sleepyboi2988 's review for:

Sleepwalking: Nightmareland Volume Three by Daniel Barnett

5.0

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If you just saw that image and went “Oh shit, it's gonna be one of those reviews again…” you guessed right! (Only you and a medical professional can guarantee if this review format is right for you. Please consult with your doctor before reading if you weren't IMMEDIATELY on board).

Buckle up buckaroos. Full RTC

IT'S HERE BITCHES

This series immediately grabbed my attention after reading the first release (Short story? But not meant derogatorily). Coming off the second and the discovery of a young man to join their intrepid crew, I worried there would be a mid-series slump with the introduction of a teen. Heh. Hehh. Hehehhh. Hehehehehehehehe. Shame. Shame on me for even contemplating Daniel Barnett easing off the gas.

You. You sir…ahahaahahahaha. Are a fucking genius. Zero sarcasm, all the proverbial and metaphorical consensual dick suck.

Yes, you sir, Daniel Barnett, get TWO gifs. Just *Chefs Kiss*

At this point, when you maybe actually thought Barnett had teased more of what would become a creeping dread of horror at the beginning, and now you might want to settle in for the “slog” to get there? Oh! No. Oh! No, no, no, no dear reader did he not. He cranks a concept, already humming along nicely at 10,000 RPM, and completely blows past 11K well into the high 14 thousand.

His characters are so incredibly believable. Their actions are those of actual people in a LITERAL apocalypse. They're not always rational, they're not always dumb, they have strengths and weaknesses and succumb and rise. Just. Like. US.

Won't lie, with the introduction of a teen and the upping of the horror into an amazing climax (All the innuendo), I was worried he may cross some of my own personal boundaries.

I was a bit worried I may have to deuce out of the series if it went some places that I wasn't comfy with.

Barnett, much to my astonishment and amazement, did in fact up the horror to 14 without crossing a single one off my own small list of “Can't handle". If anything, this just furthers my amazement with what this author is able to do with so few words and pages. Again, any reference I make to the brevity of the books thus far is in fact an astounding compliment, not a negative. Daniel does in 140-250 pages what some horror authors can't do in 600-800.

I can't recommend this series enough, in fact, I am writing this review many days after I finished all the published works. That's how caught up in it, I was. I wanted it all, and I wanted it now (“And I don't care how,” I see you Metallica fans). This series takes horror, turns it mental and asks if it can make sweet love to you by the fire. If you give consent? Hoodoo that you do lovelies, the mental joys that await you within these pages.

No caption written, author of review still having aftershocks.


Sit down, strap in, apply the protective makeup and prepare to get made love to by horror.