Tell Me I'm Worthless

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This amazing work of trans fiction about houses, hauntings, and horrors is going to be the horror book everyone is discussing next year.”— Book Riot Thank you to the publisher and LibroFM for the audio review copy! All thoughts are honest and my own. People who spend a lot of time talking about books, including me, are probably guilty of saying something is ~like nothing else I’ve ever read~ far too often, but that truly applies here. The only thing I can think of that I’d perhaps stand it next to is Gary Budden’s London Incognita, which has a similar punk spirit flowing through its veins, but the fact that Tell Me I’m Worthless is written specifically from a queer/trans/female perspective makes it feel that much more radical. Tell Me I'm Worthless is a defiant love letter to the lost, reminding us that win or lose, live or die, we can still save our souls by choosing love.” —Maya Deane, author of Wrath Goddess Sing

my other main problem: this entire book is just about rape. there's nothing i hate more than horror that solely uses rape and the threat of rape to bring its point across. "oh maybe the real horror was the, well, really real every day horror all along, boo 👻" - give me a break. I might write more when I reread it – which I definitely will. Honestly, I’ve struggled to find the language to describe how good it is and how it made me feel; it’s an experience. Just know that if you are at all interested in horror, this book is essential reading. now for the plot, which can be summed up as 'what if hill house were actually powered by evil nazi ghosts' - or to put it specifically, the spirit of capitalist whiteThe Reader gets both Alice and Ila's perspectives, as well as a third perspective that I will let you discover for yourself. An utterly harrowing experience. Like all iconic masterworks of horror fiction, Tell Me I'm Worthless rips you apart and then tenderly pieces you together until you're something entirely new.”— Eric LaRocca, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke Rumfitt’s talent for portraying the deplorable, disgusting, and grotesque shines throughout her masterful sophomore horror outing.”— Publishers Weekly, STARRED review Rumfitt’s work is extreme body horror that expertly wields the genre like a ritual knife….a challenging but wholly captivating example of how perfectly horror is a vehicle for transformation and self-realization.”— Tor.com

A gripping, hallucinogenic haunted house novel as righteously angry as it is horrifying, Tell Me I'm Worthless unflinchingly lays bare the personal and cultural scars we wear, endure, and inflict.” — Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World and The Pallbearers Club A sharp and visceral novel which bends the horror genre to its will. Tell Me I’m Worthless holds a gruesome mirror up to the way it feels to live now. I absolutely tore through this book” —Julia Armfield, author of Salt Slow and Our Wives Under the Sea

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Cutting, disruptive, and darkly funny, Tell Me I’m Worthless is a vital work of trans fiction that examines the devastating effects of trauma and how fascism makes us destroy ourselves and each other. Graphic depictions of gore, violence and sexual abuse indulgently act as the primary vehicles to drive the escalation of horror forward. The character work is good, Alice, Ila, and Hannah feel like fully formed people while at the same time, symbolic. I’ll admit, transgressive works of fiction fly over my head sometimes and this book made me feel confused. It’s riddled with terrible ideologies, antisemitism, racism, populism, I mean…you name it, it comes up in here. The House is a whole *other* character I forgot to mention. There is a story to follow here, Tell Me I’m Worthless has a plot and it’s there in the synopsis for you but honestly, it’s more than that because this book feels personal and it’s going to hit you different than it will anyone else, you’ll have to just decide if you’re ready for that. For me, my mind and body were ready, but my heart was resistant. It really did hurt too much. Content warnings for: transphobia, anti-Semitism, racism, slur usage, graphic rape and attempted rape, violence, death