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The Luminous Dead is a horror story about two women having to both confront and help each other under terrible circumstances. The novel excels at building tension and maintaining a suffocating atmosphere, immersing the reader in the protagonist’s paranoia while establishing a very troubled relationship between its two main characters.
The protagonist, a young caver called Gyre Price, is tasked to explore a dangerous cave system deep underground in an alien planet, but things eventually go awry, and her only means of escape is through her handler, the inscrutable Em, who is far from a forthcoming individual.
The novel’s first sentence is already an ominous warning that [...]