It’s sort of like Frankenstein, if Frankstein were a love story between the mad scientist and the monster. Not quite that but still. Johann is a man..or is he..that has never known anything but the worst of humanity and has responded accordingly by killing anyone in his path that has something he wants. He’s also apparently unkillable, and he draws Florian in with sort of moth to the flame vibe. How can you have a scientists mind and not be intrigued by the evidence of something so other worldly right infront of you? This book is graphic and stalk and bloody and not for the faint of heart. You shouldn’t like the characters, but you do and the story is fairly fast paced.

Fascinating and gruesome.
One of the stronges points of the bookw as the narration.
The story was atmospheric and certainly horrific, but also intriguing. I kind of lost track of what was going on at the end though. Might give this another read sometime.

Content warnings include: gore, violence, murder, sexual assault and rape, plague, manipulation and controlling other people, mutilation of corpses, vague incest vibes