Yes, A Complex Accident of Life: Blackout Poetry inspired by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was yet another pick for the Ladies of Horror Fiction 2 year anniversary readathon. This book hit the prompts:
- Something Short
- An Indie Author/Press
- Book with a Fabulous Title
See all the combining I did there? 😈
Edition:
Paperback
Synopsis:
Blackout poetry inspired by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
My Thoughts:
First of all, can we please acknowledge how incredibly god damned gorgeous that cover is? Both in its original form, and my filtered version (which I think worked famously – if I may say so myself). It was created by Lynne Hanson.
I have tended to think that I don’t really dig on poetry. If this sounds at all familiar, it’s because I’m constantly prefacing glowing YA reviews with something similar. I need to stop. Because it turns out it just has to be certain poetry (or YA), and then I’m really super into it.
It turns out I love horror poetry. I love-love-love it. I can’t get enough of it.
And I have a huge gooshy weak spot for Frankenstein. And when those two are combined…you get the way I feel about this book. Like I want to cry all over it, and then clean it up really nicely and display it prominently so I can take it down whenever someone even kind of hints that they may have questions about it and smack them repeatedly in the face with it while I yell about how much I fucking love it.
I only marked off about a dozen absolute favorite pieces that I couldn’t choose my most favorite from among, so I won’t even attempt to do that.
About the Author:
(from the author’s website)
Jessica McHugh is a novelist and internationally produced playwright running amok in the fields of horror, sci-fi, young adult, and wherever else her peculiar mind leads. She’s had twenty-three books published in ten years, including her bizarro romp, “The Green Kangaroos,” her Post Mortem Press bestseller, “Rabbits in the Garden,” and her YA series, “The Darla Decker Diaries.”
Rating:
I had to buy this from Amazon, but I still don’t regret it. I may hate the seller, but I love this book, so that offsets it for me.
A Complex Accident of Life By Jessica McHugh Self Published ISBN: 9798647146519 Published: June 23, 2020 Paperback, E-book 104 Pages Author's Website
