Freakslaw

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Freakslaw is nonstop freaky, witchy, outlaw, glamour misfit fantasy - adventure fantasy, sex fantasy, revenge fantasy. Geek Love meets American Horror Story meets The Craft meets John Waters. I'd kill to run away with this circus. A shimmering blade of a book. Every sentence is honed for high delight — a captivating cast of characters, dazzling language, and so funny — but there's a smart and dangerous bite to all the campy, glittery glory. Freakslaw makes space for feminist, queer anger... and shows it a great time. We've never been so happy to roll up, roll up. Delightful, delirious and transgressive, this book is the wildest of carnival rides, an open-mouthed kiss with the lingering taste of candyfloss and smoke. Jane Flett has created a queer punk masterpiece and we should all be so lucky to have our lives turned upside down by a visit to the Freakslaw. Freakslaw is a cornucopia of the carnivalesque, where freaks are fabulous and weird is wonderful. Flett’s sumptuously technicolour prose is as startlingly original as it is compulsively moreish. Part block party, part call to arms, Freakslaw is almost a new kind of genre. Wild, raunchy, brutal – a madcap funhouse with heart. A transgressive, inventive dark fantasy with believably complex characters. Crackling with desire, hedonism, angst, violence and sex, this is a vibrant and wildly entertaining read. The zany narrative races along, stuffed with chaos, magic and fabulously unique characters. It’s brilliant on how badly society treats its ‘freaks’. Mad and fun. If it feels as if her debut […] is one she was born to write, then good for her. She succeeds magnificently, leaning into every queer punk excess and fantastical delight . . . A celebration of the marginalised, reframing otherness as a source of great vitality and power. As frightening as it is seductive, this tale of a tightly knit band of outsiders pitting themselves against “that pulsing Calvinist heart” makes for a dark but thrillingly vibrant read. Expand reviews