DNF @ 33%. this book is "what if godzilla halo jump but mOrE" with shit world building and meh character work and lame social commentary and nothing but action and while it was fine to listen to while building a lego set, i have no desire to continue. audiobook narrator was great. 

Officially throwing in the towel on this one at 17%. I've tried my hardest but I can't seem to bring myself to care enough about the characters or the plot setup to go on. 

This has a promising premise: our main character Ophelia is a psychologist specializing in ERS, which is a space-based condition that can cause people to go mad and possibly murder their fellow crew. Ophelia is assigned to a ship that just lost a crew member in an attempt to help them process and hopefully prevent ERS. The ship docks somewhere and I presume that horror ensues from there. I didn't get far enough to even get to the horror bits, which is a shame.

The main roadblock for me here was the characters and the plot setup. Ophelia is part of a billionaire corporate family, and she's escaping some sort of big dust up that her family is involved in when she accepts the assignment. The crew on the ship don't appreciate her coming into their space while they're mourning, and the tension from the outset just feels so...contrived. It feels stupid. It made me absolutely dislike every single person in this book, especially Ophelia. 

I love the idea of space horror, and I want more of it. I just wish I could have gone on longer with this one, but I just couldn't.

Many thanks to Tor Nightfire and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this ARC.

DNF @ page 67. Felt way too literary for my tastes, and was also incredibly boring.

DNF @ page 115. The narrative voice in this is bothering me too much to keep on reading. Like it tries too hard to be satirical and ironic but just come across as someone from r/iam13andthisisdeep wrote what they imagine what the digital future holds for us and how an apocalypse would occur during it. There was also a strange distancing effect in the writing when we weren't directly in Zhen's narrative, like it was done on purpose to keep us from divining the whole apocalypse reveal too early on. I hated it.

Also, I knew the characters names about 20 pages in. Alderman didn't have to use their first AND last names every other time they showed up on page again. Jeez.

DNF @ 60% because I have a fucking limit and it just got crossed so hard I can't even parse the lines of text I just read. Jesus Christ.

i need to stop trying to make gothic happen for me. i just can't vibe. 

I need someone to spoil the whole Mister Magic reveal for me because I had to DNF @ 36%. This is SO boring. Not even the intrigue of what happened when they were on this kids show is enough to get me to care about any of these people. Kiersten White's horror just isn't for me.

DNF @ 11%. Not sure what I was expecting, but it wasn't a transcript of dialogue between the author and her therapist. It felt incredibly dry. I can see how it has resonated with many people, though. 

 Soft DNF @ page 178. Interesting, but my brain is NOT handling this well right now. Loved the first part, but once it transitioned to the hard sci-fi, my brain noped out. Will definitely give this a try again in the future, maybe after I watch the upcoming TV series.