Chlorine

This book is for the body horror babes, and I felt so embraced by it! Was it gruesome and graphic, as some say? Yes! Was it still a hypnotic and compelling sapphic horror story? Yes, in my opinion, it was. Definitely not for the faint of heart or even some more low-level body horror fans, Chlorine exists for the sickos, and I'm so happy it does.

If this wasn't an audiobook I would have DNF'd by now, because honestly wth his happening. Every character is unlikeable - I have a high tolerance for unlikeable characters and often find it makes things more interesting, but this is next level. Cathy is pathetic, Ren is heartless and flat, and the men are awful caricatures of toxic masculinity. If there's a message in here somewhere, I've yet to find it.

As much as I love the mermaid themes here… the gruesome and lengthy descriptions of tampon insertion are wild. Like, I get this is body horror but this isn’t setting a horror tone at all?? Seems just gratuitous. Hoping all this weaves back into the story somehow