A darkly beautiful and lyrically written tragedy. I couldn’t have imagined a better ending, and the writing was some of the best I’ve ever read. So many great quotes, but also a great story overall. 

The writing style is pretty unique, but definitely not for everyone. It's a book that I think most people either love or hate, and I happen to fall into the love category. It's very much the kind of book where you don't really know what's going on for a large part of it, but it's also short enough for that to not be too annoying. Heavy use of metaphors, so if that's not your thing, you probably won’t like it. Also, some people might find it pretentious but I like books that occasionally make me feel dumb and force me to look up words. 

I will say though, if you’re looking for complex world building this isn’t the book for you. It’s all kind of vague and wayyyy more character focused. You do have to stick with it at the start, since the story jumps right in and is pretty confusing. 

Take this is a warning, its not light reading, I made the mistake of picking this up in a relatively stressful time of my life, naïvely thinking that since it was short it would be an easy read. I was wrong and that almost made me DNF it. Don’t make my mistake. 

It reminded me of House of Leaves but not quite as intriguing, which I suppose the length makes up for. It doesn't have to hook me as hard to convince me to finish it. In some ways it was similar (uncommon formatting, although not to the extreme degree of House of Leaves, and a very creative writing style) overall it was a very different experience, although one I still really enjoyed.

P. S. There is an element of body horror, and since I haven’t read that before it made me slightly uncomfortable. Not too much though.