This book is a follow-up novella to Nghi Vo's The Chosen and the Beautiful which follows Nick Carraway after the events of the prior book (itself a retelling of The Great Gatsby).

Nghi Vo's writing (as always) is incredible here, and I love the horror-adjacent worldbuilding here of demons and wax women and paper soldiers on top of 1930's New York. This was a fun read, but in retrospect the story as a whole was too thin for me.