![]() ![]() ![]() I’m going to work very hard not to spoil this incredible work of body horror because I think everyone who can stomach it should read it. Those writers who, through their stories, teach us what’s possible for our own craft. I had to know how her dark, twisted story had twisted me right along with those living within its pages. What just happened? How on earth did they do that? Can I do it too? When I first read The Cipher by Kathe Koja, I was awed at how deeply the story affected me. As a reader this experience is exhilarating but as a writer it’s also a challenge. They force you to fly high with a character’s laughter or to grip their hand as anxiety takes you both. These books don’t just tell you how it feels to live the character’s life, they don’t just show you and rely on your empathy, they make you feel it for yourself. Books that spread throughout your systems, sometimes as an energy that lifts and warms and sometimes as a shadow that squeezes and aches, and drinks from your soul. Books that burrow deeper with each passing sentence. Then there are the books that crawl inside of you. Good books let us immerse ourselves in their worlds and great books pull us in.
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