Review: The Banquet by Villimey Mist

Maria Lopez, a survivor of a sexual assault, receives an invitation to “The Banquet,” an annual gathering of women who have been sexually assaulted. Other attendees have more than their assaults in common with Maria: the perpetrators of their assaults all went unpunished by the legal system. Where the victims weren’t vindicated through the judicial system, they will find satisfaction in bloody revenge.

With this being a short story, I don’t want to give too much away, but this was a brilliant story of bloody revenge. I had been following Mist on Twitter during the incidents that inspired this story and this story is the result. This was my first foray into reading Mist’s work, but not the last. Anyone who can pack that much blood and gore and revenge into 37 short pages and tell a complete tale is aces in my book.

5/5 Stars

Thank you to the author for providing me with a copy of the story for reading and review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.