satanicguava reviewed The One That Comes Before by Livia Llewellyn
gross gory lovely and very esoteric
3 stars
3.5/5 stars because the prose was lovely and poetic but i didnt have a single idea what was going on the whole time, like factually plot-wise.
i kept wondering if i missed something and this was a sequel to another work or set in a pre-existing universe. MC was kind of hard to understand. but i LOVED the world, grimdark urban fantasy where a cabal of thamaturges seeks to use the city to bring an ancient dark god back to life. urban fantasy is usually so spunky, this was a nice change.