Out of all the horror I've read, this one is up there with Octavia Butler's Bloodchild in terms of shear nastiness - in a good way. It's very visceral, and would make such a lovely film adaptation - very cinematic!

The story is told in an absolutely lovely way, with looping connections and distant conversations within the narrative itself - that kinda shit. Delightful.

The use of 2nd person perspective was really good, much better than I've seen it used before (aka, not cringey and offputting, lol). The only gripe I have is that the

sudden basketball game with a supernatural beast

was kind of silly conceptually, but i was engaged throughout anyways