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[nobodysyou]

julie crews riding the train covered in gore you will Always be famous

[drowninginabactatank]

Finished The Dead Take the A Train by Cassandra Khaw and Richard Kadrey today.

Absolutely loved this sapphic gore-gous book with delicious descriptions of body horror from Khaw that hit every time! Definitely a new fav and I cannot wait for the next book in the Carrion City series! I highly recommend this if you have the stomach for it 😘

[enchantingruinscandy]

oooooh you wanna read the dead take the a train so bad

its the first horror book ive ever read and honestly its set a high bar for the horror genre, and there's a sequel coming!

first of all, its very sapphic and has lots of pining and getting rid of abusive exes

second, the main character is a badass. she a monster hunter for hire who's always struggling financially bc ppl dont pay her, shes sarcastic, and she she uses magic in her work (not high fantasy kind of magic tho). (if you need a character comparison to help with the mantal image then id say shes kind of like john constantine.)

THIRD, theres a lot of monsters and body horror and an overall sense of something WRONG going on. the whole time i was waiting for the other shoe to drop (and it did)

fourth, there are fantastic side characters who make the story so much better (where would we be without them)

and fifth ill put under a read more bc it is a spoiler

FIFTH! there are no angels. i dislike seeing them in books woth demons and there are none in this one, i promise.

[nobodysyou]

j crew ita bag featuring my own art (because it’s the only existing art of her)

[nobodysyou]

thinks about julie crews again fuck

[nobodysyou]

another day another J. Crew

[nobodysyou]

fuck you. julie crews png.

[nobodysyou]

as much as i enjoyed the little domestic moment we got in the last chapter, i hope the next book gets into the storm after the calm. the nightmares and the anxiety and the "never being clean again" and the guilt and the worry and the idk. it's great to see that julie has a new lust for life or whatever but she's never going to unsee sarah's eyes widening in horror as she [redacted] and sarah is never going to unsee her [redacting].

cutting back on unhealthy coping mechanisms is great and all in theory but what about the fact that they were helping her cope??? what about the fact that if julie isn't drinking herself blind she can see, if she's not drugging herself numb she can feel?? not to mention sarah, still processing the death and viscera she's seen, "viscera" being an understatement, i want to see her when the dust settles and she takes a look around and this is her life now.

i want to see two people that have been so, so alone since each other, finally be together, and i want to see how messy and fucked up and devastating it is. i want to see arms around each other and needing time alone and sit with me while i shower and wake me up because you can't sleep, you can't even close your eyes.