Leave the World Behind

Unsettling. A masterwork in creating that sick feeling in the pit of your stomach. I had no perfect connection with any of the characters. I had no significant vested interest in any one of them but I felt their rising anxiety and ultimately their mind-numbing fear so keenly that I did connect with them all the same. I was turning pages quickly, driven by the same maddening impulse that drove each of them to either retreat into themselves or act out; the suffocating unknown. What has happened? What is happening? What will happen? Upsetting. Alam pushes you into a state of dread and then allows you to burrow deeper into an invisible, yet tangible, shroud of untethered horror. Exceptional work.