I’m still trying to articulate my thoughts on this, but one thing I know for sure is that this is as psychological as you can get. Truly. The actual horrific aspect of this book focuses on how clicking through a lot of hateful, bigoted, and violent content can genuinely distort your mind and reshape your world view. Reading about these characters slowly becoming indoctrinated into certain extremist groups, fully believing in harmful conspiracy theories, finding community in the most darkest corners of the internet, etc. when this was supposed to be a job and only a job in some of their eyes, was fascinating and downright terrifying. This story reiterates how easy it is for people to start believing in things (and maybe didn’t before) they continue to see over and over again on the internet, whether they actively insert themself into or stumble upon that space.

I did want to note that I’m still torn on both Kayleigh and Sigrid… I understood the meaning  behind their relationship but I feel like there was just something missing. Like their relationship was supposed to matter way more to the reader than it did, and it just didn’t? Lol. 

Final Thoughts: While I did enjoy this book for making me think more critically of how being a content moderator affects the person in that role day in and day out, I don’t think this book was necessarily groundbreaking. It really is a straight shot of a plot IMO. People work a f*cked up job, only to be f*cked up by it as time progresses. I think if you keep in mind of how psychological horror/thrillers are intended to scare you then you might enjoy this, but if you’re looking for this to really play up the physical, gory horror, then this isn’t that.