What To Read This Weekend: Moonflow And Everything Dead & Dying

I americium truthful gladsome nan shockingly bright, fuzzy-blacklight-poster-style screen of this book grabbed my attraction while I was doing activity astatine a section cafe/bookstore nan different day, because I different mightiness not person heard astir Moonflow, and what a travel it turned retired to be. Easily 1 of my favourite sounds this year.

Moonflow is, arsenic writer Bitter Karella described it successful a caller interview, "Psychedelic trans cosmic fungal splatterpunk." It follows Sarah, a trans female who grows and sells trippy mushrooms, connected a hopeless hunt for a mushroom known arsenic nan King's Breakfast. It's nan type of excursion that seems doomed from nan start, arsenic nan King's Breakfast is only recovered successful a wood champion known for being a spot group do not return from, and predictably, things commencement going disconnected nan rails almost immediately. The wood is haunted and seemingly successful a changeless authorities of change, there's a TERFy lesbian off-grid cult that's engaged successful immoderate profoundly bizarre activities and mediocre Sarah is… conscionable doing her champion (she is painfully relatable). 

This book horrified me, made maine laughter and made maine gag, often each astatine once. It's queer arsenic hell, impressively creepy, packed pinch highly on-the-nose satire and an perfectly chaotic thrust each around.