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 Very fast paced, terrifying look into the mind of a sadistic rapist and someone who enables him.

I think there was a lot of good about this book, it was genuinely terrifying and disturbing to read.

I did find that the way it was written, the lack of quotation marks indicating speech for example, made it hard to understand who exactly was talking during certain points. But other than that it was definitely worth the read. 

This book took me some time to finish, but I really did enjoy all the characters and the adventure they went on together. I laughed, I cried - it moved me, Bob.

I found this book to be excellently paced, an easy read and that it had a very satisfying ending for all the characters involved. I also found Elizabeth's inability to read social cues to be very relatable, a neurodivergent quee 


Breezed through this book. It surprised me with both engaging writing and loveable, if not problematic, characters. 

Great spooky read. The perfect length for a story like this, with an unexpected and terrifying ending. 

The prose in this was phenomenal and I found myself highlighting passages left and right. Highly recommend if you like thoughtful and disturbing stories.

First of all - I lost the game (your welcome)

I had high hopes for this book but was ultimately disappointed. The concept is great, but the whole game being vague and unclear made the middle section of this story drag on. 
There were too many characters and none of them got the attention they deserved except for Fox and Brandt and Death. Everyone else felt like an afterthought.

This was very muddled. There are some really interesting ideas hidden in a bloated story. The writing can be beautiful at times but there is just too much going on it distracts from the message.  

There are some great ideas in this book, but there are also too many ideas in this book. The transhumanism is such a fascinating trope to explore, but it isn't well explored here unfortunately. The author also over explains everything, showing and telling at every turn. An example would be, a character sees the ghost (yes, there is a ghost...) before they get killed, then the ghost explicitly states "you can only see me before you get killed." Like,  yes, I gathered that from context. Or another example, "our affair is killing people" after reading 300 pages of people dying as a result of their affair. 

There are so many interesting ideas that are not well fleshed out. Transhumanism, bodily autonomy, infertility, misogyny, AI, sexual assault, motherhood, gender identity, racism, the corruption inherent to capitalism and so so so much more. I think if it was trimmed down and cleaned up this has a lot of potential. If it stuck with the concept of re-uploading consciousness into new bodies after death and how certain bodies hold more social value that would have been great, it touches on this but doesn't flesh it out very well because it doesn't focus on it. It could have been an excellent discussion on how we as a society place value on certain types of people, and value other bodies less.  

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Wow, just wow. 
This is a beautiful depiction of a mans decent into grief, what it makes him and how he chooses to grow from what it has made him. 

The artwork is phenomenal. I especially loved the soft pencil-like work when there are flash-backs to Shelley and Eric while they were alive contracted with the rough ink-blotch style of Eric as the Crow. 

Really enjoyed this read. I liked Iris as a FMC and thought the romance was engaging and entertaining. Excited for the final book in the series :)

I really found the middle of this book dragged quite a bit, and for a book under 300 pages it felt much much longer. The absurdity of the ending does not make up for how dry the majority of the book was.