F4

This book has so much going on - but in a good way! It never stops being entertaining while at the same time pushing the boundaries on what you might come to expect from a story with this synopsis. This book has creature feature elements (I mean there are kaijus, after all! OOOH and little parasitic bug monsters!), claustrophobic suspense, themes of trans acceptance and understanding, humor, sex, and LOTS of other sexy things! And all of these things DO end up going together quite nicely to tell one amazing bizarro story!I definitely need more bizarro from Glasser! 4 stars - highly recommended for fans of bizarro and erotic horror!

The overall plot reminded me of one of those SyFy movies, except I actually liked it - if she hadn't brought [not named to avoid spoilers] back I would have been so pissed. The characters are delightfully unconventional, the writing style is well-paced and clear, and Larissa isn't afraid of being graphic (lots of gore, alien-looking hell-creatures, and sex) or using colloquialisms, both of which she does very well. I loved the elements of the Kaiju and it's one of the most creative reads I've had in a long time.

A giant monster sea disaster isn't where I would usually expect so many erotic descriptions, but giant monster sea disasters aren't exactly frequent, especially not with hate group conspiracies, vast transmogrification, cosmic mythos, elements of being trans lend to themes, plot, and characters alike... There's so much packed into F4 that it becomes hard to classify, but it's unique strangeness only makes the experience more welcoming.

Something that I am greatly looking forward to this year is the new releases in the NBAS (New Bizarro Author Series). A new title will be released bi-monthly. The first, F4 by Larissa Glasser, is a wild trip on the back of a supermonster. In the preface, the editor states that this story is not a slap in the face with politics. However, every good story has it hero or heroine bucking the system, hence there is a political undertone here. This is an unorthodox journey into the nether regions of the author's colorful and exciting imagination. At the heart of this metamorphical trip is Carol, a transgender woman in search of confidence in a world where doing the right thing invites persecution. Carol may have to enter another dimension on the wings of a kaiju to discover her strengths and rescue the disenfranchised, but she faces her challenges with panache. And maybe a bit of anadaC. If you like what you've just read, by all means, pick up F4 and get lost in the frenzy.

In Larissa Glasser’s F4, real-life kaiju have invaded Earth. F1 and F2 disappeared and F3 blew up but F4 has been captured. Kept unconscious with drugs, it has been retrofitted into the Finasteride, a sleazy, rip-off cruise liner that exists mostly inside F4’s guts.Carol, a down-and-out trans woman, gets a job on board through her ultra-straight sister Roz, who already works there. Carol is escaping a massive online harassment campaign led by the alt right Ratites. She’s also pursuing another trans woman, the beautiful Chloe, who works in the ship’s casino (located in F4’s spleen) alongside Carol. But megalomaniacal Captain Brock has other plans and the Finasteride will never complete its cruise from the Caribbean to Miami … and, unknown to Carol, she plays a major role in Brock’s plans and also has a connection to F4 itself.F4 is loud, fast, and disgusting, a mash-up of every trash movie genre, from action to gross-out horror to –- of course! -- Kaiju films. For all the darkness and cynicism, the tone is gleeful; Glasser obviously adores this stuff and had fun writing it. There’s also raunchy sex, all of it revolving around the hotness of “girldick” (as is only right).But what makes F4 a must-read is that in the process of spewing out her uncensored fantasies Glasser also spills a lot of trans guts. She gives a raw account of transphobia, social marginalization, and self-hatred, especially in a long, realistic flashback to Carol’s life before F4 (which hints at Kansas-and-Oz parallels to the main story: her home is destroyed by an F4 tornado, and F4 is also the initials of her lame, best-she-could-get boyfriend’s band). Glasser goes further than that, though, plunging deep into the confused, queasy mix of lust and dysphoria that is Carol’s (and not just Carol’s) sexuality. Though I quite can’t call a manic puke-fest like this “emotionally moving” with a straight face, it’s gutsy writing that will hit trans women hard, and should be a headrush for anyone.

I finally finished this book and can say with certainty that it totally shreds!! i've always been a wannabe goth and reading this book i feel so many new chances and inspirations to express that side of me. It's extremely inviting and inclusive, which is surprising given just how fantastical and slimy the world of this novel is. It's a very fast-paced read, and could easily be a 6-volume trilogy and still be just as gripping. However, there's a lot here that warrants close and slower reading. Each phrase is jam packed with juicy details and imagery and smells! this book literally stinks!! also Carol is the trans superhero of my dreams and it's so good to read such unapologetic transsexual superpowers.some critiques is that because it's so short, some details kinda appear out of nowhere, and there's only a few of the characters that get good development. but those that do (carol, roz most notable) are actually quite complex for such a skinny book.anyways 10/10 would recommend to any human (especially the cisgenders cause y'all really need to learn).Thank you Larissa Glasser!!

A gory, sticky, pulpy rollercoaster. Imagine if the movie Society took place on a cruise vessel built on the insides of a kaiju, featured strong transgender women as the heroes, and included a cult of alt-right internet trolls. This roughly sums up F4, but barely scrapes the amount of weirdness trapped between these pages. This is violent, bonkers fun, and worth your time if you're looking for something far out of the ordinary.

This crowded, chaotic novella weaves kaiju, cybernetics, all sorts of monsters, culture wars between cis bros and magnificent trans dykes, and much more into a phantasmagoric, gory, spermy, sweary, sweaty fever-dream with the most heart warming climax. Highly recommended to fellow SJW metalheads, bizzaro fans, and perhaps someone looking to find something that evokes the queer, sfnal kick William Burroughs shorn of misogyny and with more gunplay than the old wife-killer ever dreamed off.One complaint: this ebook needed another round of line editing.