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Cute Aggression
In a quiet town in Thailand, a schoolgirl’s strange obsession with her teacher is festering.
The nameless schoolgirl can’t stop thinking about her kind, young history teacher. But her fixation on him isn’t an ordinary teenage crush. She doesn’t want to be with him the way the other girls do. She wants to have him the way one wants a pet.
On the last day of the term, she abducts Teacher and keeps him strung up in the attic apartment above the one she and her half deaf-mother live in. The excitement of finally acquiring him, however, is short-lived. The botched abduction has harmed Teacher. As his days of captivity go by, he continues to deteriorate. Her desperate attempts to fix him soon devolve into acts of cruelty as she finds herself confronted by what drove her to obsess over him in the first place.
The nameless schoolgirl can’t stop thinking about her kind, young history teacher. But her fixation on him isn’t an ordinary teenage crush. She doesn’t want to be with him the way the other girls do. She wants to have him the way one wants a pet.
On the last day of the term, she abducts Teacher and keeps him strung up in the attic apartment above the one she and her half deaf-mother live in. The excitement of finally acquiring him, however, is short-lived. The botched abduction has harmed Teacher. As his days of captivity go by, he continues to deteriorate. Her desperate attempts to fix him soon devolve into acts of cruelty as she finds herself confronted by what drove her to obsess over him in the first place.
154 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 5, 2024
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August 17, 2024
She liked him the way a girl likes the posters on her wall, the singers in her favorite band, the actors on her TV. He was someone she could look at, but someone who wasn’t meant to look back at her.
This is a story of deranged obsession. An obsession so deep— that a young schoolgirl believes her only reason for existence is to see Teacher.
And at sixteen years old, she’s tired of just spying on Teacher. After four years of snooping and incessant voyeurism— our unnamed student would like to acquire him.
Keep him as a pet, maybe?
So on the last day of the school term, she beats him with a hammer into unconsciousness and holds him hostage in the vacant attic apartment above the one she shares with her mother.
But in the span of just a few days— things begin to go wrong. Our depraved schoolgirl’s obsession begins to dwindle as she realizes Teacher is more than his pristine beauty— but a human in a state of absolute suffering. A human with a body that is capable of obtaining extreme wounds, can bleed and ooze, urinate and vomit, slip in and out of consciousness… and rot. With the condition Teacher is put in by this student, he’s alive— but decaying before her eyes.
He is just a pile of meat.
And as schoolgirl realizes this, her obsession becomes something like disgust mixed with anger. She begins to make things worse— losing her mind and resorting to excruciating violence when she recognizes Teacher is no longer the perfect pet.
When reading books on obsession, you often don’t get a plot where the obsessor eventually falls out of their constant preoccupation. I thought it was very creative of Emily Lynn to take a common trope in horror and spin it. You get to watch the main character dwindle and spiral— contemplating with herself while at the same time, torturing an innocent victim.
At first, I wasn’t into the writing style. But as the book progressed, I got into it more. The story really took off.
It’s a fairly vivid read— and has many descriptive body horror elements. I thought those scenes were written well, and at times it made me feel pretty disgusted. Great job there, for sure!
I’m definitely an Emily Lynn fan now, and I’m looking forward to more in the future. ★ ★ ★ ★ out of five stars for me.
This is a story of deranged obsession. An obsession so deep— that a young schoolgirl believes her only reason for existence is to see Teacher.
And at sixteen years old, she’s tired of just spying on Teacher. After four years of snooping and incessant voyeurism— our unnamed student would like to acquire him.
Keep him as a pet, maybe?
So on the last day of the school term, she beats him with a hammer into unconsciousness and holds him hostage in the vacant attic apartment above the one she shares with her mother.
But in the span of just a few days— things begin to go wrong. Our depraved schoolgirl’s obsession begins to dwindle as she realizes Teacher is more than his pristine beauty— but a human in a state of absolute suffering. A human with a body that is capable of obtaining extreme wounds, can bleed and ooze, urinate and vomit, slip in and out of consciousness… and rot. With the condition Teacher is put in by this student, he’s alive— but decaying before her eyes.
He is just a pile of meat.
And as schoolgirl realizes this, her obsession becomes something like disgust mixed with anger. She begins to make things worse— losing her mind and resorting to excruciating violence when she recognizes Teacher is no longer the perfect pet.
When reading books on obsession, you often don’t get a plot where the obsessor eventually falls out of their constant preoccupation. I thought it was very creative of Emily Lynn to take a common trope in horror and spin it. You get to watch the main character dwindle and spiral— contemplating with herself while at the same time, torturing an innocent victim.
At first, I wasn’t into the writing style. But as the book progressed, I got into it more. The story really took off.
It’s a fairly vivid read— and has many descriptive body horror elements. I thought those scenes were written well, and at times it made me feel pretty disgusted. Great job there, for sure!
I’m definitely an Emily Lynn fan now, and I’m looking forward to more in the future. ★ ★ ★ ★ out of five stars for me.
September 22, 2026
My journey to read more self-published writers continues (technically, this was published by Grindhouse Press but it’s essentially the same thing) This is another predictably transgressive novel (which self-published writers tend to like). I’ve also noticed that very attractive people (Emily Lynn is a cutie indeed) seem to be fixated with this particular subject matter, possibly due to some innate sense of resentment regarding a world that is obsessed with their flesh. Dunno.
Anyway, the story is very basic and concerns a teenage girl who is infatuated with her male schoolteacher to the extent that she wants to own him, like a pet. Or something. She’s not entirely sure herself. The book opens with an intriguing section where she bludgeons him with a hammer with the intent of knocking him unconscious, but this fails and she runs away. Later she tries again and succeeds, dragging his body home and tying him up without any real objective in mind. Soon enough, he begins to experience further bodily torture and loses many teeth, gets accidentally cut (his tongue in particular) and has burns on his legs from having a hot grill thrown at him. By the end of the book, she is literally consuming his flesh.
I mean, it’s not terrible. Like most first time writers Emily Lynn has made the mistake of thinking that her short story is a novel. It isn’t. It’s barely even a novella. She starts the novel with a failed attempt precisely because she needs to drag this story out and even when things do get going, she has descriptions of events sprawling over several pages when brevity, and a couple of paragraphs, would have sufficed. The premise is interesting but utterly wafer thin, certainly not enough for a novel, and aside from a few sections where she works in a factory with her mum gutting fish, the plot essentially focuses on the capture and treatment of her victim. There’s just not enough to make that interesting over so many pages. It needed to be much shorter.
As for the transgressive aspects, they’re reasonably effective. I would not recommend this to the squeamish, for example, the cruelty she (almost) inadvertently displays and the physical torture she inflicts upon the teacher being quite gruesome. All of that is very nicely done and curiously, becomes even morbidly fascinating at times, but again, this should have been presented as a single short story amid a collection of other short stories. There’s too much filler for it to be a novel. 2.6
Anyway, the story is very basic and concerns a teenage girl who is infatuated with her male schoolteacher to the extent that she wants to own him, like a pet. Or something. She’s not entirely sure herself. The book opens with an intriguing section where she bludgeons him with a hammer with the intent of knocking him unconscious, but this fails and she runs away. Later she tries again and succeeds, dragging his body home and tying him up without any real objective in mind. Soon enough, he begins to experience further bodily torture and loses many teeth, gets accidentally cut (his tongue in particular) and has burns on his legs from having a hot grill thrown at him. By the end of the book, she is literally consuming his flesh.
I mean, it’s not terrible. Like most first time writers Emily Lynn has made the mistake of thinking that her short story is a novel. It isn’t. It’s barely even a novella. She starts the novel with a failed attempt precisely because she needs to drag this story out and even when things do get going, she has descriptions of events sprawling over several pages when brevity, and a couple of paragraphs, would have sufficed. The premise is interesting but utterly wafer thin, certainly not enough for a novel, and aside from a few sections where she works in a factory with her mum gutting fish, the plot essentially focuses on the capture and treatment of her victim. There’s just not enough to make that interesting over so many pages. It needed to be much shorter.
As for the transgressive aspects, they’re reasonably effective. I would not recommend this to the squeamish, for example, the cruelty she (almost) inadvertently displays and the physical torture she inflicts upon the teacher being quite gruesome. All of that is very nicely done and curiously, becomes even morbidly fascinating at times, but again, this should have been presented as a single short story amid a collection of other short stories. There’s too much filler for it to be a novel. 2.6
February 1, 2025
This debut needs way more of an audience. This is a disturbing well written novella about a Sociopath set in Thailand. Warning: This is a very graphic story.
April 5, 2024
An amazing debut. Smart, dark, and profoundly disturbing.
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July 29, 2026I found this author’s YouTube channel recently and her videos are great! So when I found out she wrote a book, I had to read it!
I binged 81% of this book in one day, which was a mistake because this book messed me up bad lol. I could not sleep and it was on my mind all night. This book is very graphic, gruesome and deeply unsettling. I love the horror genre and am typically unphased by books, but this was so effective that the writing and imagery was making my stomach hurt and upsetting me. It reminded me a lot of the movie “The Eyes of My Mother” and that movie disturbed me so bad I was genuinely terrified for days and it took a long time to get over it. This book gave me the same feeling of panic, hopelessness and shock at how evil people can be to one another.
This book takes obsession and possession of another person to the next level. Instead of having a normal crush on her history teacher, the main character wants to keep him almost as a pet. She doesn’t think she is harming him but in a matter of days, he is physically deteriorating. Then after she has control of him, she doesn’t want him anymore because he doesn’t live up to her expectations of what she imagines him to be.
The scariest part for me is how one second everything is normal and life is as it is and the next second someone changes your life with one violent act and there is nothing you can do other than suffer until you die. In this case, the violent act is so horrific that the teacher is literally wasting away and suffering such unimaginable pain. Beyond the physical pain and torture, all I could think about was the mental distress and suffering the teacher experienced and how even if he lived, he would never be the same. I spent the entire book wanting him to die already so he could be at peace. Another horrific element of the story is everyone’s lack of awareness. No one realized the harassment the teacher faced from his students or fellow teachers. No one could hear his screaming and crying for help and no one could smell him dying right under their noses. Or they did notice but didn’t do anything, which is even worse. Smell and sweat was also a recurring theme in this story which made everything more graphic and disturbing. And the ending … I like how it was left up to interpretation but did Teacher die????? because he needs to stop hurting PLEASE! I love how you don’t know what is real and what is the main character’s hallucinations. The descriptions in this book were so depraved that my wrists hurt at the end of the book from the wrist scenes.
I feel like I can’t express the bleakness of this book properly but the idea of someone suffering the way this teacher did is genuinely unfathomable and makes me nauseous. That said, for a book to make me feel this way means the author is an incredible storyteller and I’m so impressed that this is a debut novel. I will absolutely be reading her future works!
More like a 4 star rating but because I can’t stop thinking about it, 5 stars!
I binged 81% of this book in one day, which was a mistake because this book messed me up bad lol. I could not sleep and it was on my mind all night. This book is very graphic, gruesome and deeply unsettling. I love the horror genre and am typically unphased by books, but this was so effective that the writing and imagery was making my stomach hurt and upsetting me. It reminded me a lot of the movie “The Eyes of My Mother” and that movie disturbed me so bad I was genuinely terrified for days and it took a long time to get over it. This book gave me the same feeling of panic, hopelessness and shock at how evil people can be to one another.
This book takes obsession and possession of another person to the next level. Instead of having a normal crush on her history teacher, the main character wants to keep him almost as a pet. She doesn’t think she is harming him but in a matter of days, he is physically deteriorating. Then after she has control of him, she doesn’t want him anymore because he doesn’t live up to her expectations of what she imagines him to be.
The scariest part for me is how one second everything is normal and life is as it is and the next second someone changes your life with one violent act and there is nothing you can do other than suffer until you die. In this case, the violent act is so horrific that the teacher is literally wasting away and suffering such unimaginable pain. Beyond the physical pain and torture, all I could think about was the mental distress and suffering the teacher experienced and how even if he lived, he would never be the same. I spent the entire book wanting him to die already so he could be at peace. Another horrific element of the story is everyone’s lack of awareness. No one realized the harassment the teacher faced from his students or fellow teachers. No one could hear his screaming and crying for help and no one could smell him dying right under their noses. Or they did notice but didn’t do anything, which is even worse. Smell and sweat was also a recurring theme in this story which made everything more graphic and disturbing. And the ending … I like how it was left up to interpretation but did Teacher die????? because he needs to stop hurting PLEASE! I love how you don’t know what is real and what is the main character’s hallucinations. The descriptions in this book were so depraved that my wrists hurt at the end of the book from the wrist scenes.
I feel like I can’t express the bleakness of this book properly but the idea of someone suffering the way this teacher did is genuinely unfathomable and makes me nauseous. That said, for a book to make me feel this way means the author is an incredible storyteller and I’m so impressed that this is a debut novel. I will absolutely be reading her future works!
More like a 4 star rating but because I can’t stop thinking about it, 5 stars!
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August 9, 2026
I picked this up because I found the author's Youtube recently and I really enjoyed her content. So when she mentioned that she'd actually published her own work, I was excited to check it out. And what a trip this was. I'm surprised that this was a debut novel. The gore in here was some of the best I've read in a while. I had to take a few break during Part 2 because some of the scenes were making me feel nauseous, but none of it felt out of place or overly gratuitous. It all had its necessary place in the story.
May 4, 2026
"She maneuvered unseen between the flow of students. She became more invisible with each person she passed."
"She remembered she had eyelids."
"There was a smell. It smelled like a bathroom. It reeked not of sh*t , but of skin_ years of exfoliated skin trapped in a shower drain."
"She got a shock from seeing her reflection . She always did. She often forgot she was a person at all, and the sudden reminder was always disturbing."
"She remembered she had eyelids."
"There was a smell. It smelled like a bathroom. It reeked not of sh*t , but of skin_ years of exfoliated skin trapped in a shower drain."
"She got a shock from seeing her reflection . She always did. She often forgot she was a person at all, and the sudden reminder was always disturbing."
July 28, 2024
This was my first time reading a book in this genre and it was so good! The writing was so descriptive and vivid I had to take a break at times. This book kept me on the edge of my seat the whole way through!
April 2, 2024
I couldn’t put this book down. The slow disconnection from her obsession was fascinating to watch play out. I felt tense throughout the entire book. Absolute madness. Loved it. Can’t wait to read more by Emily!
April 24, 2026
I was totally blown away by Emily Lynn's debut novel Cute Aggression! It's a gender-swapped story about objectification and sexualized violence. The nameless narrator is a schoolgirl in Thailand who likes to look at Teacher, but does not want to be looked at. She wants him, but only a version of him that lives in her head. When she actually acquires him (by force), she becomes disgusted by how human he is. That he poops and pees and vomits and bleeds. That he is meat; just meat like the fish she filets with her mother in the canning factory. Then she becomes angry at Teacher.
The prose is wet and viscous and you can feel Narrator's guts sloshing and writhing as she commits horrific acts of violence and feels an aching, unhinged disappointment in all of it.
There's so much powerful imagery in this story but I don't want to give too much away. Right now it only has seven reviews on Amazon and it should be way higher than that. Everyone needs to read this book NOW!
If you want a killer feminist book, this is it!
The prose is wet and viscous and you can feel Narrator's guts sloshing and writhing as she commits horrific acts of violence and feels an aching, unhinged disappointment in all of it.
There's so much powerful imagery in this story but I don't want to give too much away. Right now it only has seven reviews on Amazon and it should be way higher than that. Everyone needs to read this book NOW!
If you want a killer feminist book, this is it!
April 14, 2024
Very imaginative plot. Amazing and difficult book to write. Throughout the novel, Lynn. describes what the main character, a disturbed teenage girl, is experiencing as she carries out her horrific, yet, strangely enough, well meaning acts. It is definitely a page turner and , since it's only around 150 pages, it can be easily read in one or two sittings.
May 19, 2024
Reading this was so stressful but it is so well-written and intriguing that I had to keep turning the page. The things poor Teacher endures while he's trapped in the attic are awful. :( I look forward to reading more stuff by Emily Lynn.
September 26, 2026
This is body horror in a story about a girls’ obsessed with her unfortunate teacher. It was slow at first, but then it really took off and ruined my appetite for a few evenings. Well done.
October 5, 2026
all my praise to the author for being able to write the protagonist the way she did; the way the protagonist denies hurting teacher even tho he is hanging and decaying… bruh.
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