Romain Rey’s Reviews > The Butcher of the Forest > Status Update

This novel perfectly illustrates how a well-worn and overused theme can be revitalized through skillful writing.

The sentences, like delicate lace, unfold poetically across the pages, transforming the dark atmosphere into a controlled and aesthetically pleasing horror. The author exploits the genre's inherent gore with an almost chaste economy of words, keeping the story's rhythm and strangeness front and center.