CN: rape, sexual assault, kidnapping. Seriously, this book is very triggering. I remember picking this book up randomly one day in a book store, thinking it was about religion. I cringed when I saw the subject matter: an attractive man kidnapped and held against his will, subject to torture and sexual menace at the hands of women. I looked it up on Goodreads and found it wasn’t considered grindhouse shock shlock, but a literary meditation on gender and power dynamics. I wasn’t confident to buy […]
Body Horror
The Book of Revelation by Rupert Thomson