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After a second read, this book is still disturbing. The unusual prose style and choppy sentences may be irritating for some readers, but I found the writing very stylish, poetic, and sensual, evoking images and sensation, vividly portraying Tess' emotional pain, burning like the metal she controls and shapes to her will, and her friend, partner, lover, Bibi's gradual descent into madness.
Skin is very different from other horror books -- no creepy, supernatural happenin ...more
After a second read, this book is still disturbing. The unusual prose style and choppy sentences may be irritating for some readers, but I found the writing very stylish, poetic, and sensual, evoking images and sensation, vividly portraying Tess' emotional pain, burning like the metal she controls and shapes to her will, and her friend, partner, lover, Bibi's gradual descent into madness.
Skin is very different from other horror books -- no creepy, supernatural happenin ...more
I loved this book. Most of her other stuff veers a little too far into the horror realm for me, but I loved the descriptions of the sculptures.
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