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hsienhsien27's review
5.0
Bonespin Slipspace is a psychedelic thriller or bizarro. It falls into the magical realist, satirical space but is also a mystery thriller where the murders are solved by the main characters, slipping into differing dimensions of reality, where the answers are found by its witness. With it's surreal Harvester style of horror - which was a pretty infamous horror game on the PC during the late 90s - it somehow manages to be a euphoric journey that is still very much in the realm of bizarro, with its dark humor and the innocent Goosebumps premise that collapsed into a body horror fest with supernatural landscapes in other dimensions that you often dream of, but wish to never visit again. What I loved about this novella was that it was much like a twist of the early, campy 80s and late 90s horror mixed with the blood spatter of today's extreme terror that I honestly don't really pay much attention to. I can't talk much about horror, because the furthest I go into the genre is Bizarro - which isn't always horror, but is most popular for that genre I think - I only read 3 Stephen King novels, and I've been getting into Japanese psychological horror video games. However this novella proves that horror fiction in book form is achievable, it is enjoyable. So if you're looking to get into bizarro literature, Bonespin Slipspace is totally in that genre, if not, close to it, so it's a great intro into the genre and if you're still interested and want short reads, I also suggest the New Bizarro Author Series, specifically, [book:The Egg Said Nothing|7530665] by Caris O'Malley. Bonespin Slipspace is a nostalgic, atmospheric and bloody, I consider it one of Robertson's best. I read it during the fall off and on, but then distracted with other things along the way, but it was one of the more memorable novels I read last year.
liisp_cvr2cvr's review
3.0
I won this book via Goodreads giveaway, so I would like to thank Leo X. Robertson for the opportunity and for posting the book out to me super quickly, This novella is definitely one of the most outstanding works on my shelf… It shall be stored on the highest of high shelves, away from the reach of young, innocent minds!
You see that cover? Look at it again… it’ll make your head spin. Yeah, you! You don’t need those shrooms tonight. Just keep staring at the cover.. there, there! …
The whole reading experience was…. it was something… I can’t really find the words. You know when there’s something happening that you don’t have the stomach for but your sadistic subconscious disables you to look away, even to close your eyes? The setting, the characters, the scenes… they’re all an image of a dirty underbelly of a filthy underbelly! Having read the authors description for the novella I can understand where he’s coming from with the background and attitudes of the characters. The youthful intrigue in all things wild, forbidden…but… dayum! In Bonespin Slipspace the norm, even the wild norm, was thrown out the window.
The writing is so descriptive and capturing that Leo has managed to take that which 99,9% of us wouldn’t admit to ever thinking of, would even dare to consider thinking of, and bravely published it into a tale that will shock, shake, disgust. As a reader you’ll be a version of Alice falling down a rabbit hole.. except you won’t land in Wonderland.. you’ll land in a nightmare of torture, sexual extremities and demons with a conclusion which feels more like a prison than a positive outcome! The story has discomfort in spades… and yet I am not entirely sure I was able to truly understand and take away the underlining meaning which I am sure author had neatly woven into the background. Maybe the shock factor caught me too much… Maybe my mind is too closed… Maybe I fell into the trap of ‘selective reading’ and got too caught up on the violence…
My rating: 3 stars. I can’t say I liked it, the whole thing, but I can admire the imagination, the reality, the idea, the bravery in publishing the darkest of the dark…
You see that cover? Look at it again… it’ll make your head spin. Yeah, you! You don’t need those shrooms tonight. Just keep staring at the cover.. there, there! …
The whole reading experience was…. it was something… I can’t really find the words. You know when there’s something happening that you don’t have the stomach for but your sadistic subconscious disables you to look away, even to close your eyes? The setting, the characters, the scenes… they’re all an image of a dirty underbelly of a filthy underbelly! Having read the authors
The writing is so descriptive and capturing that Leo has managed to take that which 99,9% of us wouldn’t admit to ever thinking of, would even dare to consider thinking of, and bravely published it into a tale that will shock, shake, disgust. As a reader you’ll be a version of Alice falling down a rabbit hole.. except you won’t land in Wonderland.. you’ll land in a nightmare of torture, sexual extremities and demons with a conclusion which feels more like a prison than a positive outcome! The story has discomfort in spades… and yet I am not entirely sure I was able to truly understand and take away the underlining meaning which I am sure author had neatly woven into the background. Maybe the shock factor caught me too much… Maybe my mind is too closed… Maybe I fell into the trap of ‘selective reading’ and got too caught up on the violence…
My rating: 3 stars. I can’t say I liked it, the whole thing, but I can admire the imagination, the reality, the idea, the bravery in publishing the darkest of the dark…
kingjason's review
5.0
This book is missing one thing it needs a small intro wherein it suggests what type of drug you should take before starting and what insane techno/metal music should be played at ear bleeding levels. I took cod-liver oil and listened to Music link
This has to be 2016's sexiest book of the year, ya know, in the way the sexy chatterer cenobite was in hellraiser. this lass....
The plot is a journey through Blackburn's manor/mind and the journey is one of the craziest things I've read. I had great fun, it was so revolting at times that I must of been pulling some odd faces...in fact maybe future readers of this should record themselves whilst reading it and then post the videos online, let's get this craze started so that one day Leo can afford his own Blackburn Manor.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this and applaud Leo for being brave/strong enough to write it.
Blog review is here> https://felcherman.wordpress.com/2018/05/29/bonespin-slipspace-by-leo-x-robertson/
This has to be 2016's sexiest book of the year, ya know, in the way the sexy chatterer cenobite was in hellraiser. this lass....
The plot is a journey through Blackburn's manor/mind and the journey is one of the craziest things I've read. I had great fun, it was so revolting at times that I must of been pulling some odd faces...in fact maybe future readers of this should record themselves whilst reading it and then post the videos online, let's get this craze started so that one day Leo can afford his own Blackburn Manor.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this and applaud Leo for being brave/strong enough to write it.
Blog review is here> https://felcherman.wordpress.com/2018/05/29/bonespin-slipspace-by-leo-x-robertson/
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