The Woebegones: MARY by A. Noel Biddy

My Review: 

I'd like to start out by saying I love the way this is formatted. It starts at the last chapter and ends with the first. I feel like this kind of story worked extremely well with this formatting, as it kept me more interactive with this story than the others.

Now the rest.

This book made me feel sick quite a bit. There were paragraphs or even pages I'd entirely skip over because my stomach and heart couldn't handle what was happening. It was sickening to me. This is almost as dark as dark can get, and not in a fun way, in my opinion.

This book needs a slew of trigger warnings, and I had to read or do something out between bouts of reading this one to clear my head and remove certain images from my mind.

All in all, A. Noel Biddy does a fantastic job at creating deplorable and flawed characters. These books are like train wrecks you can't peel your eyes from at times. I do appreciate the parallels in each book, and the line about the chainsaw made me laugh out loud, considering what happened in Franky, and it was nice to have some answers about the debit card and who Natasha was in Persephone.

I'm sure it'd be interesting to read this in the proper order, but I cannot bring myself to reread this book. I can see where its self-proclaimed "offensiveness" might come from, but for most of the books in this series, it's more of a disgust for situations, characters, or chapters in my opinion.

Summary: 

This tale in The Woebegones series follows the glamorous, divine, holy, sophisticated and backward character of Mary who believes that her purity can bring peace to the world. And though her dreams are righteous as she pursues the path as a pageant Queen, along her way her faith, purity, and indeed her character are tested to the brink. And it is when she plunges into the heart of darkness that her true power is found which causes the underworld of filth to take heed of the virgin who is so naturally gifted in being the force to be reckoned with that invites all unnecessary evils to face that are shocking, perverse and deeply disturbing.
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