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My thoughts

2 nope, not at fucking all by 5 stars Have I finally read the greatest horror novel of this decade? yes. did i enjoy it eve one bit? no lol. did i feel spooky/creeped out/horror-y even once? i wish. i fucking wish... i salute the author for the amount of work/energy this book would have taken to write, from footnotes to references to the weird formatting. but oh god apart from that pretentiousness, what is the story? fucking joke is what. i would try to describe but it's barely 3 lines and I'd rather not spoil even that for anyone. i am sorry, there is barely any plot to begin with and when something does begin to happen, we obviously have a 5-page monologue/rambling of a completely different timeline by the main character. how tf am i supposed to feel spooked by any of that?? Needless to say this was a fucking waste of time and money lmao. Book Trigger Warnings: graphic violence, death and murder, violent animal death, suicide, sexual content, physical abuse, sexual assault and rape, mental illness, loss of a parent, institutionalization, foster care, infidelity, child abuse, incest, sexual abuse of children, body horror, drug abuse, overdose