You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

"Style of writing aside, this was a great exploration of an alternate world where the whole paradigm of humanity shifted. Presented by people who are fully accepting of this new world, this is someone’s personal accounting of their part in the forming of this new world and their regrets, riddled with footnotes from the publishers who doubt its validity. It pulls you along, you’ll want to know where it’s going to end up, and there are some great dystopian themes to consider here, I just very much struggled personally with the style of writing."

"A haunting masterpiece of narrative that is made even better by listening to Within The Wires, the podcast of found audio that exists in this same alternate history. "

"Okay I’m really glad I kept reading this book. I almost didn’t continue after the first few minutes of it because I wasn’t sure if it was my vibe. I had a hard time at first, figuring out the point of the book… It felt like the first half of the book was kind of going nowhere, but it all comes together and escalates to the end and it is really intriguing. Seriously very thought-provoking with so many ways to be interpreted. I thought it was so so cool.<br/><br/>I was trying to get away from dystopian novels because I’ve been reading too many lately, but this was very unique kind of dystopian novel as a sort of dystopian memoir for an alternative ending to a past event, if that makes sense. I think it’s really interesting and a very unique take, like I said before. I listened to this book and I would definitely recommend listening to it because the reader does a very good job. It’s intense and the tension builds with the voices for the characters as well, which brings another dimension to this book that I loved. The way other reviews describe reading a book on paper makes me very interested to see how different that experience would be. I have no idea what the pages look like and didn’t know there were footnotes, but I think it could be cool! Read or listen, I’m sure this book is so great either way!<br/><br/>I’ve never read a book like this, and I would love to read more! <br/><br/>Side note: After reading some other reviews, I saw people mentioning the podcast that this story was supposedly inspired by. I had no knowledge of this podcast or the other story before reading this book and I still enjoyed it. I understood it just fine!"

"Haunting and beautifully written. Will be a read that I return to repeatedly. "

"you do feel it just below the ribs because it’ll make you want to barf!"

"This was such a beautiful story. I think it was exactly what the authors tried to create, a work of art"

"Such a heartbreaking book that holds on to you tight. Much like the podcast it leaves you with a sense of inevitability that is both saddening and comforting. Really such a beautiful book with a great twist and honestly quite funny at times."