Sunday, February 22, 2026

The Obake Code by Makana Yamamoto

Published Feb. 17, 2026 from Harper Voyager

1: Repeated word choice. 

2: Repeated word choice.

3: I like this description.


1: I approve of the narrator’s judginess.

2: Weird to use “spindling” instead of “spindly,” especially since there’s two other -ing words in the phrase.


Not very thrilled by this worldbuilding. It drops a bunch of names in quick succession and doesn’t give any context for them.


1: I found this a little hard to follow.

2: I like this description of mentally hacking into biometrics data.


Verdict: Slightly rough, but has some fun concepts and narration.

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