Slightly odd book, this one. We follow a rather mad few months in the life of Sadie, a supermarket worker, who goes on a "roaring rampage of revenge". She has finally had enough of her co-workers, the neighbours and anyone else who happens to get in the way of her knife. Or chainsaw.
It's a meandering read, wandering from stream of consciousness murderfest, through the painful minutiae of store etiquette and back to brutal erotic scenes, with a stop off in recipes. No, seriously, the author includes plot/cadaver-relevant recipes. I haven't yet been tempted to try them.
The meandering does make it a slightly disconnected read. I'm not sure how intentional that effect was, but it did put me slightly off-kilter. It made it hard to read it as a thriller, or erotic horror or reverse whodunnit. And it did make the ending feel a little unsatisfying. You'll see why when you get there.
Recommended.
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