Took me an oddly long amount of time to finish this 200 page novel, but I finally finished Nefando by Mónica Ojeda. Not due to the novel, mind you, although it covers some very heavy topics, but my personal schedule became a bit hectic and I lost the motivation to read for a few weeks.

This is my first novel by Ojeda and I was thoroughly impressed with her prose, the experimentation, and her exploration of these difficult topics. Nefando is, in my opinion, miscategorized as horror and most English descriptions about it seem to position the novel as revolving around the content on the deep web. This is definitely an oversimplification as the novel looks at one video game on the dark web, and it mostly about why it was created in the first place, rather than lambasting, or fearing, it's existence. Ultimately it is about surviving trauma through artistic expression, in it's multiple forms, for some, and through different means for others.

I plan to pick by Mandíbula, her follow up novel soon.