Rhiannon
This scifi horror novel had me hooked right from the start. And I mean, right from the copyright page which left me with a sinking sense of dread by acknowledging “entities” in the ‘any resemblance to…’ blurb.
This is a most unsettling beginning…
The alien enemy in this novel is unseen, incomprehensible, and pretty much impossible to fight. Markus is sent into orbit with his fellow soldiers to combat the terrifying and secret threat but they can’t even begin to comprehend their opponent.
“It’s hard to be scared of the dark once you see the damage light is capable of inflicting.”
And this is where Najberg really begins to undermine your trust in what you’ve come to expect of good vs evil in the world, which we’re (maybe) not even in. The imagery here is beautiful and yet some of the most viscerally terrifying I’ve experienced. At 41% in I made the notation “I've trauma cried twice before the 40% mark and one of those times was on a public bus and now I feel like I'm having an existential crisis and so now it's Existential Extinction Nightmare…” As my poor mind gibbers and unravels I must give thanks for those therapy bills there Andrew!
Najberg’s writing is stellar (no pun intended) as he conveys so much of a single perfect feeling, like the absolute tension in this single phrase:
“…but we’re all on the sharpest parts of our edges…”
Reality itself shifts and completely frays. This novel has me obsessed, and as I lost sleep reading it, and then more sleep once finished, all I can think is how much time do I give myself to recover from this complete mind**ck of an onslaught before I go back and reread it?
“I realize my mind wasn’t built for what’s being done to it.”
Me, too Markus. Me too…
Originally posted at www.amazon.ca.
This scifi horror novel had me hooked right from the start. And I mean, right from the copyright page which left me with a sinking sense of dread by acknowledging “entities” in the ‘any resemblance to…’ blurb.
This is a most unsettling beginning…
The alien enemy in this novel is unseen, incomprehensible, and pretty much impossible to fight. Markus is sent into orbit with his fellow soldiers to combat the terrifying and secret threat but they can’t even begin to comprehend their opponent.
“It’s hard to be scared of the dark once you see the damage light is capable of inflicting.”
And this is where Najberg really begins to undermine your trust in what you’ve come to expect of good vs evil in the world, which we’re (maybe) not even in. The imagery here is beautiful and yet some of the most viscerally terrifying I’ve experienced. At 41% in I made the notation “I've trauma cried twice before the 40% mark and one of those times was on a public bus and now I feel like I'm having an existential crisis and so now it's Existential Extinction Nightmare…” As my poor mind gibbers and unravels I must give thanks for those therapy bills there Andrew!
Najberg’s writing is stellar (no pun intended) as he conveys so much of a single perfect feeling, like the absolute tension in this single phrase:
“…but we’re all on the sharpest parts of our edges…”
Reality itself shifts and completely frays. This novel has me obsessed, and as I lost sleep reading it, and then more sleep once finished, all I can think is how much time do I give myself to recover from this complete mind**ck of an onslaught before I go back and reread it?
“I realize my mind wasn’t built for what’s being done to it.”
Me, too Markus. Me too…
Originally posted at www.amazon.ca.