2 of 5 stars

This started out feeling like an MFA thesis, but the flow of the writing was good and I wanted to see what developed. By the time I hit the third section, I felt that a great premise went from an intriguing satire/parody to a middling horror story. It also felt like a literary genre author testing the waters of the horror genre, with the writing being too clever by half. The ending felt unreal and the knots tied up too nicely. I still have to say that I did want to read to the end, i.e. I never wanted to just abandon reading.