There Is No Antimemetics Division

I'm a huge fan eldritch/cosmic horror and abstract threats, and this book delivered. Think things can't get any stranger or more existentially dangerous as you're reading? WRONG. The stakes keep rising and rising all the way through; never a dull moment!

Ngl this got so convoluted I kinda checked out halfway through. The power creep of the threats is just kinda like.., yeah I mean how do u deal with a world ending congnitohazard that has eaten all of humanity? I found the less threatening scps way more fun to think about. Also it has the classic horror thing of the monster not being scary once you show it. Especially when the threat is a literal CONCEPT, whyyyy are u making me think of a white guy in his 20s?

The book is really well written, the dialogue is good, easily leagues above most SCP writings (which is yknow. Why this is published and most of the stuff is on the archive or Reddit or whatever). The concept of the book is by its very nature impossible to understand, and trying to put it into words is a cool attempt, but it gets kinda tired. Once we switched to Adam’s pov I didn’t really care. Would’ve read an entire book of Nema’s pov tho!!

Anyway these are my only critiques because beyond that it’s pretty cool. I’d say more adventure than horror bc again, once you’ve seen the monster it’s not that scary, so if ur into that kinda thing it’s probably great, just not quite my thing. 3.5 stars rounded up to 4