This review was originally posted on Sincerely Soulful on November 19, 2019

This book! This book lulled me into a sense of safety. Of parody. It started off with some humour and some levity. I was expecting it to be a parody of horror. To make fun of the genre and the tropes. I was happily enjoying that lightness of the first half of the novel. I was enjoying it. It was a good laugh until the carpet was ripped out from under me and I was left staring up at the horrors that came to be. It gave me whiplash so intense that my mind was lost and confused and hungry to know more. I was like those employees, locked inside Orsk wanting to understand, see the truth, and completely scared and horrified with the outcome!

This book was the first horror book I have read in a long time that actually scared me. I think a huge part of that was the fact that I was not expecting what came. The characters were real and complicated and funny. They were different and felt like a group of people you would randomly find in a retail job. It was just amazing. It was so amazing that I want to read more from Grady Hendrix going forward. If this is his style of horror I think it is a style that I will love.

4.5 stars