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Sorry, I do not get the high praise and 5 star for this book & The Chill. I couldn't finish either of them, the writing is fine...but the male protagonists are insufferable and the story just does loop de loops. I also don't get classifying either as "horror" or "suspense"..they are sci-fi with a dab of creepy.

I‘m posting one book a day from my massive collection. No description, no reason for why I want to read it (some I‘ve had so long I don‘t even remember why!). Feel free to join in!

#ABookADay2024

Traveling right now, so I managed to knock out most of this in the last 2 days. Lots of great stuff here. The reveals didn‘t entirely work for me, but the premise is incredibly unique and prose is engaging.

Seems interesting!

This one is definitely a bit of a mixed genre- you have horror, mystery, and ghosts. So it works for either team for #Scarathlon. A struggling journalist goes home to write a puff piece on a new sleep and wellness app called Clarity- one of a million in the market. But after agreeing to be a beta tester, our hero finds himself haunted by the Sleep Songs, by his past, and by what happened to all the other beta testers...
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I like this one, it was creepy, atmospheric but predictable for someone used to these types of stories. Big Stephen King vibes, which I appreciate 😊 but if you think King is too wordy try Scott Carson! More to the point.

A sort of mashup of tech-thriller, horror, ghost story, and sea shanty… but it definitely worked for me. I was a little underwhelmed by the ending, or this would have been a 5 star read for me. Great narration in the audiobook as well.

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I enjoyed this book. It increases dread and ratchets up the tension as the book goes on. Carson is a pen name for Michael Koryta's more supernatural books.

Mixed feelings with this story. At the beginning it started like a thriller and suspense story. Nick, a journalist unemployed, returned to his hometown in Maine, a new job is waiting and he can be with his mother who apparently suffered a stroke. Things are not like he always believed. He will discovered that false memories were implanted in his memory and everything and everyone in town is involved in this. ⬇️

Enjoyed this spooky book enormously: discussions of love, dreams, madness, and death.

“I hope that maybe the worst of this world is imagined, and the best is assured. It is so easy to be fearful when you are alone in the dark. When the sun emerges in the East and the last of the darkness recedes, it is possible to believe that too much weight is granted to fear, and too much allocated to hope. This is, of course, the gift of dreams.” (p.387)

Enjoyable read until the last few chapters ~~ the author rushed to end the story? Not an understandable conclusion after the detail that went in to the plot development….