For a while, this author was popular and not in a positive way. Before this story, I read his short stories "Pizza Face" and "Rotten Eggs" and I liked them. And when I started reading this story, I couldn't finish it for two days. No, not because it was very disgusting, but because it was very boring.
Plot
Vera works as a door salesman (or as they are called, in short, those who go from house to house and sell things) and sells vacuum cleaners. And so she gets into the house of a very evil man who kidnaps her and keeps her in his dirty house and now she has to survive.
The very concept of the plot is promising, but how everything was ruined. I'll start with the fact that I liked the second chapter, which tells about the childhood of the main character. Here we understand why she is so clean. But here's the rest… When the heroine gets to a Slob, everything becomes boring. The scenes of cruelty did not cause disgust, but laughter because of how absurd they were. I can see the author printing it with the thought: "Oh, how sick they will be of this scene, we need to make it even tougher *rat laughter*." And keep in mind that the book is short, and the pace is too fast and because of that I can't feel the hopelessness of the situation, because everything is built like this: a violent scene, escape actions, a tough scene, the end. I'm not kidding, that's how the action in the book happens.
And the final twist is very stupid and absurd, because attention >! Gay cannibals, with the help of a Slob, kill women, eat them and thus want to reduce their numbers and adopt the best qualities of women.! Putting aside the ethical side, this twist is too out of place in the atmosphere of the whole book and makes it even worse.
Character
The main character is Vera and she is very boring. She has her own drama, but she remained in an embryonic position and did not develop in any way. And the funny thing is that this is the only thing that can be said about her, because this character is empty.
Antagonist
He's very bad. His appearance is so cartoonishly disgusting that Ayn Rand would have told him it was too much. And he's boring. Who he is, why he is like this is unknown. Just a disgusting guy doing disgusting things.
Text
I am like a person whose native language is not English, I have read in an amateur translation. And if the original has the same horror, then it's terrible. The heroine often talked about herself in a masculine way, and the author's writing style is very bad. Reading it, I had two states: "What are you talking about" and "Use simple words for simple actions." Instead of writing "blood" he writes "red" and so constantly. And his understanding of female anatomy is so bad that I remembered a quote from the VanossGaming channel video where he played Phasmophobia: "I can't believe you have a child." But at least it was easy to read.
In total, I am disappointed with the book, I at least hoped that it would be so bad that it is good, but it is just bad. The only advantage here is the illustrations, they are well drawn (except for the second one) and were more frightening. The author should have been an illustrator, not a writer.
by mystery5009