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Jess, drunkenly calls out Crane that if he wanted to abort he would’ve done it, but she doesn’t know about the Hive, Levi, Stagger
Jess is pregnant w Levi’s baby! She wanted it gone, so now she’s bleeding out and Crane is struggling to get her to the hospital, risking breaking the rules, can’t tell Tammy she’s too loyal
Levi is at the foot of the stairs, he used up his one chance to break a rule...leaving the house
— Mar 26, 2026 11:45AM
Jess is pregnant w Levi’s baby! She wanted it gone, so now she’s bleeding out and Crane is struggling to get her to the hospital, risking breaking the rules, can’t tell Tammy she’s too loyal
Levi is at the foot of the stairs, he used up his one chance to break a rule...leaving the house
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Note: recommend to others with caution as there are several TWs but SA is mentioned and severe suicidal ideation is a large part of this story
— Mar 26, 2026 02:26PM
Z
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-audiobook volumes varied: Whispered emotes of characters vs the loud Hive voice required me to adjust volumes
-flashback bloat made the side characters seem less developed (would’ve liked more from Jess or Aspen/Birdie or just less flashbacks)
-Reason behind killing of baby felt off to me (the fact I can analyze this means the story was engaging, tho)
4.5* round to 5 b/c writing style and unique reading experience
— Mar 26, 2026 02:23PM
-flashback bloat made the side characters seem less developed (would’ve liked more from Jess or Aspen/Birdie or just less flashbacks)
-Reason behind killing of baby felt off to me (the fact I can analyze this means the story was engaging, tho)
4.5* round to 5 b/c writing style and unique reading experience
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I don’t mind lack of characterization of Levi (as he represents the Hive who represents.. well…) but I would have liked more from Jess or Birdie/Aspen (I wouldn’t need this but with the consistent flashbacks to his dead-name's life, it became off-balance)
+body horror to the max with a killer opening line
+aliensss
+transgender experience
+listed TWs
+Hive voice in audiobook was unsettling
+writing style
— Mar 26, 2026 02:22PM
+body horror to the max with a killer opening line
+aliensss
+transgender experience
+listed TWs
+Hive voice in audiobook was unsettling
+writing style
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Honestly, when the baby’s fate was sealed I didn’t expect it to be out of mercy, I really thought it would’ve been more resentment, an eff you for forcing Crane into the confines of a role cut out for a gender; because if it’s a mercy kill then honestly, even in a “not-right” mind, Crane killed the Hive anyway so why do it all out of order, kill everyone, take baby to parents then dip to Cali to find Jess
— Mar 26, 2026 02:15PM
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“It wasn’t that Crane wanted her dead. It was just that she was never going to survive what it took for him to crawl out of her.” (Crane, speaking about his dead-name)
It’s gory in a way that takes body horror to the next level, taking the parts of us, the insides, and puts them outside for us to stare at: autonomy, gender, monstrosities of being human
— Mar 26, 2026 02:14PM
It’s gory in a way that takes body horror to the next level, taking the parts of us, the insides, and puts them outside for us to stare at: autonomy, gender, monstrosities of being human
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Crane eats her jugular, reminiscent on the nature docs he saw where mothers eat their young
Levi dives for him but Stagger gets Levi first, he shoots his shotgun wide as Stagger hit him again and Tammy is shot dead, then Stagger, Levi’s head is crushed in
Crane leaves the baby tucked into Stagger
Shotgun jams so Crane takes a hammer and kills Levi then finishes off the Hive
Wraps up baby and FaceTimes his parents
— Mar 26, 2026 01:59PM
Levi dives for him but Stagger gets Levi first, he shoots his shotgun wide as Stagger hit him again and Tammy is shot dead, then Stagger, Levi’s head is crushed in
Crane leaves the baby tucked into Stagger
Shotgun jams so Crane takes a hammer and kills Levi then finishes off the Hive
Wraps up baby and FaceTimes his parents
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Jess tells them to give them their phone # and then gtfo cuz Levi is one bad guy, that Crane will contact when he’s ok
Jess drives to Cali
Levi’s scar wriggles... the Hive
“The father’s compatibility with our flesh; the mother’s bitterness and hunger and submission.
She will be perfect. She will be beautiful. She will carry us into the sun.”
Crane fears that Hive will do to his daughter what they did to him
— Mar 26, 2026 01:59PM
Jess drives to Cali
Levi’s scar wriggles... the Hive
“The father’s compatibility with our flesh; the mother’s bitterness and hunger and submission.
She will be perfect. She will be beautiful. She will carry us into the sun.”
Crane fears that Hive will do to his daughter what they did to him
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He takes keys to Levi’s truck, tosses them to Jess along with his go-bag that was confiscated from him, makes Stagger go inside to prevent Levi from coming out
Crane’s parents drive in to gas station, don’t recognize him at first
They were good parents but believed Crane’s lies that he was ok
They want him to be ok despite being disfigured, silent, pregnant and male. They want him to come home
— Mar 26, 2026 01:58PM
Crane’s parents drive in to gas station, don’t recognize him at first
They were good parents but believed Crane’s lies that he was ok
They want him to be ok despite being disfigured, silent, pregnant and male. They want him to come home
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Stagger brushes his teeth, bathes him, gets in tub w him and does a C section on himself so Crane can dig inside, grab a worm
Levi must’ve known Stagger before the Hive made him into this
They squish the worm dead together then kiss
He goes into labor and he’s not afraid of dying but of dying a woman or not being allowed to die at all
He goes out for a smoke break (HA) w Jess
— Mar 26, 2026 01:57PM
Levi must’ve known Stagger before the Hive made him into this
They squish the worm dead together then kiss
He goes into labor and he’s not afraid of dying but of dying a woman or not being allowed to die at all
He goes out for a smoke break (HA) w Jess
Z
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Levi has a keloid scar
Crane plans to leave baby w Tammy and Levi
Levi won’t let Jess in until she threatens to tell the Hive what he did to Hannah (UGH)
Crane admits mental illness stopped his dreams, thinks how nothing happened to him but Jess was found in a boarded up room, her mental state has more “reason"
Though her at-home attempt failed Jess took pills and Crane couldn’t, the Hive got to him first
— Mar 26, 2026 12:27PM
Crane plans to leave baby w Tammy and Levi
Levi won’t let Jess in until she threatens to tell the Hive what he did to Hannah (UGH)
Crane admits mental illness stopped his dreams, thinks how nothing happened to him but Jess was found in a boarded up room, her mental state has more “reason"
Though her at-home attempt failed Jess took pills and Crane couldn’t, the Hive got to him first
