The Reading Frog’s Reviews > A Cold Glow > Status Update

"(...) a non-threat pushed forth by dubious propaganda, but the admin, with its fatherly words of protection, keeps hundreds of millions misinformed even now-keeps them on-edge and liable to pull those closest to them down, their thoughts on survival instead of corrupt bureaucracy.
(...)
And if you're wondering, everyone's guilty."

—I think this book is gonna be the type that'll have me stare at the wall afterwards

HELLOO???!! CRAZY REVEAL TIME HOLY SHIT!!
Dropped my page turner because of it lol

"Fuck off, Anne. You making me your hostage?"

"I'm helping you broaden your reach! Could you not run? You don't normally do that." He does. He always does that. But he must believe he has agency.

— The mind games Anna and George are playing with the ppl unaware of this timehole are so interesting. Implying there's choice, when clearly everything about this day has been carefully crafted.

"(...)I'd have one Negroni to join that. As an apéritif. To commemorate. Like for me, just one. And for him, to show him I could be normal. (...)"

"You wanted to drink."(...)

"Well. Everyone drank at his li'l Christofascist party last night, I didn't say shit."

(...) "You wanted to transcend your addiction but you're an addict! It's not slaying a dragon, it's keeping it at the gates."

—Oh Gets... :(

"You've been here before? So, you're a time traveler."

(...) "No, Arturo. I'm not a time traveler. (...) I'm a time prisoner."

—Can't even really blame Anna and/or George for anything, because who wouldn't become, in the very least, slightly unhinged when trapped in a time hole forever.

"If this whole day were your house, what would you do? (...) You don't realize this, but from sun-up to sun-up it's yours, man. We know everything that happens today, virtually everywhere. And with that, we can do a whole lot of... I mean, whatever you want, really. (...)

You'll be surprised how little a day limits."

— She really took that 'anything' to heart fr

"I quit my residency in April of 2021 because I'd grown fond of watching people die."

—Crazy chapter opener, love it 👏

"Amy's parents aren't interested in saving her (...) No one is saving any of us. Raging in the face of all this manufactured doom is the point. I won't let the oldheads take more from my future, write my story for me. (...)

I'll mark this world before anyone or anything tells me otherwise, and my mark won't hurt those who come after."


— Love this mix of emotionally charged narrative and social political commentary

"We thought the first few days in the time hole were the worst but we've officially entered the nightmare proper. At least the first few days brought the gift of confusion. We have to endure ocular torture every time just to piece together more information on the craft from the sea."

An UAP, body horror, time shenanigans, and the absolute horror of being the only two aware of this time hole? Yeah, I'm locking in.

Peep that cover BTW. Just absolutely gorgeous 👌

I believe it was made by @HolyAphordite on IG