The Seas are Screaming: action horror

“...a butch lesbian plumber faces off with monsters created by science run amok.” With a sentence like that in the store description do you really need more to read this? Fine.

So Becca, the aforementioned butch lesbian plumber, discovers she has a brain disease that runs in her family, causing her much grief. She lives with her girlfriend, and much of the first half of this revolves around their relationship and back and forth dialogue, that got a little overmuch for me after a while. It was certainly cute at first, though.

During this first half, they also discover a strange crab that seems to be able to mutate at will and do a little bit of investigating the strange sickness that is going around town, causing black sores to develop all over people, all while also dealing with Becca's own health problem.

After the first half is finished and all is set up to go wrong, Becca is called into work, even though she is very ill from her brain disease complete with fainting spells, weakness, and the like, she eventually caves in and goes because it is an emergency and all the other workers have gotten sick.

The second half then commences and unleashes one of the most disgusting body horrors I've seen in a while upon the reader. It's glorious, and I'm not gonna spoil it, I'll just drop one little teaser. “A centipede made out of a human spine, with rib bones for its spindly legs, all 100 of them” There's a heck of a lot more where that came from too, as well as just some really gross scenes in general, and I loved those.

The characters aren't terrible but not too great either, and it suffers from too many of those little coincidences like Becca being a worker at the plant where it all goes down, and her girlfriend Kiki being a marine biologist that is seemingly involved in whatever is going on somehow, but the gross-out horror elements make up for everything. So if you're in the mood for that, this will hit the spot and then some. Don't like body horror you say? Don't worry,

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