The Merge by Grace Walker
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I honestly wanted to love this. I love some good body horror as SF, after all. It's a thing.

And making it be a thing between mother and daughter, combining the two together, is a true Freudian nightmare--dressed as a good societal thing. Or husband and wife. Or father and daughter. It's just... so... ICK.

That's what makes for a good dystopian SF horror, right? The ick factor.

But sadly, early on in the read, it became ALL TOO CLEAR that the true horror was gaslighting. It's bad enough, of course, or in some ways, the true mark of our society. Gaslighting, propaganda, lies, lies, lies dressing up the true evil.

And the horror is that we're all fooled into walking off that cliff. Over and over and over.

So why am I just giving this a three star?

Because I was thrown out of the story by how stupid everyone is. Put simply, I tore out my hairs.

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