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The Edge of Sleep
by Willie Block, Jake Emanuel
Title: The Edge of Sleep
Authors: Jake Emanuel, Willie Block, Jason Gurley
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
ISBN: 9781250284938
Pub Date: June 20, 2023
Audiobook Narrator: Franz Drameh
Rating: 5/5 ⭐
When the mood strikes, I surf my library’s online catalog on the Libby app and grab a horror book at random based on its one-sentence logline. That’s what I was doing when I spotted the audiobook for The Edge of Sleep (St. Martin’s Press, 2023). When I selected this book, I hadn’t heard of it or its triumvirate of authors and went in totally cold. I highly recommend you give this method a shot. Book number 85 on the year was no sleeper (see what I did there?)!
Dave and Matteo skip out on their night shift for a party when things start going drastically wrong very quickly. TLDR: people die when they go to sleep. There’s a whole backstory connecting Dave’s night terrors and the cause of the humanity-ending trajectory of the book that I won’t spoil for you (it’s good!), and Dave and Matteo—along with Linda, a boss-lady nurse with cajones of steel—set out to save themselves and anyone they team up with along the way. P.S.: No character is safe.
I’d liken this story to Blindness (1995), only more chill (that book had zero chill) and mixed with the sense of adventure, appearance of elder gods, and humorous tones of Lovecraft Country.
Only once in a while do I come across a book, be it in audio format or on paper, that drags me through from start to finish, compelling me not to put it down. I’m a busy guy. I teach full time while running a small publishing business and managing three dogs, all while doing the dad and husband thing… so to say that a book is unputdownable is usually wordplay. This time, I use the phrase literally. I was hitting this thing hard, en route to school, in the grocery store, making breakfast, on the dog walks… all of it. I loved the characters, believed their struggles, and appreciated the scope and focus of the authors’ story structure in The Edge of Sleep. I highly recommend you pick up a copy—from your library or local independent bookstore—if you have the means.
Authors: Jake Emanuel, Willie Block, Jason Gurley
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
ISBN: 9781250284938
Pub Date: June 20, 2023
Audiobook Narrator: Franz Drameh
Rating: 5/5 ⭐
When the mood strikes, I surf my library’s online catalog on the Libby app and grab a horror book at random based on its one-sentence logline. That’s what I was doing when I spotted the audiobook for The Edge of Sleep (St. Martin’s Press, 2023). When I selected this book, I hadn’t heard of it or its triumvirate of authors and went in totally cold. I highly recommend you give this method a shot. Book number 85 on the year was no sleeper (see what I did there?)!
Dave and Matteo skip out on their night shift for a party when things start going drastically wrong very quickly. TLDR: people die when they go to sleep. There’s a whole backstory connecting Dave’s night terrors and the cause of the humanity-ending trajectory of the book that I won’t spoil for you (it’s good!), and Dave and Matteo—along with Linda, a boss-lady nurse with cajones of steel—set out to save themselves and anyone they team up with along the way. P.S.: No character is safe.
I’d liken this story to Blindness (1995), only more chill (that book had zero chill) and mixed with the sense of adventure, appearance of elder gods, and humorous tones of Lovecraft Country.
Only once in a while do I come across a book, be it in audio format or on paper, that drags me through from start to finish, compelling me not to put it down. I’m a busy guy. I teach full time while running a small publishing business and managing three dogs, all while doing the dad and husband thing… so to say that a book is unputdownable is usually wordplay. This time, I use the phrase literally. I was hitting this thing hard, en route to school, in the grocery store, making breakfast, on the dog walks… all of it. I loved the characters, believed their struggles, and appreciated the scope and focus of the authors’ story structure in The Edge of Sleep. I highly recommend you pick up a copy—from your library or local independent bookstore—if you have the means.