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Excited for this one. Hoping it is just as good or better than Eclipse.

In the pale light of midnight’s foggy street,
I’m haunted by the goodbye in your eyes.

Now I could be seen completely. Being seen made me their king. It gave me my authority, and all the people watching were my subjects.
Eyes, countless as the gravel at a shrine, pressed in all around me. They found their center — my image coalesced. In that moment, dressed as a yakuza, I became a sparkling apparition, like a scepter thrust against the sky.

I just may have found another favorite author.

I wondered if this was what being a real human was: accepting you were pieces of other people too. The people you loved and the people you hurt.

This book has me on tenterhooks now.

The writing is kinda morbid with the cannibalism but too grippy to let go of