Hmmm, I feel stuck on how to review Nightshift. On one hand, it's alluring. It pulls you in with its strangeness and unreliability. On the other, it's too provocative. The plot is transgressive. The narrator, Meggie, is frustrating and gullible. But she doesn't deserve the things that happen to her. Sabine is like a siren, magnetic yet strange with her existence. The two of them push and pull at each other so chaotically, the reader has to wonder when it will come crashing down.

I question the author's use of queerness as a thing to be performed or studied. It felt like Meggie had a psychological fascination with her own queer experiences that did not extend far beyond Sabine, and Meggie is clearly creating false ideas of queerness within herself to justify her interest. As a queer person, I became slightly uncomfortable with the character's choice to dive deeper into queerness instead of uncovering the real reason for her obsession, whether that was mental illness or something else. I think the story could've been better had Meggie become more invested in understanding the chaos happening in her mind that's leading her to make so many bad choices.

Overall, 2.5 stars.