i really liked this book and appreciated the focus being on a 49 year old woman going through pre menopause. the horror aspects were fantastic and you can truly tell that the author was a big fan of Carrie (even though this feels INCREDIBLY removed in a good way), because of how this felt like an homage to the story. though i loved that aspect, i felt like the book could easily have been 50-100 pages shorter and dragged significantly around the 60-75% mark. I also felt that it was way too heavy handed with the reminders about how society doesn’t value older women and aging women are ignored. i wish it had done it a bit more between the lines rather than holding my hand through it.