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vikingwolf's review
1.0
*I received a free copy of this book from the author through Making Connections in exchange for an honest review*
Damien is a comic book store owner with artistic talent, a magic pen provided by aliens and a thirst to murder. He draws his victims until they fall asleep, into a nightmare, while he brutally murders them.
I liked the idea of the murderer drawing people and sending them into their worst nightmare so that his alien friends could study human fear, while he gets to murder them. It was a bit different and I liked the start when Damien is killing people. Damien himself is the most interesting of the characters and had a bit of life about him. These were the things that I liked about the book.
The rest of the characters were obnoxious pieces of human filth that needed some of Damien's TLC. I hated them all and would have liked to kill them myself if I had the magic pen. Especially whiny Brain/Brian moaning about how crap his life is and how much he hates his 'friends'. What a complete loser. I wanted to punch him. However I can put up with bad characters if I have the hope that they might get what is coming to them.
The Goodreads description says 'Reality and dreams collide' and this was certainly accurate. However, I admit that I found the whole novella confusing and a bit incomprehensible at times. It was difficult to seperate dream sequences from reality especially when we were following Brian and his psychologist. You were constantly trying to decide if Miko was real or a figment of imagination and by the end I was none the wiser. What happened to Brian in the town? You were never quite sure as it wasn't really made clear when/if he was dreaming/hallucinating. Was Damien or Brian responsible for what happened? No idea. Even the big ending left me trying to work out if this was really meant to be happening or another of Brian's weird dreams. It was just too confusing and mixed up for me.
Not for me I'm afraid.
Damien is a comic book store owner with artistic talent, a magic pen provided by aliens and a thirst to murder. He draws his victims until they fall asleep, into a nightmare, while he brutally murders them.
I liked the idea of the murderer drawing people and sending them into their worst nightmare so that his alien friends could study human fear, while he gets to murder them. It was a bit different and I liked the start when Damien is killing people. Damien himself is the most interesting of the characters and had a bit of life about him. These were the things that I liked about the book.
The rest of the characters were obnoxious pieces of human filth that needed some of Damien's TLC. I hated them all and would have liked to kill them myself if I had the magic pen. Especially whiny Brain/Brian moaning about how crap his life is and how much he hates his 'friends'. What a complete loser. I wanted to punch him. However I can put up with bad characters if I have the hope that they might get what is coming to them.
The Goodreads description says 'Reality and dreams collide' and this was certainly accurate. However, I admit that I found the whole novella confusing and a bit incomprehensible at times. It was difficult to seperate dream sequences from reality especially when we were following Brian and his psychologist. You were constantly trying to decide if Miko was real or a figment of imagination and by the end I was none the wiser. What happened to Brian in the town? You were never quite sure as it wasn't really made clear when/if he was dreaming/hallucinating. Was Damien or Brian responsible for what happened? No idea. Even the big ending left me trying to work out if this was really meant to be happening or another of Brian's weird dreams. It was just too confusing and mixed up for me.
Not for me I'm afraid.
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