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The set-up to this thing is pretty weak. In a proto-slasher such as this, it's fine, perhaps even preferable, for the characters to have trivial concerns , but Ketchum spends way too long establishing their run-of-the-mill relationships, most of which ultimately do not matter to the story. However, once things get going, the action and gore are very well written, and the bleakness of the story's conclusion (apparently bowdlerized beyond recognition in the original edition) is note-perfect.

A very enjoyable throwaway read.

Excellent read. The epilogue is a hell of a downer after the giddy excitement that precedes it, but imo Miéville gets his summary about right. It's important to interrogate the October Revolution: to ask how much of the horror that followed was inevitable, how things could have been different.

The climactic chapter to this book is absolutely intoxicating. I could not put it down, and by the time it ended I was high as a kite.

Now I'm steeling myself for the inevitably depressing epilogue.

I distinctly remember all the theory-folk I followed on Twitter describing this as a 'novelisation'. Now I'm a good way in and I'm beginning to wonder if those people had ever read a novel before?

Maybe things will change when the narrative reaches the titular month, but for now it is more reminiscent of a Mike Duncan podcast. Not a criticism ofc, just very strange to me that anyone could read this as anything other than a (accessible, well-written) history book 🤷

Loving this so far.

This might seem like a silly complaint to make about a ≈200 page book, but the set up takes way too long imho, especially considering that it's all rather insubstantial relationship stuff. Things get pretty exciting once the action starts though!

Complete trash. I enjoyed it immensely.

Great read. Enríquez continues to be perhaps the best short horror writer in the business. Nothing in the collection can quite compete with La Casa de Adela, but what can.

Especially excited to be able to read it before the English translation comes out, using my incredible linguistic abilities* 🤓

• ability to just about get through a book in Spanish