I’m torn between giving a rating of 3 and 4.
This book is unlike anything I’ve read, and as a jaded reader of the horror genre, that is worth something.
How did the writer conjure up such scenes? All I want to do is take a peek into the writer’s mind.

It is such a pity that the writing technique is unsatisfactory in this one. The sentences are way too long, and the writer uses the same conjunctions over and over again. I don’t understand why this wasn’t flagged out during the editing. Hasn’t anybody realised this?!

The story on the other hand stands out like a star. No doubt reading the beginning was a rather painful task to complete, but the story became much more entertaining after, especially during Jacob, Diana, and Kal’s portion. The writing really undermined the story a lot. What I wanted very much to do was just enjoyed this as a movie instead. It would have fared so much better. I feel that the writing does the story injustice. The gory scenes were very gory and frightening indeed. What the hell, how did the writer dream up characters like that? Absolutely terrific job! I particularly like the lady screaming for help in the river, trying not to drown. Yet when extended a helping hand, she grabbed onto it firmly while the other half of her body whipped up, featuring a gaping, vertical maw of swordlike teeth that snap at her rescuer.
There are a lot more stomach churning scenes. Like the one where Diana died in various torturous ways and each time was resurrected just to repeat the cycle.
I honestly liked the mid to late part of the book, and would have given a 4 or even a 5 if not for the writing technique used. Seriously, I find myself dreading to continue the book just because of that.

This book was an absolute gore-fest. If that is your thing, then you will positively adore it. I personally love a more interesting plot, where there's a gleam of intellect shining through it somewhere.
I do love a well-crafted, well-written horror novel. It just sadly cannot be said of this one. The plot was very confusing, adding way too many characters for anyone to reasonably follow. To make this even more difficult, the rate of killing of what may or may not, as it turns out; be main character(s), leaves one even more befuddled. This book is more tangled than the worlds and dimensions it hops through in a single chapter.
This book was a mess in more ways than one. The cherry on top is that the graphic and extremely detailed gory killings left one with a nauseous feeling after every read.

This book was provided to me by netgalley.

The Sister Verse and the Talons of Ruin by Amelie C. Langolis is a non-stop horror / sci-fi novel following a detective named John Sanders who at first appear to be slowly going insane due to the constant imagery in his mind and the relentlessness of a killer determined to end his life.

As the story progresses, we find he is involved in inter dimensional war taking place across six galaxies only for this to be part of the illusion in which John is living.

The Sister Verse and the Talons of Ruin is gore filled and pulsating, ramping up the excitement from the first page where mental as well as physical violence is prevalent.

Unfortunately, what makes this book so exciting can often be a problem. Scenarios and action filled set pieces seem to be thrown at the reader at an unyielding pace. It is a hugely imaginative book, however, ideas are thrust onto the reader sometimes to an extent that the story does not appear to settle for the reader or even character to take stock.

This is the first book in a planned series of four and I am looking forward to where Amelie C. Langolis is going to take us. Definitely pick this book up for its adrenaline as well as the creativity the writer shows in pulling in all different genres to tell the story.