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juushikaTitle: Woodworm (Carcoma)
Author: Layla Martinez
Translator: Sophia Hugues, Annie McDermott
Narrator: Raquel Beattie
Published: Tantor Media, 2025 (2021)
Rating: 2.5 of 5
Page Count: 125
Total Page Count: 564,210
Text Number: 2133
Read Because: browsing available-now horror audiobooks for literally anything not YA, audiobook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: In alternating chapters, a granddaughter/grandmother pair reveal what really happened when a local child went missing. The vibes here are fantastic: there's an unconventional haunted house dense with untrustworthy spirits and transporting saints, and the narrators have a bitter, rotting, worthy anger rooted in their experiences of gender and class. But the plot doesn't live up to the strong open. The dual narrative and dangling reveal don't make for much, and this sheds much of its animosity without offering anything substantial in exchange. I'm grateful for more Spanish works in translation, but not all of them are bound to work for me; I wanted to like this more than I did.
Author: Layla Martinez
Translator: Sophia Hugues, Annie McDermott
Narrator: Raquel Beattie
Published: Tantor Media, 2025 (2021)
Rating: 2.5 of 5
Page Count: 125
Total Page Count: 564,210
Text Number: 2133
Read Because: browsing available-now horror audiobooks for literally anything not YA, audiobook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: In alternating chapters, a granddaughter/grandmother pair reveal what really happened when a local child went missing. The vibes here are fantastic: there's an unconventional haunted house dense with untrustworthy spirits and transporting saints, and the narrators have a bitter, rotting, worthy anger rooted in their experiences of gender and class. But the plot doesn't live up to the strong open. The dual narrative and dangling reveal don't make for much, and this sheds much of its animosity without offering anything substantial in exchange. I'm grateful for more Spanish works in translation, but not all of them are bound to work for me; I wanted to like this more than I did.
