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nostoat

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You Should Have Been Nicer to My Mom
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  • Hench (Hench, #1)
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    Re-reading this before Villain releases on the 19th 🙂‍↕️

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  • You Should Have Been Nicer to My Mom
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    nostoat commented on nostoat's review of The Luminous Dead

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  • The Luminous Dead
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    May 16, 2026
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    This is definitely Starling's debut work, but I don't say that in a disparaging way. You can see her getting her legs under her, as it were. The horror is THERE, it's palpable and very real. I was reading most of this at noon on a fully lit day and I felt terrified something was going to come up behind me and look at me at several points. No thank you!! But also, the Caitlin Starling promise ✅. The intense, claustrophobic atmosphere of the book starts from sentence one and never lets up, closing in on you more and more with every page. The cave and the horror wind around you and Gyre both, dragging you deeper and deeper with every page and step. The claustrophobia is heightened and mirrored by the sole relationship in the book: Gyre's handler, Em. This tense, toxic, fraught relationship is both her only lifeline to the surface for her entire time in the depths and perhaps the source of all her problems. And perhaps... something else? Some other tension?

    I loved reading this, I also hated reading it (I haaaate cave horror, but I did do this to myself), and I especially liked seeing the pieces of this book that later made their way into The Starving Saints.

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