Loved Victorian Psycho by for its unhinged women puncturing propriety? Meet Penance by .
Buy on AmazonWhy It's Your Next Read
- Mockumentary structure = Hitchcockian tension elevated
- Religious obsession unravels w/ satirical bite
- Female rage exposes small-town rot brilliantly
- Unreliable narrators layer truth & madness
If you savored Victorian Psycho's poison-tipped wit and unhinged women puncturing polite society, Penance delivers that same exhilarating discomfort through morally bankrupt characters and satirical dissection of modern rot. Clark constructs an eerie, isolated world where obsession unravels with mockumentary elegance—intellectual chills disguised as genre, Hitchcockian tension sharpened by literary ambition, and zero interest in redemption arcs or hand-holding.
This isn't escapism; it's a mirror held to societal hypocrisies through vivid, uncomfortable portrayals of girls and women who refuse to be likeable. The grotesque feels cathartic, the madness bracingly intimate.
Zero interest in redemption arcs or hand-holding.
What Readers Are Saying
"Penance is a compulsive and unsettling examination...captures the pure malice and nastiness of 2010s internet culture..." — leah, Goodreads
"Eliza Clark demonstrates an exceptional ability to develop unique, convincing character voices...brought to life in vivid detail, as if the author had a profound knowledge..." — Baba Yaga Reads, Goodreads
"…I loved Penance so much. The book has haunted me the same way that the idea of "Penance" has haunted the characters." — 1mveryconfused, Reddit
Supermassive Book Hole is your personal media universe — books, movies, games, and albums on one beautiful shelf, with notes, and a feed of what your friends are into.
SHELVE THIS BOOK
