Wretch

or, The Unbecoming of Porcelain Khaw

De: Eric LaRocca

Narrado por: André Santana, Devon Sorvari, Feodor Chin

From rising horror star and award-winning author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke comes a nightmarish, haunting, tech-Gothic thrill ride about sorrow, memory, and the unabashed complexity of love as a transgressive act.

After his husband dies, Simeon Link finds himself overcome by grief and seeking comfort in an unusual support group called The Wretches, who offer an addictive and dangerous source of relief. They introduce Simeon to a curious figure known as Porcelain Khaw—a man with the ability to let those who are grieving have one last intimate moment with their beloved...for a price.

Hallucinatory, fiendish, and destructively beautiful, Wretch transports us to a world where not everything is as it seems, and those we love may be the ones who haunt us most.

Unlikeable characters with bad takes

main character is a neurotic depressed gay man with some really poorly informed takes on relationships. It feels like he is the crystalized distillation of all the stupidity of the people I was surrounded by in my twenties. Everything is negative and fatalistic, relationships are just vehicles for sex, and monogamy is somehow impossible. There aren't actually elements of horror. No matter how you look at this book it isn't a supernatural horror book. This is primarily a story about the main character endlessly excusing his own shitty personality traits while pining for his dead husband. There are maybe fifteen or twenty minutes of supernatural content in the book and it's primarily a character piece. The characters are all equally unlikeable, similar to most Chuck Palahniuk novels.

The entire plot could've been resolved if the main protagonist just got a prescription for anti anxiety medication or smoked pot.