Holy. Shit.
This book has been sitting on my counter throughout the holidays. I finally set today aside to just veg out and read ARCs, and what a freaking trip UNNAMABLE was. I cut through these 215 pages like a hot knife through butter.
In the mid-1800s, Nathaniel Carter tries to commit a horrible act at the age of fourteen, and spends the next eighteen years running from it. He fights in the Civil War and becomes the leader of an elite group of soldiers-turned-mercenaries. Their newest assignment takes them back to Nathaniel's hometown, dropping him right at the door of the past he'd been avoiding. What seemed to be a simple job on the surface, turns into a nightmare for all of them.
I had an idea of where this story was going, and it turns out I was wrong. 😂 Horrendously wrong. On every level. Schrader tells the entire story from Nathaniel's perspective, hinting at what's ahead. He lands perfectly in that sweet spot between "annoyingly vague" and "I had it figured out right away" that can be difficult to pin down sometimes, leading to twists and turns that leave you feeling unsettled.
The characters are all wonderfully developed, kills are incredibly gruesome, and the revelations made (right up to the very end) are shocking. Ripley was sleeping on my lap while I was reading, and she wasn't thrilled when I kept tensing up and shifting around uncomfortably in my seat. I had fidgety, physical reactions to some of the horror contained in this book, while unable to stop and take a break. I was enthralled from start to finish, and enjoyed the hell out of it!
This is one that I'd recommend checking trigger warnings for, so I'll list them way at the bottom of the post. If you avoid warnings like the plague, don't scroll all the way down!
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Trigger warnings: Violence, gore, rape, suggestions of incest
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