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challenging
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
As liminal horror finds its way from creepypastas and video games into a full blown subgenre, Clarke enters with a dark fantasy that you will find as striking and inescapable as the labyrinth depicted inside. There's a lot of bad liminal horror and dark fantasy out there, where it's vaporwave for the sake of vaporwaveness, or has no real view of the modernity whose anxious underside it springs from, but Clarke's careful focus on academia, relationships and agency makes this work as sharp as a needle. Don't miss it.
Moderate: Gaslighting