Booksology But when a stranger enters a safe space, everything changes for the members of the monastery. Lucia is different from the others our narrator has ever met. The longer they spend together, the more our narrators begin to question the system that works in sacred sisterhood. Certainly the outside world is terrible, but is life much better here? Is there a life of joy and love somewhere?
It’s worthless It’s a merciless, apocalyptic horror with 175 pages. I read the entire book at once. I cried many times. And on the last page I felt completely shattered and unstable. This is a book I had to sit with to really think about my feelings, and the more I think about it, the more I love it. The prose is poetic, but the plot moves quickly too. This will not let you hold your breath until you reach the last page.
If you like Bazterrica’s other works, you will find the same disturbing image and thought-provoking commentary about classification and environmental issues that have come to expect from this author. If you’re new to Bazterrica, this short but impactful novel perfectly exemplifies what this horror subgenre can achieve when done perfectly well.
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