“What was worse than burying you, living in a world where I couldn't see you, where I was locked in this basement existence?” —Thiago, page 64

oh this was a book to start off the year with. i’m surprised this is a debut. the prose is astoundingly evocative—the the atmosphere was as eerie or beautiful or gory or dreamy as needed. what really hooked me in was how gutteral thiago’s grief was. it flooded each page, each word. there is no inch of this where he (and you) aren’t drowning in it. 

this isn’t exactly tech horror, more cosmic by the end, but i was a fan! i don’t really mind when the form doesn’t really fit into a specific genre, and moreno’s writing was so good that i didn’t care at all. do i fully understand the end? not particularly. does it matter? no! anyway, i do recommend this. captivating read!