![]() ![]() Not because they are deformed in any way, but because they are garbage human beings who manipulate each other and strangers in ways so malicious that I started to question the author’s mental health. Together they are the most cruel, evil, vile, dysfunctional family I think I’ve ever read about.Įveryone in this book is disgusting. They have Arty, the Aqua Boy with fins instead of arms and legs, Iphy and Elly, the conjoined twins attached at the pelvis, Oly, our narrator and albino, hunchback, dwarf, and Chick, who appears perfectly normal from the outside but developed a secret gift. ![]() They purposefully cause birth defects in their own pregnancies in order to build up their circus acts. The Binewski family does create their own freak show but I thought it’d be in a kidnapping and mutilating strangers way. It’s creepy, but not in a spooky way, more like a sex offender stalking you at the park way. ![]() I don’t know that I would call it horror but I’m not sure what else it would be. The description of a carny family that creates their own freak show caught my attention and I dove in. I was looking for something for October, something horror, something creepy, maybe something kind of gross. I picked up Geek Love after finding the title on a list of body horror books. The summary has been adapted from an earlier spoiler full review and has some overlap with the spoiler free review. The review and summary have been separated so that if you would prefer to avoid spoilers of Geek Love by author Katherine Dunn you can stop reading. ![]()
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