Marina & Sergey Dyachenko 2018
- What it is
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Within the walls of a school · it messes with your head
- Genre
- Fantasy Science fiction Horror
- Feels
- Surreal Cerebral Unsettling Mysterious Tense
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. We tell you why as you go.
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School setting and cerebral
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Like yours: school setting · full of big ideas
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You'll keep turning it over for days, but in literary fiction
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Only a threat that keeps growing
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It won't tell you everything at once · it'll scare you
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The truth comes out bit by bit · it'll scare you
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The truth comes out bit by bit · properly scary
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The truth comes out bit by bit · properly scary
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It's hiding a secret · properly scary
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Unsettling from the first page · one family, generation after generation
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You read it holding your breath · horror in the countryside, with old rites
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Unsettling from the first page · it stays with you
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Unsettling from the first page · horror in the countryside, with old rites
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You read it holding your breath · it leaves you thinking
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The truth comes out bit by bit · love in the middle of danger
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It gets under your skin · it changes how you see things
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Unsettling from the first page · horror in the countryside, with old rites
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A threat that keeps growing · nobody is entirely good
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It won't tell you everything at once · it'll scare you
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It won't tell you everything at once · it'll scare you
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Only school setting
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Unsettling from the first page · no clean hands here
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Only cerebral
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You'll keep turning it over for days · properly scary
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