Well, I read this but didn’t write it up for over a week and when I tried to write it up, I couldn’t remember the name or who it was by. Thankfully, searching for ‘novel with the funhole and the guy with the hole in his hand’ brought up the right results.
I don’t know. I guess it’s just not for me. I enjoy horror novels now and then, but am realising that I really have difficulty with wilfully self-destructive characters. This has them in spades.
In a nutshell, two underemployed people in their twenties discover a weird floating hole in space, located in the apartment below the protagonist’s. What becomes a shared secret soon spirals into a small cult and… people act against their own best interests, over and over again.
No quotes from this one because it just left me depressed. It reminded me of the bits I didn’t like in ‘House of Leaves’ - sad sack single man in love with a tattoo artist, etc.