We Like It Cherry Review

Special thanks to Tenebrous Press for the ARC copy they provided.

My.

Gods.

This. Book.

It’s hard to say enough about We Like It Cherry because this book was far from what I expected in that it was far more than I anticipated. Not only was We Like It Cherry psychological, it dug its claws into me and wouldn’t let me stop, even when parts of the story turned my stomach.

Jacy Morris has written a powerful book with vivid imagery and environments that feel as alive and gripping as the characters. From smoky powwow nights to barren, icy hells under the northern lights We Like It Cherry transports you. It’s amazing to think I finished my read through over a month ago because the richness of the plot and the intensity of the pace still linger in my mind.

Transported. For the space of three days, I existed only in this world Morris painted. There was not a single moment I felt I could put my book down. Raw meat, cannibalism, death, horror on the ice… and yet I didn’t want to leave. Because there was a kind of desperate hope woven through Morris’ words.

One that flows through and wraps dangerously around your heart.

We Like It Cherry is terrifying, perhaps most of all, because it is about freeing yourself of the things you use to hold yourself back from happiness. Facing ourselves, looking into the stark mirror of what we hide within, that is far more difficult than facing a tribe of people who want to hunt and eat you to complete a great ritual. The fact most of us, when presented with the choice of the two options, would choose the possibility of being devoured speaks for itself.

We Like It Cherry will hunt me for a long time to come, and if you dare to read it, We Like It Cherry will haunt you as well. Face the mirror and look… if you dare.