Robin’s Review of Father Is Pleased

Father Is Pleased

After a bloody rite of passage, Felix becomes a True Son, one of Father’s chosen inner circle, someone with a special vantage on the secluded society of the Settlement of Passing in the Nothing Lands, where all brothers and sisters revere Father. Father is life, and Father is death, and Father governs rituals that guide his followers on their journeys to meet the void, as death is the greatest good and the only worthy desire. Felix witnesses and participates in many rituals: the violence and death linked to childbirth, the gut-ripping orgies that serve as theatre, the initiation of another young man in the art of sacrificing an outsider in a manner that will please Father, and more. Nothing pleases Felix like pleasing Father, and when Father takes notice, he points Felix toward a special destiny in the coming days when threats to their ways of honoring death will come from within.

Robin’s Review

Triggers: Body horror, religious trauma, graphic violence, familial abuse, cult behavior

Daddy Issues, But Make It Eldritch

What Did I Just Walk Into?

Mr. L. Andrew Cooper offers 133 pages of dread-drenched madness, where patriarchal nightmares and meat-slick rituals collide in the backwoods of Kentucky.

Here’s What Slapped:

Eleanor Voss didn’t just come home—she got summoned like a sacrificial lamb with repressed trauma and a side of existential dread. Daddy Silas is running a one-man cult worshipping “The Father,” a cryptid-god-thing that demands gratitude in the form of body parts, blood, and generational guilt.

And yes, this “Harvest of Gratitude” isn’t your average small-town potluck. It’s all flesh, no casserole.

There’s family secrets, ghost kids, haunted barns, and a grotesque final act that makes you question whether anyone in this book ever learned what healthy boundaries are. Spoiler: they did not.

Could’ve Been Better:

Only complaint? I need a support group now. Maybe some eye bleach. But that’s kinda the point, right?

Perfect for Readers Who Love:

📖 Religious horror with teeth

📖 Southern Gothic settings crawling with curses

📖 Dysfunctional families but make it extra

📖 Horror stories that smell like rot and moral decay

📖 When Daddy becomes The Daddy (and it’s gross)

Vibe Check:

Imagine if Shirley Jackson ghostwrote an episode of True Detective while binging Hellraiser and muttering “this is fine” into a jar of teeth.

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