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3.97 AVERAGE
3.97 AVERAGE
I will say that a lot of what Mike discusses were part of my experience. With the internet and increase in selfishness, my time at Sleep No More was filled with jostling, checklist seekers who were desperate for their own individual experience at the expense of others.
A lot of the horror in this book is the horror of others and loss of community, of the uneducated vs “coastal elites”. And those are very real issues. The last lines of this novel have haunted me since finishing.
Graphic: Gore, Sexual violence, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Homophobia
I found this book propulsive, was completely absorbed by it. Found myself both desperately wanting to experience something like Sleep No More (or in this case, Come Knocking) and also just….depressed. Because the point of the book is actually nothing about theater. It’s about how scared and selfish Americans have become, how the warning shots have already been fired, how the feeling of awfulness everyone has had since the first Trump administration began is oh-so-justified, and how we’d best prepare ourselves for what is to come.
This book’s setting made it an unusually fun horror novel for me, but the message left me with a pit in my stomach.
Nonetheless, I don’t think the book would have been written if the author thought all hope was lost. Instead, I think it is a warning: Let’s take a look at ourselves, look at the roles we play in the wider world, and turn this thing around while we still can.
Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Body shaming, Chronic illness, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Infertility, Rape, Trafficking
Graphic: Bullying, Homophobia, Violence, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment
Moderate: Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual violence
Minor: Fatphobia, Toxic relationship