We Met In The Forums

This one was one of my most anticipated releases of the year, so the expectations were really high, I'm happy to report that it did in fact live up to my expectations.

Our main character is somewhat of a terminally online Redditor (the forums are never said to be Reddit but it's all very Reddit coded) complete with the low level apathy and faux intellectual edginess but he's not entirely devoid of charm (he's not entirely lacking self awareness). His characterization was really consistent which I loved.

I also enjoyed that the city was almost a character of its own.

The body horror aspect was great and didn't rely on torture much to my delight. The balance between character exposition/building and action. There's a certain sense of humor to the whole thing which was added to rather than detracted from the story.

The ending punched me in the gut, violently too.

Disclosure: I received an eARC of this book (I bullied the author into giving me one)! It comes out on April 23 on godless and on the 30 on the Zon.