Other times, I step back and collect my thoughts before my word vomit comes out on the screen. I never know how to begin reviews most of the time I want to fan-girl or go off on rants right away. This review can also be found at A Take From Two Cities. ** I received an ARC from the publisher (thank you!) in exchange for an honest review. Normally my one-stars are very distinctly in the "I hated this" category but this didn't inspire hate. winsome, even almost endearing, on the whole I just don't know what to do with this whole experience. While it is doubtlessly creative and sometimes the weirdness was. I don't think books with heavier subject matter or darkness need a happy ending but sometimes there's something. I feel even stranger about the whole experience. I expected, from the pitch, that this was to be all kinds of strange and dark and surreal but after a certain reveal.
But in broad strokes we have violence (various types, including gun violence), body horror and gore (again, a variety), bullying (you guessed it, various kinds), and more. I think Zappia and I have to part ways.įirst off, the list of triggers for this book are rather plentiful, so please go find a full list. I've gone from loving ELIZA AND HER MONSTERS, my first experience with this author, to being perplexed and uncertain of how I felt (MADE YOU UP) to truly actively disliking everything else (NOW ENTERING ADDAMSVILLE and, of course, this one). Fans of Marieke Nijkamp's This Is Where It Ends and Karen McManus's One of Us Is Lying will lose themselves in the pages of this novel-or maybe in the treacherous hallways of the school. Using chapters alternating between the past and the present, acclaimed author Francesca Zappia weaves a spine-tingling, suspenseful, and haunting story about tragedy and the power of memories. And to do that, she'll have to remember what put her there in the first place. But to save herself from the eventual self-destruction all the students face, Cat must find the way out.
Escaping has always been the one impossibility in her school's upside-down world. Cat's best friend is slowly turning into cardboard, and instead of a face, Cat has a cat mask made of her own hardened flesh.Ĭat doesn't remember why she is trapped in her school or why half of them-Cat included-are slowly transforming. The hallways contract and expand along with the school's breathing, and the showers in the bathroom run a bloody red. She never leaves, and for a long time her school has provided her with everything she needs.
Lockhart's We Were Liars.Ĭat lives in her high school. Katzenjammer will haunt fans of Chelsea Pitcher's This Lie Will Kill You and E. A tale of family, love, tragedy, and masks-the ones others make for us, and the ones we make for ourselves. American Horror Story meets the dark comedy of Kafka's The Metamorphosis as Cat searches for a way to escape her high school.
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