Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng

Title: Bat Eaters and Other Names for Cora Zeng

Author: Kylie Lee Baker

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Subgenre: Haunting

Pages: 304

Summary

"Cora Zeng is a crime scene cleaner, washing away the remains of brutal murders and suicides in Chinatown. The bloody messes don't bother her, not when she's already witnessed the most horrific thing possible: her sister being pushed in front of a train.

Before fleeing the scene, the murderer whispered two words: bat eater.

Months pass, the killer is never caught, and Cora can barely keep herself together. She pushes away all feelings, disregards the bite marks that appear on her coffee table, and won't take her aunt's advice to prepare for the Hungry Ghost Festival, when the gates of hell open.

Cora tries to ignore the rising dread in her stomach, even when she and her weird co-workers begin finding bat carcasses at their crime scene clean-ups. But Cora can't ignore the fact that all their recent clean-ups have been the bodies of East Asian women.

Soon Cora will learn: you can't just ignore hungry ghosts." Via Good Reads

Review

This is one of my new favorite books of all time! I didn;t know if I was ready to read a book set in 2020 but I am so glad that I gave it that chance it deserved. Bat Eaters and Other Names for Cora Zeng is 1000% worth the hype that it is receiving. This book is heartbreaking, gruesome, and overall makes your heartache, but it also has friends that you won't want to leave and humar that will make you laugh out loud. That dinner scene will forever live rent free in my mind. It was nothing short of amazing from start to finish.

👻 The Horror Report

Scare Factor: 😱😱😱😱😱

Gore: 🩸🩸🩸🩸

Atmosphere: 🌫️🌫️🌫️

WTF Factor: 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯