What do you think – are you the best version of yourself? The best you can afford…?Maks Okrągły “Square” is the best math student in the department and a morbid perfectionist. His mind, imbued with the queen of science, has switched to extreme efficiency – the boy learns faster, does more and achieves better results than his peers. However, this situation has its dark side – Maks subconsciously despises other people and treats them in advance. Paradoxically, however, he most despises… himself – especially when he makes a mistake that, in his opinion, is unbecoming of him, and he feels powerful anger about it. Sometimes it takes extreme forms – Maks inflicts increasingly severe punishment on himself through self-mutilation and is tormented by paranoid thoughts interspersed with terrifying visions – including that he is being stalked by his doppelgänger who hates him and wants to kill him. However, he does not know that the real nightmare is just coming and he will find out for himself the literalness of the saying “Better is the enemy of good”. Has Max’s doppelgänger, the epitome of his obsession with perfection, really ceased to be just a hallucination of a tormented mind?

At the time of writing of this review this book is only available in polish. 

I gotta say that this book started really hot, and it really didn’t fail to grab your attention and your interested. But the last 100 pages of this book really killed off some of the hype which the book was building up to from the first page.

This book is categories in the horror genre, but to be fully honest it rather a mystery book than a horror book. There is one scene in this book which feels like a horror but the rest of this book is rather a mystery investigation.

The characters in this book are very good and it really felt like I would have no problem becoming friends with the characters. The characters here are few of them but they really felt like real human beings in a way because you spend almost 600 pages of getting to know them.

The ending is okay, I expected it to be different but it was super satisfying and the evil might win at the end of this book. Which really made me like the ending.

This book is very good at living in your head when you take break from it. And it really keeps you wondering what will happen next.

Descriptions in this book are very good, and they give you an very good picture in your head. Which I personally love when this happen. 

I Give This Book 4 / 5