Rose/House by Arkady Martine
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lightreadsRose/House
2/5. Futuristic gothic novella about an AI house that only unlocks for one person once a year, except now it has a dead body in it and it is required to call the police about it.
A weird dream state of a little book that was doing its thing well – an AI as a haunting, a gothic-typical fixation with architecture and the things it does to human minds, etc. But I am not into that thing really at all. Too nebulous, too inconclusive, way too full of me interrogating the text from the wrong direction because for fuck’s sake, these two police officers did so much unprofessional and flat out nonsensical things that it completely broke the book for me. Yeah yeah, not the point, whatever.
Content notes: Death, body desecration, creeping horror
2/5. Futuristic gothic novella about an AI house that only unlocks for one person once a year, except now it has a dead body in it and it is required to call the police about it.
A weird dream state of a little book that was doing its thing well – an AI as a haunting, a gothic-typical fixation with architecture and the things it does to human minds, etc. But I am not into that thing really at all. Too nebulous, too inconclusive, way too full of me interrogating the text from the wrong direction because for fuck’s sake, these two police officers did so much unprofessional and flat out nonsensical things that it completely broke the book for me. Yeah yeah, not the point, whatever.
Content notes: Death, body desecration, creeping horror