The premise is typical for gangster action thrillers, and at the beginning the novel feels reminiscent of “From Dusk Till Dawn.” But the deeper the heroes climb into the wilderness, the more the author spends blood on the pages, transforming the genre— as is customary to say—into “domestic splatterpunk.”
The famous Adams family is nothing compared to the family living in the wilderness in an Orange House. A paralyzed grandmother is quite happy to taste fresh blood; nine-year-old Oleg readily eats newly born rat pups; and Dina tortures the people caught in her hands with pleasure in the basement.
Yarik and Mitrych’s brothers, as well as their friend Ruta, who found shelter here, had to endure every torment of hell before they understood: whoever ended up in the Orange House doesn’t come back out alive…