A review by notalek
Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle

adventurous dark funny hopeful

5.0

I started this book knowing literally nothing about it except its title, the fact that it's a horror story and one tumblr post I saw that said it's great. And they're right, and I'm glad I knew basically nothing cause oh my god it's so hard to describe it without spoiling anything. If you still wanna know a bit before reading (a reasonable need): there's a guy (Mischa), he writes horror movies and created a lot of creepy characters for them which, well, kinda backfires. And now I can't smell cigarettes without thinking about this book and getting creeped out (fortunately I don't smoke). It's also funny, and when I tried to describe its plot to my friend they commented: "You just sound like a random words generator but it seems like you're having fun". And they were right.
When I was around 85% of this book I wasn't sure if I'll give it 4 or 5 stars or maybe 4.5 or anything else in between, but then I realised that the plot is STILL HAPPENING and locked back in, and I honestly like how everything turned out. 

Be queer and happy. On your own rules.


NOW SPOILER PART!!!! DON'T READ THE REST OF THIS REVIEW IF YOU DON'T WANT SPOILERS I'M BEGGING YOU

More thoughts:

– I think the author of this book nailed the concept of rainbow capitalism. "Here at our corporation every month is pride month!!! (as long as it's profitable for us). Slay queen! What's an asexual??"
– I found it quite funny how the nanorobots-with-AI-mimicking-other-characters plot is literally just "Felix, Net i Nika" books but more sinister. And then again there was something like "now it's not only three of us that are in danger but also the rest of the world and it could be the end of the world as we know it...", like that's literally FNiN 15.
– The fucking Smoker was so creepy I think I'll now think about him every time I smell cigarettes. Mischa punching him in the face was so funny though, I laughed out loud in a bus.
– I also really enjoyed those final scenes when Mischa, Zeke and Tara went to meet "Jack" and the AI was just talking more or less openly about stuff. And a contrasting scene earlier, when Mischa was talking with his new (also AI) boss and they were acting normal but both knew what the boss is implying by his "innocent" comments. So sinister.


I think that's it. Damn, that was good.