Well that was… interesting.

To anyone who is wondering if they should read the book, I’d say yes, BUT know that we don’t get a good resolution. I’m hoping someone has written good fanfic for a better ending. But I think everything else is pretty solid until there - claustrophobic caving, Everest climbing, mysteries, etc. Know also that part 2 will feel very different from part 1 - part of it is because we get two perspectives, but part of it is more than that, and I think that’s a writing/editing error. 

If you write fanfiction (or if you’re the author and want to release an amended version) please do!!! My preference is

for it to be supernatural, but more expanded, that we get the memorials on Everest and the cave! Maybe a horror trope of seeing someone else about to start on the same journey?

My own notes
- wow I think it took me way too long to figure out who the woman was. Interesting though. 
- claustrophobia of caving I think is done better in books like Luminous Dead and the Maw and Ted the Caver, but still pretty good
- I think I’ve read an Everest climbing book before and a lot of it felt similar, though I guess there are only really 2 paths to Everest so it makes sense 
- the ending is just insane in an awful way - I think that’s why most people have rated it so low