Girl Flesh

Girl Flesh

May Leitz

Enjoyment: 3.0Quality: 3.0Characters: 3.5Plot: 3.0
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Does anyone remember Angie Kirby and Caroline Ellis? Two women, wholly enraptured in their professional lives, find themselves thrust into the Texas mesa with nowhere to go and no one to trust. Angie is a chronically timid, guilt-ridden internet writer lost in a life she didn’t choose. Caroline is an ironic, nihilistic musician, pleased to find herself away from her responsibilities. They face unknown dangers and vast darkness, lost in a place without comforts. Will they succumb to the elements or find strength in their bond enough to escape?


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  • Ghoultooth
    Mar 09, 2025
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  • oolong
    Mar 17, 2025
    Enjoyment: 3.0Quality: 3.0Characters: 3.5Plot: 3.0
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    This is my second book by May Leitz and I'm sad to say the writing style is a bit of a miss for me in this one. Sometimes it felt too clunky. Sentences could have run on a bit more, but they were chopped up awkwardly. Maybe it's a characterization thing, but it killed the flow of reading. However, Girl Flesh is an interesting story for fans of horror and fans of women (I'm both). There were some points early on and toward the end I genuinely felt scared for the two main characters and worried they were making the wrong choices at the worst time imaginable. The action and the violence were really well-written and so satisfying. I don't read a lot of romance, but the growing relationship between Angie and Caro was also really sweet and deserved without feeling rushed. If there are two things I would trust Leitz to write about, they are gay women and gore. Like others have said, the chapters of the narrator introspecting about her past dragged, I think, just a few paragraphs too long. A lot of them felt repetitive and miserable, and I would've preferred to get back to the main plot sooner. This gets better toward the end of the book and it was a quick read once the action picked back up again.

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