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pocket sized extreme horror for when you wanna get fucked up while travelling on an airplane while also making your fellow passengers uneasy 👏 it’s short, sweet and disgusting with a female protagonist giving the abuser hell for a change — i won’t say more because it’ll give too much away though!

definitely necessary to check all the content warning for this one but if you read extreme horror on a daily basis it’s nothing new except it’s definitely a change in who is abused compared to the regular ol’ extreme horror that’s out there.

this is just as amazing as the first book and i’m down baaaad for reggie. he’s the absolute best character in every single way! 

jenna levine manages to capture all the best tropes from fake dating to ‘there’s only one bed!!!’ while making it feel wholly original and entertaining. it’s also got a bit of spice 🌶️ maybe in more quantifies than the first one even? 

it’s definitely impossible to put down as soon as you start it and i finished it within two days completely ignoring my life while fully immersed in reggie and amelia’s fake to real dating!!! 

i usually enjoy anthologies and short story collections but this one did feel like a chore to get through — most of the stories weren’t that exciting and i did end up skipping a few. which i usually don’t like doing. but i don’t think i’d ever have finished this if i hadn’t. 

some of the stories were genuinely very good and i think id have enjoyed reading them outside of the anthology collection. 

teeth by stephen graham jones 

unkindly girls by hailey piper 

cavity by theresa delucci 

one of these nights by livia llewellyn

the donner party by dale bailey

a sunny disposition by josh malerman

but as a whole i don’t think it worked for me. which is a shame because the idea behind it was really interesting and there’s a bunch of great authors in the mix. 

/// ARC courtesy of tachyon publications and netgalley. 

this feels like the boy version of death valley by melissa broder but with an absolute ass of a main character. the author narrating it himself was on point and i can’t imagine anyone else doing whale noises as well as him. 

it felt like a hilarious fever dream — big fan of the uncertainty of it all, random lost fights and whale noises, and general confusion? definitely worth a listen although i agree with the weird amount of gay jokes (gotta be honest, i just assumed the author was gay but who knows????). 

kender i det at man læser en bog fordi vennen til ens kollega har skrevet den? det kunne ende ret dårligt, men hyldemeter var ret så hyggelig at komme igennem og den var langtfra skuffende. 

der bliver leget med sproget og menneskelige relationer og slutningen af hyldemeter var *chef’s kiss* — det var sådan lidt prikke over i’et på et ellers finurligt og vellykket værk. 

what a disappointing reading experience — snow was extremely bland and collins really failed to make you feel any emotions, positive or negative, towards him? like i don’t believe people saying this book is so much better than the film because you get all his inner thoughts like lmao what thoughts? that dude is head empty fr

i might have liked it better if i hadn’t listened to the audiobook but coming from listening to tatiana maslany passionately reading the original trilogy to sabrina fontana bringing nothing to his reading was sooooo disappointing — this dude acts in plays and musicals, yet he monotonously reads all of of the songs like he can’t wait to haul ass out of the studio? he also cannot do distinct voices for shit and either it’s him or collins but the chemistry between lucy and snow was next to zero. like it’s literally ‘go girl give us nothing’. if either one had died, i simply would not have felt it made a difference? i mean i guess snow helped build the hunger games to what it is in the trilogy but it’s shocking his underdeveloped teenage brain could do that when everything else seems coincidental at best. 

anyway, maybe this book wasn’t necessary or maybe i won’t dislike it so much if i ever read the paperback/ebook but in the meantime i guess ill check out the film?????

MUS har ret stor potentiale og den rammer egentlig ret plet med dens satiriske take på den moderne arbejdsplads — især manglen af værdi gennem ens arbejde. Der hvor den falder fra er desværre hvor Instagram agtige jokes tager alt for meget overhånd og bliver bare en tand for meget. 

Det er dog en ret vellykket debut og jeg grinte 100% højlydt i toget ved et bestemt punkt henimod slutningen. Så jeg er helt sikkert åben til at læse mere af Sebastian Lynggard i fremtiden 🙌