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I'm Thinking of Ending Things

Iain Reid

published: 2016, read: 3/1/25
256 pages, genre: Horror
rating: 7.25/10, normalized: 6.944/10
-0.003σ worse than average
0.23σ or 0.186/10 better than average in Horror genre

A fever dream of discussions between lovers in an asymmetric relationship on their drive to his parents’ house. I appreciate the insightfully articulated nuances of attraction and indifference towards the relationship from the narrator’s POV. Interspersed throughout the odd (to say the least) evening are anonymous dialogues about a crime scene clearly involving a male character in the rest of the story. It’s a bit too incoherent towards the end, and I think the Shutter Island-esque twist could’ve been executed better. But I enjoyed it

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