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Uh oh. Still 6 hours to go and I…. Don’t care anymore. Guaranteed to lose me at an energetic, but dismissive consideration of the presence of free will in fucking TUBULIN dear good lord anyone who claims that free will is located in tubules has GOT to be trolling

This man single-handedly gentrified his entire neighborhood in an alternate life

I am not having a good time. Everyone here sucks.

It’s horror, but not in the sense of “scary horror”. It’s just horrifying horror that leaves you feeling contaminated and irritable.

Weird religion-flavored horror hijinks

Not a fan of Robin so far. His desire to avoid conflict has been driving decision after decision that is cowardly, obtuse, naive etc. I was hoping his character growth would be a little farther along by the 43% mark, but so far his worldview has only been challenged a little bit.

It would help if he was at least clever at academics while I was waiting for character development, but he seems mediocre/oblivious.

There was a downright delightful ecological horror sequence right in the middle here. Like ‘Annihilation’ style mutations and dread.

The author, as if to prove a point, then wrote a description in a sex scene that horrified me more than any of the abominations from the previous sequence. Classic Robert Jackson Bennett.

Rolling along surprisingly well, given how much I disliked the first one. Some weird stuff going on with Din’s characterization but honestly not bad. Enjoyable mystery and eldritch abomination science.

It helps that I was mentally prepared for all the spit, vomit, urine, mold/fungi, gross smells, etc. Expectations!

Refreshing despite the dark content. Things this book has that Masters of Death lacked:

1) complex characters that do bad things, but you can genuinely see where they’re all coming from
2) there’s more than one intriguing question for the reader to ponder at the 30% mark
3) characters have inner thoughts, not just spoken thoughts