I'll admit it, I've finally fallen back on old habits. I haven't done this all school year, but it was going to happen at some point.
The thing is, I tend to read more than one book at a time. Right now, I have four books checked out, and I managed to rush through one of the books I've already started. And by one of, I mean that I didn't read any of Big Little Lies this week. Instead, I started a book about cannibalism! Yay! I have weird tastes for a person my age. Or any person. Coincidentally, the other book I got at the school library was about combining human and animal DNA. Meanwhile, all the girls were getting romance books. I felt a little weird, but I don't care what they think, and I honestly kind of hate unironic romance books, so who cares?
So, I read The Ravenous by Amy Lukavics, which is a creepy title just on its own. Like I said when I checked it out, it's giving me serious Tokyo Ghoul vibes.
Essentially, Tokyo Ghoul is an anime set in an alternate reality in which a humanoid species, known as ghouls, exists alongside humans. They usually look like anyone else, but they have some extra abilities. The thing that sets them apart is that they can only eat humans or other ghouls (or coffee for some reason). The protagonist of the anime is a normal high schooler, but he almost dies in an accident alongside a ghoul who was about to eat him. The ghoul dies, but he survives with damaged organs, so the doctors unknowingly replace his organs with the ghoul's organs. When he wakes up, he has the instincts and appetite of a ghoul, causing him to feel psychological stress over the prospect of becoming a cannibal.
The reason this reminds me of the book is because it's literally exactly the same premise. This girl dies in an accident (this time caused by her drunk mom) and is brought back to life by some crazy (probably satanic) ritual, so that now she has to eat humans. Naturally, her sisters decide the best way to handle this once their mom disappears is to become serial killers.
I didn't get to say this before I finished it because I read it all in one week, but I totally predicted that at least one of the sisters would get eaten. Take that, Juliet! I didn't like you anyways, and you turned out to be a psychopath, so... yeah! Although getting eaten alive doesn't sound like a fun way to go. Better than getting a surprise hammer to the back of the head like her victims? Maybe?
Anyways, I didn't really like the ending. It was like the author tried to tie everything together, but still have a creepy ending, and it didn't really work for me.
There were some cool psychological horror elements, though, and also a lot of "is it possible dying sucks a lot more than religion makes us think it does?" So that was fun.
One of the parts that had a huge buildup was Rose, the girl who got brought back to life, finding out that her sisters killed two people and had... you know... fed them to her. Naturally, she had a breakdown, but the scene wasn't written that well for me. It was kind of anticlimactic. Like, she was upset, but it was written awkwardly.
Can I just say that there was a lot of blood? Lots of blood. And graphic deaths with descriptions of people gurgling and moaning but not dying. Ew.
It was kind of like a zombie book, but she still had her own personality and stuff (at least until the end when she lost her mind and ate her sister, then she was a total braindead zombie). It gave me more demon vibes than zombie, though.
I know this is getting long, but usually I have two blogs to talk about a book, and I finished this one in a week, so I just wanted to say one more thing. I get that it's supposed to be creepy and gross, but in Tokyo Ghoul, the main character is able to survive without actually killing anyone. He survives off of people who were in accidents or commited suicide. So technically speaking, Rose could have done the same thing instead of her sisters having to become serial killers. In the notes at the end, though, the author said the story was inspired by a family of serial killers, so I guess that was the point of the book.
Sorry for talking for so long!
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