Special thanks to Tenebrous Press for the ARC copy they provided.
I am late to the review party this time around, but the thought of just not leaving a review never came to mind. Reviews are crucial and both Tenebrous and Michael Bettendorf have done more than an amazing job on this book.
Trve Cvlt is a pick your own adventure (or in this case, maybe your own doom??) book and it winds from beginning to the anticipated first end right back to the beginning again. And from this beginning, Trve Cvlt takes you into the corridors of the restart that leads to the next end and the next restart, and each of these feels natural. Each leaves you feeling you haven’t “finished a path” and begun another, but that you’ve just completed a plot arch and discovered a new one lurking at the end. Ready to pounce.
And the best part is you want to be pounced. You want to launch yourself down the next, new, twisting hallway to the inevitable end that will not be an end.
Ultimately, the story building astounded me. I still haven’t investigated all the tours of this book I could experience and I’m eager to find the time this book deserves. I don’t want to rush through my read thoughs, I want to linger, to savor.
Trve Cvlt is a treat, and I’m looking forward to my second, third, and fourth helpings as much as I’m anticipating what horrors Tenebrous Press will be rolling out next. And if some of those horrors happen to be from Michael Bettendorf I won’t be complaining, oh no, I will be rubbing my hands together in expectation.
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