To Be Devoured
by Sara Tantlinger
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"What does carrion taste like? Andi has to know. The vultures circling outside her home taunt and invite her to come understand the secrets hiding in their banquet of decay. Fascination morphs into an obsessive need to know what the vultures know. Andi turns to Dr. Fawning, but even the therapist cannot help her comprehend the secrets she's buried beneath anger-induced blackouts. Her girlfriend, Luna, tries to help Andi battle her inner darkness and infatuation with the vultures. However, show more the desire to taste dead flesh, to stitch together wings of her own and become one with the flock sends Andi down a twisted, unforgivable path. Once she understands the secrets the vultures conceal, she must decide between abandoning the birds of prey or risk turning her loved ones into nothing more than meals to be devoured."--Back cover show lessTags
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This novella is a case of an excellent execution transforming what could have been, in lesser hands, a bog-standard psychological horror story into something special. Tantlinger gives us an extraordinary first-person account, an unreliable (even to herself) narrator whose descent into madness may not be as gradual as it first appears. With equal parts of astute psychology and grotesquerie, this is a real winner for horror aficionados.
4.75/5
This book made me want to puke. That is a compliment.
This book made me want to puke. That is a compliment.
What’s eating you inside?
Andy’s mind is a graveyard littered with tombstones of loss.
She’s super emo with a tragic backstory and comes across as an edge lord.
Andi reminds me of Dracula’s Renfield, simpering and striving to be a revered most noble vulture. But really it’s mental illness. This felt a bit silly & extra.
If you loved the menstrual cunninglingus scene in salt blood, you’ll drool over this.
Andy’s mind is a graveyard littered with tombstones of loss.
She’s super emo with a tragic backstory and comes across as an edge lord.
Andi reminds me of Dracula’s Renfield, simpering and striving to be a revered most noble vulture. But really it’s mental illness. This felt a bit silly & extra.
If you loved the menstrual cunninglingus scene in salt blood, you’ll drool over this.
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