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When Janelle Carter survives a heart transplant in the fractured city of New Oakland, everyone calls it a miracle. They’re wrong. After her death, something ancient follows her back. Mirrors whisper. Threads appear where nothing should exist. Strangers speak words they were never supposed to know. And beneath the city, a hidden force known only as the Web begins tightening around her life—binding memory to blood, spirit to machine. As biotech giant Nexus Biogenesis races to turn death itself into technology, Janelle discovers her survival may have been engineered by powers far older than science. Her grandmother, Yaya, calls it inheritance. The spirits call it debt. And something inside the shadows is already whispering her name. Because Janelle was never meant to survive. She was meant to awaken. Blending Afro-diasporic mythology, cosmic horror, ancestral memory, and speculative science fiction, Tangled in the Spirit’s Web:—Rituals in the Machine is an unforgettable adult fantasy about identity, inheritance, grief, and the terrifying cost of being chosen.
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TANGLED IN THE SPIRIT’S WEB: Rituals in the Machine: content & age rating
Intended for adult readers (18+).
This adult sci-fi/horror blend contains disturbing cosmic horror elements, body horror related to medical procedures and supernatural possession, and explores traumatic themes of death, grief, and identity through a dark Afrofuturist lens.
What to know going in
This book has moderate violence, no sexual content, and moderate language. Content notes include death, grief, and body horror (see the full list above).
Who'll love this
Adult readers who love cosmic horror blended with Afrofuturism will be gripped by Janelle's terrifying journey to understand what followed her back from death.