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Catrina Maria, Intrarea Grozavesti, Bucharest (2026)

13/05/2026

Down with the clown everywhere 🖤🤍

25/03/2026

ARC REVIEW
THIS WAS INSANE
Kenneth is living the dream: he is a sales man of a luxury car brand and he loves his job. He takes advantage of everyone and sees others as tools to achieve his desires. Basically, there's nothing you can like about him. I couldn't wait to get to the part where bad things happen to him.
After some unfortunate situations, Kenneth becomes homeless. The same system that made him rich (or at least upper middle class) has now took everything from him. Now, I don't know much about how things work in United States, but bureaucracy doesn't help the citizens anywhere. I was kind of frustrated that Kenneth had no family and friends to help him. It's hard to believe there were no one to give him a hand.
Beside the gore and horror, The Skin Room is a very good commentary about homelessness and social classes. How it comes some lives are superior or inferior to others? We are so used to social stigmas and our comfortable position we never think about others (unless we have to). I don't know if the author studied sociology or something related to, but it seemed like it was researched well and written with empathy.
The Skin Room combines thriller with gore in a beautiful manner. The first part is more focused on mystery, looking for the killer and surving a systematic nightmare that doesn't give a f**k about you - the part that gets you hooked while preparing you for the second part.
And the second part: IT WAS INSANE! I don't know what I have read. I had vivid dreams of it and it was extremely weird. (but don't worry, I like this way)
I didn't like that at some point it becomes predictible. I enjoy solving mysteries before the action reveals the truth and I also see patterns everywhere so it might be just me on this. Also, I think the word husk was repeated a lot.
The characters have real, deep personalities and meanings. You get attached to them and see how injustice is deeply rooted in a system that should protect the vulnerable ones. Even if I didn't like Kenneth at first, I hoped good things would happen to him. After all, anyone can wake up one day and lose everything.