Review: Night time terror
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 1, 2013
Jessie experiences night terrors in the shape of the 'Nightmare Man'. When the nightmares start to escalate, threatening his families safety, he decides to enlist in a new sleep study and drug trial. Things do not go as planned as his nightmares are desperately trying to merge with his reality.I have to admit that when I started to read this story I didn't think it was going to engage me that much. Once I hit around 30% I found that the story really drew me in. Jessie is someone that I had a love/hate relationship with, I found many of his traits to be unlikeable but I think that made him all the more real and for a novella his character was really well drawn. The supporting characters in the book were also fleshed out really well, I especially liked the character of Leslie.The story itself was not horror for me but unsettling in the themes that were explored; disappointment, resentment, temptation as well as the elements of the 'Nightmare Man' himself. There were some great concepts that could have been padded out a bit more but for 77 pages the author has done a great job in delivering an interesting read. While the book may not have wowed me, I have a feeling that elements of it are going to sit in some dark recess of my brain for quite some time to come. Recommended.This book was one of the Darkfuse books of the month.