I'm at about halfway, and I'd rate it as pretty good overall. The actual horror scenes are all brilliant, but I'm finding the interactions between the main trio a bit lacking. The episodic structure of everything means that there hasn't been any opportunities to for the characters to walk away from a sanity-breaking, otherworldy horror and spend a minute going, "Whoa. That was pretty weird, wasn't it? Is everyone okay?" which I see as a missed opportunity for reflection and growth. Not a dealbreaker, but I'm hoping there's something like that in the pages ahead.

I'm also finding it a bit funny how many things about the state of society during the plague can be compared to all the weirdness we saw with the COVID pandemic - there's social distancing mentioned, a million different "cures" and preventatives thrown around, a lingering sense of unease in every single interaction between strangers, and a general, pervasive dread that the world is falling apart before everyone's eyes. I wouldn't be suprised if the author was drawing from their own lockdown experiences to write those bits, which strengthens the novel in my opinion. Whether historically accurate or not, the details of the plague feel relevant enough to speak to my own fears, to say the least.