![]() ![]() It does so in an obvious, in your face way, where metaphors are a thing of the past, and the author explicitly tells you what “lessons” you’re meant to walk away from the story with. Tell Me I’m Worthless is a transgressive horror novel that tackles a lot of themes. Rumfitt has a talented way of making her story leap from the page, selecting just the right words to illustrate a point, and creating a sense of madness in the reader, which she does from the very first page. I’m going to start off this review with a preface that the writing style is phenomenal. Together, Alice and Ila must face the horrors that happened there, must pull themselves apart from the inside out, put their differences aside, and try to rescue Hannah, whom the House has chosen to make its own.Ĭutting, disruptive, and darkly funny, Tell Me I’m Worthless is a vital work of trans fiction that examines the devastating effects of trauma and how fascism makes us destroy ourselves and each other. Memories of that night torment Alice, but when Ila asks her to return to the House, to go past the KEEP OUT sign and over the sick earth where teenagers dare each other to venture, Alice knows she must go. She lives a haunted existence, selling videos of herself for money, going to parties she hates, drinking herself to sleep. Three years ago, Alice spent one night in an abandoned house with her friends, Ila and Hannah. ![]()
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