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The Sleeping Sickness

Written by: European P. Douglas
Narrated by: James Daniel Burkdoll
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If you die in a dream, you die in real life - that used to be a myth!

Howell Warren hasn't seen another human face for over five years. If he did, that person could die at any time. This is the world of the "Sleeping Sickness".

As the world recovers from a devastating solar flare, society is just getting back on track when a strange phenomena begins. Violent dreams are coming true all over the world. Those featured in the dreams are killed in real life, showing terrible injuries like those in the dreams. No one is safe because no one can control their dreams.

The more worried people become, the more likely they are to have bad thoughts at night. It's only a matter of time before you kill someone. At least that was how it was until everyone started wearing masks and disguises, and people began to forget the faces of everyone they ever knew.

In this new world, the reemerging internet is filled with rumor and fear. Howell Warren hates living behind a mask. His new love, Catherine - many cities away - feels the same. Their one hope of a 'normal' life is to travel over dangerous, still mostly lawless terrain to make it to the city of Asitwas, a place where everyone lives as before and the only time people wear masks is at Halloween.

Can they manage to meet and cross hostile terrain to make their dreams come true. Or will the lawless world or the Sleeping Sickness get to them first?

If you liked A Quiet Place, The Silence, or Birdbox you'll love this speculative horror from E. P Douglas.

©2021 Rory McNeill (P)2022 Rory McNeill
Dystopian Horror Science Fiction Suspense Scary Dream Fiction City
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A Spooky Season Must Read

This is a great read. The main characters face a journey of ups and downs. As they try to get to a society that lives similar to a life before solar flares. Only for people to cause a variety of problems that could lead to their death at any moment. It was so funny to read on, only for the main characters to have surprising about of good luck. It's like they had a lucky rabbit foot with them. Not to say they suffered and gained trauma from their travels. For a dystopia horror story, it was fantastic to learn how this new world surives. A dystopia horror story of a life where you can't take off their masks. Because if they see your face, you could die from them dreaming of you.

This book had a tone of details explaining and showing the world building and the ways people found ways to survive the possibilities of death. Everything from people trying to kill you, eating you, suicide, lawless society, food suppliers, work, technology, ID, money, entertainment, movies/tvs. Their is so much world building.

The ending made me wanting more of this world. I really didn't want it yet just yet.

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