Recent Reads: Two Mini Horror Reviews: Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix & Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

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Two Mini Horror Reviews💀

“Power cannot be given, it must be taken. It is the ability to enact your will upon the world and it must be earned by the spilling of blood.”

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Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix, a hugely moving, fiercely feminist look at women’s rights and autonomy and the infuriating ways in which society villanized and dehumanized women and girls for the “sin” of becoming pregnant out of wedlock. Horrifying and terrifying, funny and satisfying, resonant and relevant, it’s a gory and gruesome tale of ignorance, abandonment, injustice, and cruelty; identity, loyalty, surrender, and obedience; fear, pain, truth, and lies; power, freedom, control, and sacrifice; storms, prices, books, and choices; magic, mercy, wisdom, and memories; lines, vessels, vows, and deals; and retribution, blood, life, and death.

“What he was scared of was not that maybe she was a creature who survived by drinking other people's blood. No — it was that she might push him away.”

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Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist, a grimy, grisly, graphic, and brutal story exploring numerous harrowing topics ranging from bullying and pedophilia to devotion and obsession, inhumanity and retaliation, gender and sexuality, alienation and vampirism, murder and abuse, trauma and control, and more. Set in suburban Blackeberg, Sweden, it’s at once repulsive, disturbing, and a fascinating change of pace — supremely unsettling, intensely visceral, and bleakly atmospheric.

🖤Amanda

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