The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum.

Well, I just wanted to say that I'm a huge fan of horror media in general (books, movies, stories, etc), but the stuff that I have been reading is down bad truly horrifying and traumatizing. I've been into splatterpunk genre for a while, getting to know this… uncommon type of content and..to be honest, it wasn't really that disturbing at all, maybe not the things I was expecting to feel about the trigger warnings and gore. Therefore, I don't classify this cause I'm a psychopath or anything like that, but I'm that kind of person with high level resilience; not that easy to break.

I've been reading this recommended novel, The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum. It's truly messed up, horrifying, bloody and disturbing in all kinds of ways you could've imagined. And you know why? Cause it comes with an extra twist: it's a real true crime story about the murder-torture of a teenage girl.

The book is a torture porn with extreme abuse, violence and torture scenes inflicted to a child (16 years old Meg) by her own Aunt, a sadistic psycho woman, her cruel sons and other children/teens in the neighborhood. The girl is not, ABSOLUTELY not seen in the entire book as a HUMAN being, only like a punch bag and indisciplined animal that needs correction. It scares me that it felt too realistically, because people will use every justification to harm and feed on others pain with gratification.

Why would not recommend and still would.

1. Extremely violent, bloody and traumatizing. The book is a straight up torture porn/snuff about the destruction of a teenage girl, whose life (before, só much happy) is transformed into a hell. It contains descriptions (very detailed, VERY) of what she endures and how her body will react to the pain, explicitly showing the criminals happiness in harming, cutting e/or raping her. Truly disturbing and twisted in much high levels.

2. The book has a lot of reflection and sometimes, even poetic prose. Think about Lord Of The Flies, but happening in a neighborhood but without the surviving mechanics. It's only the sistematic construction of a secret little society whose main objective is to torture a porr innocent girl till she dies. The author is really coherent while approaching social discussions like misogyny, bigotry and theories like mass psychology. The evilness that is inside all of us, but it's only released when theres a great opportunity to let it out.

Not recommend to the faint of heart. Only audience +18.