Reviews

Mutilation Song by Jason Hrivnak

mdpenguin's review against another edition

DNF'd at about 20%. It's good for what it is and I like the writing style, but it started getting tedious for me. I might have plowed through this a decade ago and appreciated it even if I didn't really enjoy it, but I'd need there to be more of a point to the running narrative Dinn than just cleverly devised sickness and degradation. 

slothroptightpants's review

2.0

This book is silly. Very very silly.

Sometimes there are well written verbose and indulgent sentences, that are mostly fluff, but sound nice enough.

And then the rest is silly. Very very silly. It makes evil, violence, and depression very silly. I think there is more insight into these topics on bad Cannibal Corpse albums than there is in this book.

It would've also been nice if he refrained from the constant "I did this" "I did that" "He did this" "He felt this" method of starting sentences. It's surprisingly amateurish in that aspect but I think it's primarily due to the choice of writing it in 1st person from the demon's point of view, which is coincidentally the literal worst option as a narrator in this story.

isledinskye's review

dark emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0