This Thing Between Us January 25, 2026 Grief Without a Payoff This Thing Between Us is a book that left me thoughtful, but not entirely satisfied. It wasn’t quite what I expected, and that gap between expectation and execution shaped my experience more than anything else. At its strongest, the novel offers sharp observations about grief. Moreno presents it not as a process with a clear endpoint, but as something invasive and consuming. Grief here lingers, isolates, and quietly reshapes […]