11 days ago
Co Creator: 
371
11
Posted On: October 5th 2026, 02:12 pm
Tagged Users:
The Suffering is an absolute tour de force in historic, religious horror. If ever a title summed up a book perfectly, this is it.
The isolated location set in the very depths of winter makes this story feel bleak from the outset, every fight for survival that bit more heightened. And to make that isolated setting a convent? Perfection.
Part plague, part zombie apocalypse, part supernatural horror, The Suffering never feels stale or predictable, and I can honestly say that this will firmly sit as one of my top reads for 2026. I never knew where the story would go, and honestly? I didn’t care: I just knew it would be an incredible journey.
When I say The Suffering is bleak, I truly mean it: winter at the top of an impassable mountain aside, the main characters are given such wholesome depth, such warmth, that it really emphasises the tension, gore, and bitterness of the plot. Hope is dangled in front of the reader, and whipped away just as quickly: quite literally, sometimes! The world-building is incredibly vivid, the historic language is there but doesn’t feel forced. The talent shown here is honestly mind-blowing (again, sometimes literally).
TLDR: The Suffering is an incredible book that I will recommend to everyone until the end of my days. Sodergren is absolutely an auto-buy author for me, the depth of his talent is phenomenal.
#horrorbooks #horrorbookreview #indiehorrorbooks #bookrec #bookstagram
The isolated location set in the very depths of winter makes this story feel bleak from the outset, every fight for survival that bit more heightened. And to make that isolated setting a convent? Perfection.
Part plague, part zombie apocalypse, part supernatural horror, The Suffering never feels stale or predictable, and I can honestly say that this will firmly sit as one of my top reads for 2026. I never knew where the story would go, and honestly? I didn’t care: I just knew it would be an incredible journey.
When I say The Suffering is bleak, I truly mean it: winter at the top of an impassable mountain aside, the main characters are given such wholesome depth, such warmth, that it really emphasises the tension, gore, and bitterness of the plot. Hope is dangled in front of the reader, and whipped away just as quickly: quite literally, sometimes! The world-building is incredibly vivid, the historic language is there but doesn’t feel forced. The talent shown here is honestly mind-blowing (again, sometimes literally).
TLDR: The Suffering is an incredible book that I will recommend to everyone until the end of my days. Sodergren is absolutely an auto-buy author for me, the depth of his talent is phenomenal.
#horrorbooks #horrorbookreview #indiehorrorbooks #bookrec #bookstagram
Comments (11)
More posts
