Degenerate by Matt Casamassina
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

LOL this book has some twists and turns in it. Good ones. Strange ones. Cosmic horror and more.

Right off the bat, however, it reads like it could be a mystery-thriller, quietly transforming into revenge-horror, becoming almost UF in its buddy-fiction hi-jinx, before turning right around and surprising us in a very Nick Cutter/Gone World/Dark City way. Which is, by now, becoming something of a genre in itself. What do we call it, if not cosmic horror? It's a very specific KIND of cosmic horror, anyway. It's rather hard-SF.


So, YEAH, this ostensible HORROR is all those things with a little romance thrown in the mix as well. And superhero action.

And as long as you are going into this book with proper expectations--EXPECT ANYTHING--it's a wild, creative ride. It's an author having an awful lot of fun.

I recommend it wholeheartedly--with these caveats.

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