I’m not in the habit of writing reviews, so this may be a little clunky BUT I want to at least try and put this on the radar of more readers as there aren’t many reviews on PB and all 3 posts in the forum are mine.

A work of indigenous Spec Fic, this book is a mix of Cherokee histories, the science of The Three Body Problem, and the cosmic horror of Annihilation, all wrapped in an atmosphere similar to The Mist.

CW for suicide ideation and offscreen child death

I went into this book expecting something much less intense, but that didn’t decrease my overall enjoyment. There are some grisly descriptions, so if that’s not your thing, this book may not be for you. That said, I love a good cosmic horror, and this did not disappoint. There’s a poetic prophecy machine, body horror, AI psychosis, and indigenous spirituality, all wrapped in a fairly short work. It questions how we define what is real and what is the present, and the power of thought itself.

I listened to the audiobook, but I’d be so curious what the eyeball reading experience is like, as the book mentions quantum mechanics, and cause and effect being independent of time and I would have liked to be able to back and forth in the story itself.