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A review by kivt
A Cosmology of Monsters by Shaun Hamill
3.0
i shoulda noticed & been warned off this book by it being a goodreads award nominee. it wasn’t terrible, and some of the creepy bits were quite good. its themes and metaphors got real confused, which made it way less enjoyable than it could have been.
-hereditary mental illness like depression is like a monster that’s stalked your family for generations. no one wants to speak openly about it for fear of making it more real, which builds up years of lies that make it more powerful. everyone has to find the strength to be honest with each other in order to share information & process their trauma, which is the first step down the only path to defeat the monster for good. cool & excellent
-maybe depression is also a literal monster, tho? and your family deals with the unspoken but undeniable knowledge that you’re prey to something uncanny by obsessing over the haunted house you run as your main source of income. ok, cool
-every member of your family is obsessed with lovecraft enough to quote from his work extensively and leave his books around every setting of the story, to the point this book could serve as a library catalog. ehhhhhhh
-the depression monster is a sexy lady and you can fuck it
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-hereditary mental illness like depression is like a monster that’s stalked your family for generations. no one wants to speak openly about it for fear of making it more real, which builds up years of lies that make it more powerful. everyone has to find the strength to be honest with each other in order to share information & process their trauma, which is the first step down the only path to defeat the monster for good. cool & excellent
-maybe depression is also a literal monster, tho? and your family deals with the unspoken but undeniable knowledge that you’re prey to something uncanny by obsessing over the haunted house you run as your main source of income. ok, cool
-every member of your family is obsessed with lovecraft enough to quote from his work extensively and leave his books around every setting of the story, to the point this book could serve as a library catalog. ehhhhhhh
-the depression monster is a sexy lady and you can fuck it