Exquisite corpse - by Poppy Z Brite
Since I've been feeling a bit morbid latley, what could be better than to throw yourself heedlessly into Brite's world of drugs, blood and insanity?
Not for the faint of heart or easily queesy stomach. Do not read and eat at the same time.
Canibalism, necrophilism, rape and bodily fluids.
Slight spoilers ahead.
'Exquisite corpse' is not strictly a Fantasy. It is a tale of two serial killers - Andrew Compton in England and Jay Byrne in New Orleans (the book was published in 1996, New Orleans still existed). Andrew has been caught by police after his 17 murdered young boy, but Jay is still at large in New Orelans, carefully killing only strays and runaways and then eating their bodies.
But when Jay meets Tran, a young Vietnamese boy, something changes. Tran, not knowing what Jay is, wants to stay with Jay, wants to love him. This is a concept very strange for Jay, and all he knows is that he doesn't want to hurt Tran. Things get even more complicated as Tran's former lover, the now AIDS sick and boardering on insane writer Luke starts to track Tran down to rescue him from the creepy Jay.
In the mean time, Andrew escapes and makes his way to New Orleans - by chance. These two predators of the night is drawn towards each other and chare a killing frenzy in wich they finally find someone to hone their skills with, and to teach them new things. Andrew lerns canibalism, Jay lerns that he doesn't have to be alone.
But what happends when Andrew wants to eat Tran?
Since I've been feeling a bit morbid latley, what could be better than to throw yourself heedlessly into Brite's world of drugs, blood and insanity?
Not for the faint of heart or easily queesy stomach. Do not read and eat at the same time.
Canibalism, necrophilism, rape and bodily fluids.
Slight spoilers ahead.
'Exquisite corpse' is not strictly a Fantasy. It is a tale of two serial killers - Andrew Compton in England and Jay Byrne in New Orleans (the book was published in 1996, New Orleans still existed). Andrew has been caught by police after his 17 murdered young boy, but Jay is still at large in New Orelans, carefully killing only strays and runaways and then eating their bodies.
But when Jay meets Tran, a young Vietnamese boy, something changes. Tran, not knowing what Jay is, wants to stay with Jay, wants to love him. This is a concept very strange for Jay, and all he knows is that he doesn't want to hurt Tran. Things get even more complicated as Tran's former lover, the now AIDS sick and boardering on insane writer Luke starts to track Tran down to rescue him from the creepy Jay.
In the mean time, Andrew escapes and makes his way to New Orleans - by chance. These two predators of the night is drawn towards each other and chare a killing frenzy in wich they finally find someone to hone their skills with, and to teach them new things. Andrew lerns canibalism, Jay lerns that he doesn't have to be alone.
But what happends when Andrew wants to eat Tran?
The concept of a perfect killer is not new, but can there be such a thing as the perfect victim?
Unpredictable, gory, disgusting - a book to devour.
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3 comments:
"...a book to devour" - nice one Susanna :-)
indeed! fast perfect victims...*ick* sätter fart på en del hjärnvindlingar man helst inte vill öppna...
Inte mitt uttryck, alas. Men visst är den bra.
Perfekta offer - nja, kanske om man själv är en perfekt mördare kan man se det så. Vi andra misstänker väl att det bara är stackare som råkar vara på fel ställe vid fel tillfälle.
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