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** spoiler alert ** Things I loved:
Women can be psychotic, torturing murderers too! Feminism.

The first line/opening page. It was very strong and memorable.

Maeve loving Halloween/soundtracks, and loving her job as a princess

That there is a cat in this story who doesn't end up like every animal in a horror novel

Egg fetish. One of the most wholesome things about this novel, tbh

Ice skating is fun and such a cute date, even when the participant is a psychopath


Things I didn't love:
The narrative voice. It felt like there were certain phrases and ideas the author wanted to include but some of the execution felt excessively wordy and purple and didn't really fit with what was being said. It just felt like words added that didn't really add value, they just sounded "cool" or extreme. It kept taking me out of the story. I also didn't really connect with Maeve because she felt like such a pretentious edgelord for a lot of the book, until she just unapologetically goes for it. (I did like when Kate basically called her out for this though.) The constant feeding of rage, wolf and monkey metaphor, etc also got repetitive.

The pacing. I was pretty bored the first half, and then the second half involved some pretty heavy torture porn, which is not my cup of tea when it comes to the horror genre.

Kate's character, and her brother Gideon. They felt weirdly flat? They're like a pale echo of Maeve. It's hard to explain but really only serve as devices for Maeve to play off, and all the sections they are in are boring. The sex scenes I found just kind of fever dreamy, I don't know.

The grandmother. The tone was sort of weird around her and we don't actually care about her health or anything, so despite her relationship background with Maeve being a bit mysterious, the ultimate reveal of how they bonded is kind of lackluster because I didn't feel tension was built very well. A lot of it just felt like a more well-adjusted character taking care of a dying relative. So the end felt a bit like "well, duh" and anti-climactic.

Anyway this book wasn't for me but I seem to be an outlier. if you like Chuck Palahniuk, the Hostel movies or (obviously) American Psycho you will enjoy it probably.