Transmuted

Title: Transmuted
Author: Eve Harms
Series: Rewind or Die #30
First Published: July 15, 2021
Publisher: Unnerving
Pages: 71
Genre: Horror, LGBTQ
Format: Ebook
Source: Kindle Unlimited
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Synopsis:

Her doctor is giving her the body of his dreams...and her nightmares.

Isa is a micro-celebrity who rarely shows her face, and can’t wait to have it expertly ripped off and rearranged to look more feminine. When a successful fundraiser makes her gender affirming surgery possible, she’s overjoyed—until she has to give up all her money to save her dying father.

Crushed by gender dysphoria and the pressure of disappointing her fans who paid for a new face, she answers a sketchy ad seeking transgender women for a free, experimental feminization treatment. The grotesquely flawless Dr. Skurm has gruesome methods, but he gets unbelievable results, and Isa is finally feeling comfortable in her skin. She even gains the courage to ask out her crush: an alluring and disfigured alchemy-obsessed artist named Rayna.

But Isa’s body won’t stop changing, and she’s going from super model to super mutant. She has to discover the secret behind her metamorphosis—before the changes are irreversible, and she’s an unwanted freak forever.

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Review

Transmuted is a wild medical horror story with some of the best body horror I’ve read in a while. The story follows a trans woman who finds herself desperate after having to give up the money she had saved for facial feminization surgery to try and save her estranged father. I really adored Isa, a lively but depressed VTuber trying to keep her head above water navigating gender dysphoria, strained family relationships, and internet hate. She was a believable character that reminded me of some of my closest friends and I rooted for her the entire way. The desperate choices that Isa makes are understandable and the extreme social pressure placed on the trans community is keenly felt.

The pacing of the story is unwieldy and intense, like a pot on the verge of boiling over and I didn’t want to put the book down. This story is unhinged and by the end borders on being wacky, I wasn’t thrilled with the direction the plot went and the bizarre ending but everything else up to that point was so great the pros far outweighed the cons. Transmuted is a real treat with an original plot I couldn’t help but admire.

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