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Where Black Stars Rise by Nadia Shammas, Marie Enger
4.0

A brand new therapist takes on a patient with schizophrenia that she doesn’t do very well by, though her intent is do so. When the patient goes missing she goes in search for her, unable to let it go, and this leads her own spiral, extrapolated into a horrific experience.

I haven’t really read any eldritch horror before and I can’t say that particular aspect did much for me. I really liked that it treated mental illness quite well in that context, which I think is hard to do. And I liked the characters and the arc quite a bit. The art style wasn’t my favourite and the binding in this paperback is wildly tight, so it’s actually a difficult book to rate. I ended up with a 3.5 rounded up, because I’m mostly positive on it!