I had an anxiety attack for 5 minutes after reading something past an hour and a half down what i imagine is a multi-route story idk.

There's too much to it that's disturbingly close, I was reminded of the relationships I've personally left behind and the estrangement and my own mental well being. The poisonous toxic nature of the clear asshole in the group revealing all of the pent up frustrations and completely strung relationships, their inability to really let their feelings known to each other due to the way their lives has moved coming to an emotional head that I imagine, is going to whittle down on all of the barriers I have left that keeps me coolheaded.

This is not a condemning of the novel, but it needs to be understood that the content warning on the itch.io page does not lie. Or at least, it certainly wasn't lying to me. These people all have living fractures and the text is glass, whether or not you have good feet for it doesn't matter.

I do hope to return to it when I'm of better self control. Who knows I may end up reading it again soon in almost perfunctory self-flagellation either from stubbornness or in the hopes that there is a light at the end of that that brings peace to those anxieties for me.