I still have goosebumps, and my thoughts are all over the place. Kathe Koja doesn’t write about Nicholas and Nakota’s experience with the Funhole, she drags the reader into that terrifying space with them. There’s something raw, dangerous and downright uncomfortable about this story. See, The Cipher is something completely different from most of the horror novels that I have read in the past few years. This is a tough book to review, for a myriad of reasons, but I promise to do my best. Nicholas says, “We’re not.” But no one is in control, and their experiments lead to obsession, violence, and a very final transformation for everyone who gets too close to the Funhole. “Wouldn’t it be wild to go down there?” says Nakota. When a strange hole materializes in a storage room, would-be poet Nicholas and his feral lover Nakota allow their curiosity to lead them into the depths of terror. Pure black and the sense of pulsation, especially when you look at it too closely, the sense of something not living but alive.” Dick Award, and named one of io9.com’s “Top 10 Debut Science Fiction Novels That Took the World By Storm.” With a new afterword by Maryse Meijer, author of Heartbreaker and Rag. Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and Locus Awards, finalist for the Philip K. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | Meerkat Press | B&N
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