ik from reading a lot of reviews of this that the slow pace didn’t work for a lot of people and i get that. but jesus what scares me in horror isnt the scary things but the suspense, and this had killer suspense with its page count and pace.
also this has some freaky body horror, with Gyre’s suit??? terrifying that in this universe capitalist space-mining has gone so far that there are surgeries to rearrange your organs so you can stay underground for as long as (literally) physically possible. for me that was easily the scariest aspect of this book
for a while i was like “🤨idk if this is gonna be a 5 star read, em and gyre are pretty flat characters🤨” but yknow what? fuck it of course theyre flat its a life or death situation and of course theyre not thinking and talking about their entire lives, they’re focusing on gyre escaping the cave
<3 i love this book and it terrified me