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Massive thanks to:
Cover Designer ~ Rebecca F. Kenney
Illustrator ~ Thomas Brown
Editor ~ Johannes Punkt (main editor) and C. J. Subko (early developmental edits)
Formatter ~ Ezra Arndt
Composer ~ Gemma Dyer [née Cartmell]
Reviews
With her trademark sharp humour and anachronistic worldbuilding, C.M. Rosens takes us on a darkly funny ride through cosmic and gothic horror via family melodrama and the terror of the mundane. My favourite aspec cannibal, Ricky, continues to attempt relationships with people. He has, it must be admitted, limited success. But at least part of that is Wes’ fault, who is really really trying but manages to screw people over and accidentally start a cult despite his best efforts. And Katy is carrying the burden of being perhaps the most emotionally able of the lot, which, considering she is a teenage killing beast, does not speak well to the state of anyone else. She is also coming to grips with what being the Beast and in control of herself might mean. Carrie/Fairwood House would very much like people to just stop messing with Ricky, please and thank you.
The Day We Ate Grandad is a wicked delight full of compellingly awful characters, tangled family dynamics, grime, gore, tentacles, apples, and the spectre of Merlin disapproving of your life choices. It provides a deeply satisfying wrapping-up of the plots and stories brought up in The Crows and Thirteenth, and remains some of the best horror that I’ve ever read. Highly recommended!
Content Notes:
- Addiction and sobriety (drugs, but also literal addiction to a romantic partner)
- ADHD symptoms that aren’t diagnosed or acknowledged, characters themselves are unaware they exhibit them and blame themselves/other things for memory processing issues, hyperactivity, lack of impulse control, lack of focus, self-medication, etc.
- Animal death (a sheep for entrail reading purposes)
- Apocalypse threat – eldritch god destruction, but also destructive behaviour from insidious addiction to an image
- Arson and on-page fire (I know some people really don’t like this)
- Bereavement in complicated circumstances and varied – often messy/destructive – responses to grief; on-page memorial service
- Binges and their aftermaths, a minor (17F) having to handle some of this and being placed in a carer/parental role
- Body Horror
- Body dysmorphia & complex feelings around one’s own body, which can be read as similar to dysphoria
- Child neglect (historic) and mention of child sacrifice in cult context – no on-page depiction of this, and no minors feature in the book apart from the 17yo MC (the only minor MC, all other MCs are adults)
- Cult – family members being indoctrinated, joining out of trauma, and insider POV
- Depression (severe)
- Disordered eating in men that has gone unrecognised by others
- Dubious Consent (m/m)
- Emesis
- Erectile dysfunction
- Friendship issues, loss and arguments
- Gore (Graphic)
- Inbred family of sibling & cousin pairings, family culture of inbreeding is prized over ‘outbreeding’ but also joked about by family members
- Murder of close relatives by MCs
- Parasites, parasitical imagery, worm/maggot infestations in living flesh, graphic descriptions of wounds that may trigger Entomophobia or acarophobia, parasitic dermatophobia, or parasitophobia
- Relationship issues and complicated dynamics
- Self-harm and suicide ideation; suicide in cult context as ‘sacrifice’
- Self-mutilation for various reasons, to varying degrees: under the influence of addiction, and in cult context, and in ritual context.
- Sibling deaths and sibling estrangement; complicated sibling relationships; younger sibling caring for older sibling and vice versa.
- Trypophobia (descriptions that may trigger this)
Reviews
Meredith Debonnaire’s review on her blog.
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