Thomas’s Reviews > We Used to Live Here > Status Update

Here Kliewer reuses a line from his other series, “The man in my basement takes one step closer every week.”

“…it looks as though somebody else jumped inside Andrew’s mind for a second, took a quick look around, then jumped back out.” (We Used to Live Here)

“Almost like someone had crawled into his mind, taken a quick look around, and jumped back out.” (Basement)

I don’t know how I feel about it.

Read the first paragraph of this page and paused, very scared that this chapter will just be reheating House of Leaves’ nachos.

Laying out pieces that form a better picture but still some things left to be desired. There’s something here that I really do like but it’s done in a way that doesn’t feel like it’s engaging with its own premise enough. Past the halfway point so I don’t know, I could be wrong and casting judgement too early while there’s still room for me to be impressed - waiting to see more.

The buildup is there but I’m kind of expecting more. Little details that I like so far that don’t feel like they’re fully being capitalized on, but then again I’m about to finish the first third. So it’s probably just buildup like I said.