Serious Weakness

I am so creepy about your work. I adore your style. You know I am actually slowly reading it you have to put it down

i did this to a girl one time irl

I bought a physical copy.

This book has a sort of oil-slick quality to it, you digest it and you can feel its wrongness seep into your bones, poisoning you and making you worse while you chug. Rainbow iridescence spilling across your front as you can't quite swallow correctly. A type of life-altering read, in the sense that it will always be there, like radioactive decay lingering in your mind.

It was really, really really good. I really enjoyed reading it.

bought a physical copy of it, read it. this is one of the rawest and most fucked up things ive ever read. i love it

bought the paperback, went back and bought the epub for the portability and extras as well. thank you porpentine <3

was gifted a copy. transcendental. a visceral brutality ive been starving for. a deeply satisfying scratching of a bone deep itch. thank you for writing it.

I don't think there's anything more I can say than that every couple pages I put down the book and said aloud "this happened to me." Hell of a thing, not sure how you did it. Will be thinking about this one for a long time.

I finished this last night and I am going to write a very earnest review on my website that will out me as several fucked up things to my family but right now I need to say that this book has permanently changed me. X

One of the most phenomenally well written books I have ever read. It was so fucking vivid right from the get-go. However, I'm not sure I "enjoyed" this book as I had a full blown panic attack and almost threw up while reading it. That is an extremely impressive feat, though.

Reading this book was like being forced to stare into a mirror and acknowledge all the horrible shit that was fucked into me against my will. 10/10

christ on fucking earth. i have not been this gripped by a book in years. every time i wasn’t reading it i was thinking about it, and every time i was reading it it felt impossible to drag myself away. i finished it today, at work i have these little five minute breaks every half hour or so and i was using every single one to devour this. seriously one of the best books i’ve ever read. the first night i started i stayed up until 4am reading. every second i just had to find out what happened next even when every time it was more fuckshit gore and rape. so fucked up. felt like i was getting crushed.

im a classics student and read mostly stuff from 2000 years ago, and this was my first foray into something… truly modern? written by someone like me? the first novel i’ve ever read that captures what the online world is really like. i’m used to seeing posts and videos about the internet and internet culture, but i’ve never read a book that mirrors it back to me (the reason for that is of course that terminally online geniuses don’t get bookshop book deals that reach my corner of the earth, and i haven’t ventured much into this realm before. more fool the me!!! i am incredibly excited to read more of your stuff, and find other people with similar stuff. shoutout to paying for an .epub). it was also completely hilarious! based and waterpilled! so many times i laughed out loud.

also the most refreshing portrayal of autism i’ve ever consumed. i feel like i clung too much to the bastion of the unproblematic as a teenager after i got diagnosed, and this was exactly what i needed at this point in my life. every use of “retard” was cathartic (all the “faggot”s too lol). i feel somehow more secure in my autism after this.

incredible gore, viciously affecting, graphic rape scenes, the whole book was overstimulating in the best way, i’ve read few books that feel so vivid and bright. your descriptive prose was phenomenal. the whole book felt drenched in neon and blood (and piss and cum and energy drinks and sweat and tears and vomit and pizza grease). today while i was reading it i bought a pizza for lunch and drank my monster energy just to try and feel it all more than the words.

just obsessed with the characters and their relationships too, holy shit, will be thinking about trianon and insul and oenone til the end of my days. and the climate change stuff was great too, very casual, so real. lots of things (the autism, the sexuality and genderish stuff, the climate change stuff) felt touched on so realistically and subtly, just really well done. the school shooter stuff was crazy. it was kind of refreshing too to see that portrayed so bluntly, without i think the precise fear that usually surrounds the phenomenon, but without also the cruel glee that you’ll find 4channers espousing. i am australian, so mass shootings are not really on the public consciousness as much as they are in america, but in late high school i kind of voyeuristically looked a lot at online columbine fans as like an exercise in cringe, fascinated by their weirdness and their obsession with that shooting. also by coincidence the morning on the day i started this book i was at the site of the worst mass shooting in australian history, so it was kind of on my mind.

fuck. so glad i came across this book, so glad you wrote it! i write a bit myself (lots of blood and vomit and such) and you have inspired me to write even more (and even weirder). can i ask like where you got the idea from, or how it came about, like i guess the creative process lol? like what was the first idea you had that made you go yeah this needs to be a book? and did you always know it would end with them alive and together? also god sorry for all the questions but how did you come up with the names they are so fun. if you’ve answered these before do just link me or something lol. anyway. big outpouring but i needed to say it! just haven’t been so engrossed in a book for ages.

Feels like someone taking a melon-baller to your soul, ripping it out of your body, pointing out everything about it that will be loved or appreciated, good or bad, crushing it till no juice remains, then shoving it back in the aforementioned melon-balled corpse.

it's the best book I ever read. it made my brother complex worse.

One of the most traumatic pieces of media I've read in a long time. I ate this in a singular voracious week while isolated on a ship. I finished it with an immense darkness in my stomach. The ship served corndogs, that night.

It's good. It's really, really good.
It's difficult to recommend. If I tell you anything about it beyond "This is a story about a damage assessor being kidnapped by a vandal," you won't read it.

You've gotta read it. 
You didn't get here by accident.

Incredible incredible stuff. Overwhelming and difficult to get through in the best way, I found it impossible to read it without basically carving out time to pace around alone during breaks. Thank you for such harsh-clear and disrupting writing, scenes will linger in my mind forever after this point.

This book is both difficult to put down and pick back up. It brought back a lot of traumatic, yet somehow fond memories. I am of the mind that the more that a piece of art is able to change you fundamentally as a person, the better it is. This is probably the best book I've ever read (so far). This book rearranged the borders of my mind multiple times, disturbing my sense of identity and momentarily reawakening the phantoms of hallucinations long past. It will be interesting to see where the borders land once the dust has settled (I only just now finished my first reading). I know they won't be in the same places they were before, that's for sure. Thank you for sharing your wonderful art with the world!

A book that squishes its characters together like blobs of dry play-doh until they crumble and merge in monstrous intimacy. It’s fucked up. It feels daring. I really liked it.

i read this book at the end of december and i'm reading it again now. i always feel so lucky to find art/writing like this. it feels like a big overblown statement, but it really changed my life in some way that's hard for me to put to words. i feel like i'm always desperate for stories that puncture me the way this one does, and they're so hard to find. this gave me the gutting i wanted and i was numb for a whole day after finishing it. it was horrible and hot and heartbreaking. thanks for this and for making so many things that matter to me.

book has affected me for days, was sickened and amazed in numerous scenes! Wild act of solidarity in Trianon, "There is nothing I could do to you that you wouldn't deserve", cried a LOT, also extremely hot. every submission I have ever wanted for myself is here. amazing job, I don't know what to do.