You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

A creepy and thought provoking read! I would definitely read more set in this universe

Ultimately, this horror / dystopia / alt history severely pulls its punches with regards to the ending. It's barely spooky, barely horrific, and so light on the dystopian and alt historical detail that the whole thing feels unsatisfying. The use of post notes to render unreliability and worldbuilding is a pretty interesting one, however.

Well written and intense. I wish it had some of the humor of Cranor's well-known project, Welcome to Night Vale.

Dystopian fiction that displays influences from 1984, Brave New World, maybe even A Handmaid's Tale—definitely Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Because the book deals with the ability to alter memories, there is a lot of ambiguity, especially in the last few chapters.

Is the editor/author of the footnotes and prologue/epilogue Rosemary, master manipulator?

Off-putting (but never overwhelmingly so) alternative history/sci fi/horror thing. Def worth a read, will undoubtedly be checking out Within the Wires at some point.

A book which is either a memoir or a fictional construct is found and published with commentary from state censors/cultural critics. It consists of the experiences of the creator of a complex form of therapy developed in response to deeply rooted childhood traumas on a universal level. These traumas are the result of WWI not ending. The therapy is meant to erase the ties between parent and child, with the goal being to simultaneously wipe out any already existing childhood memories of trauma.

This was a complex and engaging piece of grounded sci-fi. Really dug it.

I'm not normally a fan of alternate histories, but this piqued my interest. It was a bit slow in the first half and the narrator's ego is annoying, but the last half felt like sliding down a hill into a dystopian creepy forest. In a good way if you're a fan of that sort of thing. When the title to the book is finally explained... goosebumps. Loved this one.