Anna’s Reviews > Victorian Psycho > Status Update

All of the sudden in the last 3 pages I’ve noticed 3 instances of clunky writing: “trailing a trail of thick blood”

“the line of carriages, as shiny as exotic exoskeletons, line the drive”

“the air teeming with chatter that makes its way through the air”

I haven’t noticed it at all up until this point, maybe it’s purposeful but also it’s distracting

“I wonder what all the fuss with children is about. They’re only people, albeit smaller. Why care about people when they’re small if no one cares about them when they’re grown?”

Yes she LITERALLY means why care about children (in reference to the Factory Act) but I feel the author is calling out the hypocrisy that still exists in legislation today (cough cough, the overturning of roe v wade), I love it

Okay first I believe we’ve had two references to the Yellow Wallpaper and second, this is already so WTF. “When both children are asleep, I lick their little fingertips, one by one, and blow out the candles.” This and she took a bite from the snout of a cow’s head and she potentially hears ghosts but maybe not? Again: WTF

“It is early fall, the cold is beginning to descend, and in three months everyone in this house will be dead.”

YAYYYYY following The Fourth Wife with another horror set in the 1800s, but my understanding is that this is a straight up slasher (I could be wrong, we’ll see). I don’t think I’ve read a slasher before so I’m excited despite the somewhat low average rating