This one is not for everyone, but boy was it made for me! It moves really slow and reads more like literary fiction than horror, but I enjoyed it so much. The main character's voice was wonderful and relatable, but also privileged and ignorant at times. Sometimes I disliked her and wished she took on more agency and responsibility, but I was always intrigued by her story. There's a slight feeling of creepiness over the whole thing, but it's also surprisingly funny in places? There's also a darkly and obsessive female friendship, which I always love reading about. And it tackles a lot of interesting issues about translation and language and colonization and privilege and misogyny and trauma and exploitation - though I kind of wish the author would have gone deeper into some of the commentary.