I never write reviews, I had to for this one.

If Clive Barker and Dante had a baby, and it wrote the Wizard of Oz in Hell, it would be this book. I found this book disgusting and could not stop listening.

This book is visceral: read the trigger warnings and be wary if body horror is too much for you. The descriptions are traumatic and terrifying. The main character, Nick, goes from unlikable to loathsome and I still couldn’t help rooting for him. He is at one moment tragic, in another, resilient, pure evil and pure hope.

The narrator is perfection.

I’m the kind of person where nothing scares me. I haven’t found a book labeled horror that frightened me since I was a child. I picked this up blindly and listened while doing yard work with surround sound headphones and worked until it got dark, and kept going because I was in it. Then I met Muck and scared the sh!t out of myself in the woods, in the pitch black. I had to stop listening for two days. I’m glad I finished and can’t wait for the next book. The only audio book close to this is the surround sound version of The Mist.

A must read for all you sickos out there.