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soundoutside's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
sunshine_ghost's review against another edition
5.0
Don’t know what to say… ghastly, horrifying, the narrative both well-written and sucks you into a dreadful doom spiral. Not my usual horror pick but a random selection found on a library shelf and very glad I took the chance. I didn’t enjoy this book, but the story was so horrifying I couldn’t look away.
swajena's review against another edition
dark
emotional
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
eword97's review against another edition
2.0
The punctuation in this book is so bizarre that it was distracting. Periods and commas scattered throughout sentences that if read aloud would make you sound like you’re struggling through an asthma attack. The ending was fantastic but everything before maybe the last 5 pages became too repetitive and dull.
mbfox's review against another edition
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
zj5's review against another edition
5.0
Dark and weird and beautiful and violent. Koja is a truly fantastic author.
a_monkey's review against another edition
1.0
I didn’t enjoy this book, really didn’t enjoy it, it was a pretty grindingly formulaic kind of body horror but I kept reading waiting for the impossibly, really just impossibly difficult to follow or enjoy prose — Jim Phelps, burn THIS tape; just digressions and nonsequitirs all over the god damn show and flow on sentences that don’t count as sentences because they just don’t stop having words and grammar be damned — to resolve or justify itself but it never did, it just keeps going on and on in this borderline unreadable writers-workshop fashion, and the ironic thing is that this is a book about how scary it is for there to be an empty blank spot, but there’s a piece of punctuation that looks exactly like that, it’s called a full stop and it goes at the end
of sentences but this book just doesn’t want to use any of those to save its life. It’s physically uncomfortable to try and read. I couldn’t recommend it.
of sentences but this book just doesn’t want to use any of those to save its life. It’s physically uncomfortable to try and read. I couldn’t recommend it.