Meanwhile, Remy attends a group therapy session and downloads an app which simulates loved ones’ text messages based off of their previous texts. By this point, the first two thirds of the book had just completely knocked down all my expectations and robbed me of a significant number of fine motor skills. I’m not that smart of a girl so I’m simply going to say this obviously had some page turnability, but it failed to live up to my own expectations regarding the payoff. On the other hand, if you aren't captivated pretty early on I'm guessing this is not the book for you. Then Alicia dies from a freak accident and Remy starts hearing something moving in his apartment at night.

Horus’s a surf instructor so naturally he gave Remy and Alicia lessons because they don’t know how to surf. Most of my enjoyment that came out of reading this novel was from the sheer surprise that it provided me, and I want you all to go in blind too. And then something happens like halfway through that flips the entire novel on its head, and that's even before the horror and The Weirdness occurs. I felt like I was trapped in a universe created by corporation of David Cronenberg , Terry Gilliam, Alex Garland and Charlie Kaufman. are a Halle-Butler-esque millennial malaise novel, about instagram influencers and toxic relationships and shitty people.Morgan's narrative develops a darkly spiraling pace, simultaneously exposing and blurring the distinction between fantasy and reality. It’s a good concept, and fun, but much lighter than I expected, and ultimately just not a good match for my tastes.

Billed as “Ottessa Moshfegh meets David Cronenberg,” it more than lives up to that description一to get specific, it’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation meets The Fly. While the few glimpses we get of a monstrous, otherworldly presence are tantalising, they’re incidental until the story is almost over – at which point it suddenly explodes into the kind of high-octane horror-thriller stuff I associate with books like The Dark Net and The Changeling. I don't know if it's a good thing or a not-so-good thing to get the year started with such a bizarre book.The one bright spot in Remy and Alicia's faded relationship is their mutual obsession with Jen, a beautiful former coworker-turned-influencer.