Briana Reilly’s Reviews > The Staircase in the Woods > Status Update

“Friendship is like a house. You move into this place together, you find your own room there, and they find theirs. But, there’s all this common space, all these shared places. And you each put into it all the things you love, all the things you are. Your air becomes their air. You put your hearts on the coffee table, next to the remote control, vulnerable, and beautiful and bloody.”

*need more space dangit

I’m really enjoying this so far esp great as an audiobook

Very much enjoying the friend group banter and dynamics. This feels reminiscent of a Stephen King story, though it’s been well over a decade since I’ve read anything of his. Definitely want to revisit. This type of horror writing that’s character development focused has always appealed most to me.