I don't read horror, but I loved the podcast by the same name and gave this book a go. I did not expect it to give me nightmares, but it did. Even so, it isn't a pure horror book. It is a book about anxiety and living with it, it is about creating coping mechanisms and networks of friends that help us get through the scary things in life, whether those things are made up by our brain or very, very real.

Author Joseph Fink best summarizes what I loved most about this book: "Through the course of this book, Keisha faces genuine danger and terrifying creatures while also struggling with baseline anxiety. Just because fear is often irrational, doesn’t mean the world isn’t a scary place. Anxiety can't be fixed, but it can be lived with. It was important to me that Keisha not be corrected, that her character arc not be the story of her overcoming anxiety, and coming out the other end sere and well-adjusted. That’s not how brains work. She finished this story as anxious as when she started, but with the knowledge that she can live with that anxiety. "