Moonflow

I have a lot of mixed feelings about Moonflow because, on the one hand, it's fascinating and enticing. It's about scary forest monsters and cults and fetishes. It has great humor and crazy-imaginative descriptions of the drug-induced experiences happening to the characters. Each plotline was great to read.

However, in the third act, when it's all coming together, I feel like it spun out of control. That's probably what Karella was going for, but it felt repetitive, and then it got boring. I wasn't scared or interested. I was grossed out.

In a lot of ways, it felt like the author was trying to push buttons. The transphobia; the fatphobia; having over-the-top stupid, abusive cops; having lesbians obsessed with sex to the point that they all seem to also have no problem fucking men. I just didn't really get the point of it all? Maybe there is no point. It's just psychedelic, and antagonistic/provocative for the attention. In any case, I never once felt scared or unnerved. Everything was just gross.

But again, I was interested in what was going to happen and kept reading. That's something. The writing itself and the humor were excellent.

CW: Many things. Go into this book cautiously. To begin with: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Body shaming, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Gore, Sexual content, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Threat of Rape