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Fractal and fractured

June 24, 2018 by octothorp Leave a Comment

The work this book most reminded me of wasn’t actually a book; despite having no similarities in characters or plot, the FEELING it left me with was exactly like the movie It Follows.  I was done reading this and had the same queasy wrongness that I did after watching the dissonant film about a sexually transmitted haunting. Sweet Lamb of Heaven follows a woman who begins having auditory hallucinations at the birth of her daughter and the group of fellow sufferers in the hotel where […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: it follows, Lydia Millet

octothorp's CBR10 Review No:38 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: it follows, Lydia Millet ·
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