Reviews
This book went in so many directions I didn't expect and they were all incredibly delightful (you know, in a horrific, sinister way). The way the author writes intrusive thoughts rings so true. It's such a small thing compared to the much bigger horrors in the novel, but it's a real horror that I'm intimately familiar with, and it's been written with such precision. It really brought me into the story.
this was creepy and gross and i hate bugs so much but a very good horror novel and i WILL be seated and waiting patiently for the author's next works
This one dug into my skin, crawled into my lungs, and then set me on fire. Compulsive, heartwrenching and beautifully creepy. I'm holding Jade Nguyen and all her prickly, haunted, desperately soft pieces close to me forever. PS I wrote an entire essay about this book about the motifs of food and hunger, and how it resonates with Asian family, colonialism and diaspora
was a little slow to start but then i got super into it. jade’s relationship with her queerness and her family made my chest ache. eldest daughter syndrome🤞
Deliciously creepy, fun read.
dnfed at 70% i didnt care enough about the characters, the story, or the romance to keep reading so i eventually gave up.
Highlights
Neither of us has the language or time to figure it out yet, and there's a power in never being known because no one can use you against you.
Standing in this house is as claustrophobic as being in a forest clearing, surrounded by woods that have seen more than you—this spot, most of all. It is bare and clean, and even emptied, I feel like I've trespassed.