Gailey is really leaning into their new, darker style. You know how The Echo Wife sets itself up to offer something that might be a comfortable family close-out, right at the end, and then in the last sentence twists it into something dark and horrible? This book does the opposite: Everything is dark and horrible, until the dark and gruesome ending, which somehow twists itself into something comforting and familial. Brilliantly done. It's a good thing Gailey had already won me over with The Echo Wife and Magic for Liars because this is NOT a book I would pick up if I didn't already know and trust the author, and although I now trust Gailey a little more uneasily than I did before, they're really, really good at what they do. Yikes. Well done.