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Fantastic so far. Stephen Graham Jones never misses!

I didn’t realize there would be religious references but they don’t take over the book in any way. The writing style is really engaging and I love that the author ends each portion with a recap. This sounds cheesy but I already utilized one of his suggestions to de-escalate an argument and it worked beautifully.

I’m obsessed with this so far because the synopsis on the back of the book tells a specific story and then the prologue gives us absolutely zero context about that story. It’s about something totally different. The two don’t even seem related even though I know they will be eventually and I just adore that. Also, mixed media and a podcast element? Hell yeah!

Just as I briefly thought the pacing was starting to slow, things ratcheted up to a full throttle. I’m convinced that was on purpose, to lull the reader into a false sense of the narrative just plodding along just to explode it all. SO GOOD.

This book is so bizarre and unsettling and I am fully obsessed.

I’m so disoriented and I’m loving every second of it. SGJ has such an incredible way of pulling the reader right into the middle of the story!

SO GOOD. I’m consistently impressed at how well Stephen Graham Jones writes the inner monologue of teenage girls.