Sow by Tim Curran
My rating: 3/5 cats
i’ll give you a second to read the description of the book:
Holly is not herself.
She was once a pretty young woman, healthy and strong, completely devoted to her husband Richard. When she became pregnant, he was ecstatic. They would finally have a child to complete their love.
But then Holly began to change.
She began reading strange, old books and consorting with a mysterious midwife named Mrs. Crouch. Day by day, she becomes less like the woman Richard married, slowly degenerating into something evil and monstrous.
The child she carries is not his. In fact, it’s not even human.
Holly is about to unleash hell into the world.
in another author’s hands, this could have easily become a psychological suspense-y type book springing from that male discomfort with the feminine mystery of fertility and childbirth, and the fear of impending fatherhood and its responsibilities, where there might be an ambiguous disconnect between what he “sees” and what really “is.” is he going mad, or has his wife in fact turned into a giant pig-creature with a terrifying number of nipples and a demon watchdog-creature glowering malevolently nearby??? do others see what he sees, or is this all simply delusion?
but not with tim curran.
tim curran writes about giant worms coming up out of the sewer to kill people through their genitals, after all.
he’s not going to be coy.
this is not anything more than what it appears to be on the surface: a woman turned into an incubator for a dark and ancient power. a dark and ancient power that will not let anything prevent it from being born, least of all some puny human who has been rather foolishly attached to the body of his wife before it got taken over by the eeeevil. silly puny human. you, your friends, your furniture, your genitals…none are safe from THE SOW!!
wonderful sicko fun.
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