Rhiannon

There’s some really good, unique world building here. Very visual, very bleak. But I think that was about the only interesting part of the book for me. It’s an interesting concept, but I was getting weary of the male MC is ‘gonna save’ his GF and why are all the ‘bad’ guys always Guys? The idea of the Black Farm being ‘not hell’ made me wonder what ‘hell’ would actually be like for this world? I was surprised that the majority of suffering in this world is physical with no real emotional or existential torment… (apart from our MC feeling some guilt over his GF being here as well.)

And there’s some gnarly extreme stuff. There’s a scene about a quarter of the way in that actually made me feel somewhat nauseous – which is very uncommon for me. But I think it was a little too repetitious and predictable for me in the end and just meh overall.