From the first page, this book scared me! I was consistently VERY UNSETTLED with the use of second person interludes not to refer to the reader, but to refer to the entity of you; you as an idea. Very unsettling. Yet amazing for a psychological horror novel. This book is profound, scary, full of intense symbolism, and will make you question your whole worldview. Even now I am still processing that ending. Definitely a book I will go back and reread. Again. And Again.


Full Review:

From the first page, this book scared me! Every time this book had a small second-person interlude, I felt VERY UNSETTLED! Which, is a good thing for a horror novel. Normally in the second person, the person is you. However, this time it was you as an entity; as an idea. Your actions are not only being described, it feels as if you are being controlled.

Of course this all relates into the main storyline in ways I wont go into as not to spoil anything. To get the full impact of this book, you really need to read it yourself.

This book is horror in a deeply psychological way. So much so that the unsettling feeling produced feels more real than fictional. It centres on losing your sense of self. The control we allow other things to have by giving them attention. The second person mentioned before makes this not only apparent through Athan and the mirrors, but with the reader and the book as well.

I do not want to spoil anything more than I feel like I already have, yet that ending! WOW! That was probably the most profound thing I will have read all year. Made me gasp, cry, question life! It changes your whole worldview if only for the minute you need to sit there and process what you read. I will never look in a mirror the same again.

Truly, no one does horror like queer people. And this book is one of the most harrowing I have read.