Overall, this was a fab little horror novella. Compulsively readable, and truly disturbing. 

The only reason it isn’t getting the full five stars is because

the final explanation of the birthing cycle made no sense. The Elders are using humans to birth their young - ok, makes sense. BUT, if all the young are born, then immediately become guardians of the next human ‘parent’, they will then be killed while they’re still a kid to facilitate the next birth. So they put all this effort into birthing a kid, then the kid just gets killed anyway? Is the point of the whole process the sacrifice? Because that’s not what it read like.

I don’t mind not getting answers in certain scenarios, but when holding back answers means the whole point of the book makes no sense, it ain’t great.