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A review by its_eel
This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno
3.75
literally such good chills from this book and i could quite easily imagine the visuals in this book like a horror movie. very creepy and unsettling. A24 should snap this up and adapt it ASAP.
i re-read the ending a couple times and didn’t quite follow it. felt like a couple of paragraphs or a particular link was missing, i couldn’t quite piece the outcome of the entire story together. it didn’t throw off the book completely for me, it just felt like there was a strong tone shift that didn’t lock everything in for me.
in particular with the ending, i wondered if it was supposed to be clear that Thiago was doing a lot of things because he was actually possessed by the “entity” (not sure what else to call it) and didn’t remember it/actually might have caused his wife’s death, but i just didn’t conpletely believe that and i wish that it could have been clearer that Thiago was possessed this whole time. not a huge fan of the cops saving the day ending by killing (but not really) the monster/entity/demon/Thiago’s secret self.
big content warning for animal death, gore, sooeeside
i re-read the ending a couple times and didn’t quite follow it. felt like a couple of paragraphs or a particular link was missing, i couldn’t quite piece the outcome of the entire story together. it didn’t throw off the book completely for me, it just felt like there was a strong tone shift that didn’t lock everything in for me.
in particular with the ending, i wondered if it was supposed to be clear that Thiago was doing a lot of things because he was actually possessed by the “entity” (not sure what else to call it) and didn’t remember it/actually might have caused his wife’s death, but i just didn’t conpletely believe that and i wish that it could have been clearer that Thiago was possessed this whole time. not a huge fan of the cops saving the day ending by killing (but not really) the monster/entity/demon/Thiago’s secret self.
big content warning for animal death, gore, sooeeside