This book is one of the best books I’ve ever read. It’s dark, depressing, gruesome, gory, terrifying, funny, and at moments hopeful but also realistic and fantastical all wrapped in one.

As I was reading about Cora Zeng, I couldn’t help but want to just hug her. I haven’t felt so much love for a character in so long. She’s so broken and feels like she’s been living in the shadow of her amazing sister for her entire life. And for some reason she’s fine with that.

Trying to come up with words on what this book is about is insanely difficult. This book is a personification of pandemic fears written from the Female Asian perspective set in the largest city of America during the lockdown and after.

The pandemic is something we all lived through, but to feel the pain, fear, dread, and loss from a perspective that isn’t white is absolutely haunting.

What’s hard is, I want to shove this book into every single person’s hands, but I know that won’t go over well. The book is haunting and extremely gory. I haven’t read a book that actually scared me for many, many years.

This book is brutal. It doesn’t hold back. And it’s heartbreaking and shocking. The first chapter exploded and it never stopped. I was left feeling pain and sadness.

I want Cora Zeng to have a life filled with love. I hope if she’s out there, she’s smiling and happy. I haven’t wanted that for a character in a long,long time.

Just a phenomenal book. Will definitely live on my top horror books of all time.