Butter by Asako Yuzuki and A Certain Hunger by Chelsea Summers
Koji A. Dae
Butter by Asako Yuzuki and A Certain Hunger by Chelsea Summers
Butter by Asako Yuzuki, translated by Polly Barton
As I transition away from my serial killer obsession and into the world of cults, I decided to read one final book: The Surviving Girls by Katee Robert. I am a huge Katee Robert fan, but mostly for the Dark Olympus series. I didn’t even know she had this series of procedural romance (is that […]
Flynn is one of the modern masters of revealing the horrors of the home. Her take on serial killers is one of the best.
I’ve come full circle in this exploration of serial killers in fiction. What kicked everything off was Crushing Snails by Emma Murray, and about a year later, I’ve arrived at Murray’s next book: Shoot Me in the Face on a Beautiful Day. Once again Murray features a serial killer along with a brutal female perspective […]
The most recent serial killer book I read was A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers. The book is absolutely brilliant. 10/10, lovely writing, witty, thoughtful, sarcastic voice and just dark enough to keep my internal “horror” reader engaged. It features a middle-aged female serial killer, Dorothy, writing her tell-all memoir from the confines of […]
I started this journey with very specific types of serial killer fiction in mind. I wanted to read POV serial killer fiction with a focus on the difference through time and regarding gender. But as I read, that scope has widened and shifted. Throughout it all, the one type of book I wasn’t interested in […]
One of my favorite books of all time and definitely one of my favorite serial killer books is My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite. I originally read this back when it first came out in 2018, and it’s stuck with me since. But I did a re-listen to it this week, and I […]
Buckle in. This post is going to contain major spoilers for Iain Banks’ The Wasp Factory. And it’s one of those books that has twists that range from fairly big to huge, and the BEST way to go into the book is without knowing much about it — definitely not knowing the spoilers. Before I […]