Freakslaw by Jane Flett | Horror Fiction Review
I really do like reading but some of my recent choices have been bad ones for me. I believe in sharing the good, the meh and the not for me's so here's a book I should've DNF'd but didn't.
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I'm sad to say that this story which sounded perfect for me turned out to be a dud for me instead. It was a book I should've dnf'd about 1/4 of the way in but instead I kept going hoping the writing style would finally click with me, but it absolutely did not. There are tons of characters and unfortunately, I was unable to get invested in any of their stories because it all felt so incredibly disjointed and a bit boring. There are some gross moments but nothing near what I'd call shocking or "riotous". It sort of comes together in the end, but at that point I just didn't care about any of it and I had to force myself through it.
I don't know if it was a case of me or the book, but I do know that this book and I didn't get along. I'll be sad about it for a while because I was hoping it would join a place next to Geek Love. I don't know what else to say here, except maybe read Geek Love if you haven't or reread it if you're aching for this type of story.
I don't know if it was a case of me or the book, but I do know that this book and I didn't get along. I'll be sad about it for a while because I was hoping it would join a place next to Geek Love. I don't know what else to say here, except maybe read Geek Love if you haven't or reread it if you're aching for this type of story.
Final Rating: ⭐⭐
Publisher Plot Synopsis
In this riotous horror debut, a traveling carnival of troublemakers arrive in a small Scottish town and perform their favorite pastime: revenge.
It is the summer of ‘97 and the repressed Scottish town of Pitlaw is itching for change.
Enter the Freakslaw—a travelling carnival of deviant queers and architects of mayhem. There’s Gloria, fortune teller and worm charmer; her daughter Nancy, a contortionist witch; big-hearted tightrope walker, Werewolf Louie; not to mention illusionists and conjoined twins, Cass and Henry, and tattooed human pincushion, Pin Gal. Against Pitlaw’s miserably grey landscape, the carnival shines electric and bright, and it doesn’t take long for the town’s teenagers to be seduced by its neon charms and the possibility of escape.
But beneath it all, these newcomers are harboring a darker desire: revenge. Revenge for being cast out, never allowed to settle, punished for purely existing. And as tensions reach fever pitch between the stoic, unwelcoming locals and the dazzling intruders, a violence that has been bubbling for centuries is about to be unleashed . . .
Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love meets Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus in this sizzling debut by a writer as captivating as she is incisive, as wild as she is precise. Read this and try not to run away with the Freakslaw. Go on. We dare you.
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