3.5 stars — the setting is really strong, which is one of my favourite aspects of a lot of horror, so that was nice. the characters were mid-tier personally but there were a lot that i thought got really solid development. the horror itself had a really slow buildup but there was a lot of bang, which tracks with Jones’ other book i read, and wasn’t really a plus or minus for me. the biggest negative aspect personally was the slightly unreliable narrator — Jade wasn’t the narrator but it was still more or less from her perspective. while i didn’t love that aspect, it culminated REALLY strongly and tied together a lot of things.

this is a heavy one too though, needs a hefty dose of content warnings if it’s something you want to read.