I am mostly loving this but I agree with others, the second half is a hard read. There’s some really weird writing cobbled together that could have done with a bit more editing, I don’t mind the plot as such but there’s definitely something amiss. I do love the imagination behind it overall though, and the worldbuilding.
He has another dark fantasy style book he wrote with his son called sleeping beauties, I remember enjoying that.
Omg the survivor story still occasionally comes back to tingle my spine out of nowhere. That and the one about the bloke who dies but somehow is conscious for the autopsy (I think he died playing golf? I forgot the name of it).