Sixteen-year-old Kim White is not like most of her peers. For one thing: she is attractive, popular, and comes from a wealthy family, but she hates it all. She’s “grown weary of the same brats and bitches” in her life at school and has no interest in sex or in being touched or losing her virginity to some “hairy flesh-bag… belching out testosterone-fueled lies and flexing their incomplete, teenage bodies.” She, however, is intrigued by how her friends tell her sex has changed their lives: “suddenly your childhood is gone, and the whole world just looks different.” Even more intriguing to Kim is the hardcore bondage porn she discovers on the Internet. She begins to think losing her virginity “to an adult—and a teacher at that—would be an unconventional, drastic move. It would be a dark and dirty thing with all of the makings of a game-changer.” And thus, the fun—and the terror—begins in Kristopher Triana’s latest dark thriller, Full Brutal (2018).
In 1954 author William March published one of his last works, The Bad Seed (it was filmed in 1956). In the psychological thriller, it is revealed that eight-year-old Rhoda Penmark’s charming and sweet personality is a façade for a scheming murderess. Both the book and the movie were shocking and popular at the time, but Triana’s Kim White is light-years away from Rhoda. Chances are Kim achieves a level of violent, psychotic mayhem seldom reached by most characters in horror fiction. Discovering that sex does not give her the release or change of life she expected, Kim goes on a murdering rampage which she does find fulfilling—temporarily—a rampage that needs to be constantly escalated. And those she doesn’t actually kill, she arranges and manipulates things so their lives are made miserable much to her inhuman glee. She feels next to no remorse for her increasingly grotesque and hideous actions and no real regret.
As events and the number of victims in Full Brutal escalate, enough blood and gore flow from the pages of the novel to fill numerous volumes of the controversial “splatter punk” movement in horror fiction, originating in the 1980s. Triana’s novel is charged with enough gruesome violence and kinky sex to make one of today’s masters of such fiction, Ed Lee, squirm and turn his eyes away from the page in fright and dismay.
It is improbable that a sixteen-year-old girl could pull off so much cold-blooded murder, body mutilation, evisceration, cannibalism, autosarcophagy, and torture (both physical and mental), but Triana’s rapid-fire, explicit, and vividly realistic writing is such that readers are likely not to give that much thought—wondering, instead, what is going to happen next. Likewise, Triana does not provide a lot of detailed insight into Kim’s motivation other than the satisfaction her despicable actions provide her. Ironically, when Kim reflects upon herself, she usually sees a victim or someone who is tremendously proud of her intellect and machinations; her ability to control and affect the lives of others. She is a flesh-eating disease, a serpentine monster out of control for whom “hurting people is an art” to be “enjoyed”—a monster the likes of which today’s society often sees reflected in “mass shooters and suicide bombers.” Ironically, at one-point Kim, who is the first-person narrator of the story, comments, serial killers “aren’t in the news much anymore. We have new monsters,” but the serial killers are “still out there.”
Reading Full Brutal is much like watching one of those real-life videos which captures cars and trucks and their drivers rear-end and collide with the vehicle in front of them in what appears to be an almost endless chain of pandemonium—only much more vicious and appalling with the reader gasping, wondering how much more is to come and when and how it might end.
Clearly, Full Brutal is not a book for just anyone or horror fans who limit themselves to “quiet” horror. Triana brilliantly takes readers into the mind of a very dark, relentless being. It is Traina’s gifted writing which brings to life a “bleak, pessimistic, dark” aberration and her deeds—someone no reader would ever want to encounter in real life (but know they exist based upon the far too frequent horrors of today), and yet are bound to find both mesmerizing and terrifying—if they make it to the end of the book.
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“But there is no power as thrilling as being able to completely decimate another human being, to demoralize and deconstruct their very soul until all that’s left of their fragile sanity is frenzied, blurry tatters. It makes a girl feel like a goddess.”Kim White is bored with life. As a young, popular cheerleader, you’d think she has it all. But what Kim wants out of life is more… brutal. You see, she needs human suffering in order to find joy. Pain, agony, extreme bondage. And where else will she get that besides from the teacher who got her pregnant and her so-called friends? Too bad the little demon inside of her craves human flesh. Will Kim be able to exact her brutal plan to its fullest, or will the little demon eat her from the inside out first?This book was difficult to swallow and much like its title suggests, it’s BRUTAL. I’ve read a few of Triana’s books now and I have to say, this one is up there in gore factor. And I absolutely loved it.To be honest, there is a portion of this book that hit a trigger for me and made it a bit difficult to read, but once I was past that, everything else before and after was delightful! To see into Kim’s mind and read her relishing in extreme torture was insane and strangely luxurious? 😅 Like getting a VIP look into the most deranged of thoughts.On top of that, Triana’s writing is like butter. So fluid and with the perfect balance of description, action, and horror. I definitely had some questions in the end that I would’ve liked answered but I think that was the point—kind of like American Psycho and the questioning of his sanity and going ons in the final few pages… only this is a teenage cheerleader. 😂If you think you can stomach it, I would definitely recommend the dive. It’s dark and deep and filled with intestines but it’s a pretty radical POV to be a part of. Just be careful of those triggers and take a break if need be like I did. 😂TW: sexual violence, discussion of suicide
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Michael
Too evil for me.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 11, 2021
Michael
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 11, 2021
I just can't enjoy reading about such depravity and how much you can destroy another person just for the hell of it.
The writer is very talented though, can't deny that and he does exactly what he intended to do; leaving the reader shocked.
Not for me but if you're into 'extreme' horror, you'll probably like this.
Now excuse me while I scrub myself with bleach and turn vegetarian.
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