Sleepless
A blisteringly powerful thriller set in a Los Angeles ravaged by a plague of sleeplessness.
A blisteringly powerful thriller set in a Los Angeles ravaged by a plague of sleeplessness.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781409114994 (1409114996)
Publish date: April 1st 2010
Publisher: Orion
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction,
Mystery,
Thriller,
Crime,
Noir,
Horror,
Dystopia,
Apocalyptic,
Post Apocalyptic,
Suspense
First let me tell you why I picked up this audio. Yeah, I gave it a chance because I had just finished Charlie Huston's Already Dead. And like I said there, detective noir isn't my bag. But the premise of sleeplessness as some sort of disease you can catch? Oh yeah, that was a frightening idea. Cons...
Charlie Huston has proven himself master of series genre, with both his Joe Pitt and Hank Thompson books; the former is noirish and moody, darkly humorous urban fantasy, the latter grittily realistic, with a hero who does what he's got to do to get by. He's proven himself master of the stand-alone l...
Charlie Huston has flexed his Crime Noir muscles and punches them into this gritty dystopic tale of a world with an epidemic of sleeplessness. Before you assume that sounds a bit lame, be aware that there is a real disease called Fatal familial insomnia (FFI) that is always fatal and very painful. F...
Audiobook version. The premise was interesting, but I couldn't get past the first 45 minutes. The gaming references were incomprehensible to me and I just couldn't connect.