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It's at its best when Dex's schemes are clever and specific, and weaker when it just wants you to enjoy watching someone be powerful.
It rewards patience with genuinely striking art and ideas, but it will actively resist readers who want a conventional power-scaling plot.
It delivers real tension and a compelling premise, but the actual moments of retribution rarely get as much space as the crimes that provoke them.
It asks for patience early on and pays that patience back with a beautifully drawn, carefully constructed mystery.
It's more unsettling than outright scary, and that's exactly the register it's aiming for.
It commits fully to making its lead unlikable and asks you to sit with that discomfort rather than resolving it neatly.
The best segments are genuinely sharp, unsettling short stories; the framing device around them is the weakest part.
It says everything it needs to in fourteen chapters and doesn't waste a single one of them.
Whatever interest the premise generates gets undone by an ending that clearly needed more room to breathe and a low point that goes further than the story seems to register.
The gothic visuals and the central bond are strong enough to carry the story through some genuinely rough pacing.
