Status Updates From Echo

Uh oh. Nicky boy is no longer the one in control.

OH MY GOD. The italics are not Nick. Are they Sam? Day after he died? So Nick really never made it back, did he?

Ooooohhhh. Nick fucking knew. Nick dragged someone else there to be his sacrifice so the Maudit didn't have to take his soul to possess him.

He left Julia stranded???? So her death will be Nick's fault for SURE

Crazy I almost DNF'd this book. A24 would eat the script for this UP, but it has to be returned to its original form. Put Nick's entire manuscript back together.

Woah ho ho. Have you been loyal to this man only for him to have been LYING TO YOU the whole time? Did he orchestrate this to feel like a mountain god forever?

"A good horror story didn't end with death but with something worse."

And yet he goes forward, curiosity getting the best of him. Sam GETS IT.

SHE TASES HIM. ICONNNNN

Sam joking about his trauma in this moment is crazy work, but I feel ya buddy. It's funny.

I 100% think this editor made a mistake breaking up Nick's manuscript. Reading it all together is so important to the experience this author was trying to achieve--making you sit with this heavy truth as you experience Sam living through the different phases of his boyfriend's undoing.

Her actually singing Bohemian Rhapsody is hilarious

Cecile slapping him back to consciousness is fucking awesome

Oh my GOD. The people's god is walking amongst them. The god that lives in that valley of echoes and demands that eternal pain as payment for the afterlife. That's SICK.

Nick is disrupting the balance by making it out alive.

They split into the bird and the echo--the good and the bad. The new body and the old.

It's a cultist death practice. Only the good lives on in the birds, they say. IN-SANE.

Ohmygod it's a cult. It's a cult and a nightmare that's a lot nicer than city life to some folks.

THEY'RE POSTING ABOUT IT SO CASUALLY ON THE NEIGHBORHOOD APP????????

IT'S BECOME A YEARLY PRACTICE??????

The people started abusing this system and the system demanded balance? Is that what you're implying?

See, the fact that the villagers have adapted their lives around this phenomenon is wicked cool, but I just don't care. It took too long.

Anddds now they're back to shooting the ahit. Tension gone.

Oof. This is happening because Nick already took those pills. If you give him more, it's gonna get worse.

What's this? Suddenly there are stakes. Suddenly the danger is a little tangible.

Anddds then you ruin the coolness you had going for you by talking about him summoning the Maudit and not telling me anything about what that looks like.

The problem isn't that things aren't happening, it's that nobody is reacting to them. They're just happening. It's so boring