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Extremely unpopular opinion, but It was good until it was not. The start was magnificent, a perfect cocktail of mystery, a deliciously unsettling atmosphere that makes you shiver and question your own sanity. The MCs were also so well built, you just KNOW there is something grotesque under those smiles, but you cannot exactly point where that feeling comes from. Then the police guy began to remember, and especially after he remembered the other guy's parents, all the good building went astray. The story started to feel erratic, just like a fever dream. The demonic shadows, the Addams family severed hands that make people go boom, the half assed explanation of what exactly is this inhuman being in the black room. How were they summoned? What is their purpose? For how long had they existed? Why is the mirror the trigger? Are they the personification of the ugly human desires even we to ouselves cannot espress? I guess we will never know. The ending was what did it for me after all the previous chapters nonsense. They made it seem as if they were freed from some kind of suppression of self imposed by society. Let your insane be free baby. But to me it felt more like they were bewitched once and for all by the shadows entities.
I truly WANTED to like this, and I did, until the supernatural out of pocket stuff.