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Nightmare City
Author: Andrew Klavan
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Synopsis: Tom Harding
only wants the truth. But the truth is becoming more dangerous with every
passing minute.
As a reporter for his high school newspaper, Tom Harding was tracking the best story of his life when, suddenly, his life turned very, very weird. He woke up one morning to find his house empty . . . his street empty . . . his whole town empty . . . empty except for an eerie, creeping fog and whatever creatures were slowly moving toward him through the fog.
Now Tom s once-ordinary world has become something out of a horror movie. How did it happen? Is it real? Is he dreaming? Has there been a zombie apocalypse? Has he died and gone to hell?
Tom is a good reporter he knows how to look for answers but no one has ever covered a story like this before. With the fog closing in and the hungry creatures of the fog surrounding him, he has only a few hours to find out how he lost the world he knew. In this bizarre universe nothing is what it seems and everything including Tom s life hangs in the balance.
As a reporter for his high school newspaper, Tom Harding was tracking the best story of his life when, suddenly, his life turned very, very weird. He woke up one morning to find his house empty . . . his street empty . . . his whole town empty . . . empty except for an eerie, creeping fog and whatever creatures were slowly moving toward him through the fog.
Now Tom s once-ordinary world has become something out of a horror movie. How did it happen? Is it real? Is he dreaming? Has there been a zombie apocalypse? Has he died and gone to hell?
Tom is a good reporter he knows how to look for answers but no one has ever covered a story like this before. With the fog closing in and the hungry creatures of the fog surrounding him, he has only a few hours to find out how he lost the world he knew. In this bizarre universe nothing is what it seems and everything including Tom s life hangs in the balance.
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opinion.
Review: As a suspense lover and horror enthusiast, I was
quickly swallowed up by the intensity of Nightmare City!
Tom is a senior in high school and happens to also be the most
hated one thanks to a big story he broke about the schools team pulling a Lance
Armstrong and using enhanced drugs to bulk up their game. But on a day that’s
meant to be like any other—wake up, punch alarm, get ready for school, endure
the torture—Tom instead awakens to an empty house and his mother gone. Odder
still is that the entire neighborhood seems to have disappeared and a dense fog
has taken over. Worse yet is what is contained inside that fog. Horrifying
creatures that want nothing more than to get to Tom and munch their teeth into
him zombie style. Tom isn’t going down without a fight first. He sets out
determined to find out the truth about what happened to his mom, to his town,
and how to send these ugly creatures back to the hell they crawled out of.
Right from the beginning, Nightmare City hooks
the reader with its bizarre and nightmarish atmosphere. The ordinary day is
swept away and in its place is a boy who ends up facing ghosts, demon-like
creatures, and his own inner demons to discover the truth—no matter how much
that truth can hurt, literally. Tom was a great lead. The story progresses at
his pace as he discovers one layer of truth at a time, as his mind desperately
works to understand what in the hecks is going on around him. He is scared but
determined, weak-willed at times and strong-willed in others. Tom is a
character you can connect with and relate to and root for.
The Lying Man, the villain, is true to his name. His promises
sound so much like truth, so much like the best path to walk and the best
invitation to peace, but that’s what he’s good at: seducing you with lies you
want to hear even though you know their lies. Tom’s battle is dark and scary
and hard. You can feel his desperation and fear, you can feel his loneliness
and frustration. It’s what makes the reader root for Tom because he’s realistic
and what he faces we have all faced on one level or another. It’s why readers
will want Tom to win in the end because we need to know that no matter our
choices there’s always a way to redemption.
The big revelation doesn’t come off until around half-way
through the story but it’s definitely a doozy! There were several directions I
thought the story could go and I enjoyed the one it did go in. I loved the way
Klavan used the power of imagination and how our dreams reflect our everyday
lives just in a broader scope.
The book covers a lot of Christian themes without ever coming
off preachy or superior. I’m excited I finally found a Christian fiction writer
who wrote a book I actually enjoyed reading and look forward to catching up on
Andrew Klavan’s other books.
Any lover of the horror, suspense, paranormal and supernatural
genres will find a great deal of creepy fun with Nightmare City!
Definitely a book I would recommend staying up late into the night to read!
About the Author
Andrew Klavan is a best-selling, award-winning thriller novelist
whose books have been made into major motion pictures. He broke into the YA
scene with the bestselling Homelanders series, starting with The Last Thing I
Remember. He is also a screenwriter and scripted the innovative movie-in-an-app
Haunting Melissa.
Where to Stalk
Andrew!
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