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Wake Up and Open Your Eyes
Wake Up and Open Your Eyes | Clay McLeod Chapman
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"Clay McLeod Chapman is one of my favorite horror storytellers working today."--Jordan Peele "Surreal, hypnotic, unrelenting, profoundly claustrophobic, and an absolutely scathing sendup of the pitfalls of American divisiveness."--Keith Rosson, author of Fever House From Vulture's "master of horror" Clay McLeod Chapman, a relentless social horror novel about a family on the run from a demonic possession epidemic that spreads through media. Noah Fairchild has been losing his formerly polite Southern parents to far-right cable news for years, so when his mother leaves him a voicemail warning him that the "Great Reawakening" is here, he assumes it's related to one of the many conspiracy theories she believes in. But when his own phone calls go unanswered, Noah makes the long drive from his home in Brooklyn to Richmond, Virginia. There, he discovers his childhood home in shambles, a fridge full of spoiled food, and his parents locked in a terrifying trancelike state in front of the TV. Panicked, Noah attempts to snap them out of it and get them medical help. Then Noah's mother brutally attacks him. But Noah isn't the only person to be attacked by a loved one. Families across the country are tearing each other apart--literally--as people succumb to a form of possession that gets worse the more time they spend glued to cable news or falling down internet rabbit holes. In Noah's Richmond-based family, only he and his young nephew Marcus are unaffected. Together, they must race back to the safe haven of Brooklyn--but can they make it before they fall prey to the violent hordes? This ambitious, searing novel from one of horror's modern masters holds a mirror to our divided nation, and will shake readers to the core.
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candc320
candc320
Wake Up and Open Your Eyes | Clay McLeod Chapman
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I tried…I REALLY tried with this one but I just couldn‘t get through it. It started out great and then became a slow slog through the indoctrination/brainwashing of a family and I just couldn‘t make it through to the other side. I might try this again as audiobook but, as a physical book, it just isn‘t keeping my attention. And I‘m trying to get better at DNF‘ing books that I‘m not really enjoying.

Chelsea.Poole I agree with your review. It was super engaging at the beginning for me and it lost that, I finished listening to the audio (but wouldn‘t have bothered reading it). I ended up giving it a pick for the ideas but not necessarily the execution. 6d
candc320 Thanks @Chelsea.Poole !! Yeah, I‘m thinking I might like it better as an audiobook…I am intrigued on where it goes! 6d
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KathyWheeler
KathyWheeler
Wake Up and Open Your Eyes | Clay McLeod Chapman
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Tammany Hall in WUaOYE = Fox News like talk show. Tammany Hall in history = associated with the extremely corrupt New York Democratic political machine of Boss Tweed. I like the reference. Chapman has taken a pretty long time to get to the action. I‘m 4 hours in with 6 hours left, and the people who are supposed to meet have yet to do so. #audiowalk

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KathyWheeler
KathyWheeler
Wake Up and Open Your Eyes | Clay McLeod Chapman
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I went back to this because it‘s a library book and is due in a few days. I got past the really gross scene that made me stop before; it went on for far too long. Otherwise, I‘m liking the book. Temps were down in the 50s today. #audiowalk

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Chelsea.Poole
Chelsea.Poole
Wake Up and Open Your Eyes | Clay McLeod Chapman
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Pickpick

Fox News/mommy-influencer/screen zombie horror! I‘m not a horror reader, but this was so relevant to our times, I was compelled to read an outrageous take on the dangers of the “boob-tube” and the addiction we have with screens.
Noah and his nephew seem to be the only two not inflicted with a mysterious disease which has infected their entire family. Now they must retreat to the safety of liberal nyc where Facts News can‘t harm them. Right?

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SmartBookWorms
SmartBookWorms
Wake Up and Open Your Eyes | Clay McLeod Chapman
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Pickpick

'Wake Up and Open Your Eyes' is a disturbing and thought-provoking novel that will leave you questioning the nature of truth and the dangers of our increasingly connected world.

The book cover alone deserves five stars...

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JustAnotherFinalGirl
JustAnotherFinalGirl
Wake Up and Open Your Eyes | Clay McLeod Chapman

“Her voicemails are digital mosquitoes buzzing about his ear at all hours of the day— and night—hungry for blood.”
-regarding his mother‘s persistent phone calls warning him of potential dangers if he doesn‘t leave the city

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JustAnotherFinalGirl
JustAnotherFinalGirl
Wake Up and Open Your Eyes | Clay McLeod Chapman

“It was enjoyable in a holy-shit-is-this-horror-show-for-real kinda way.You just had to see it to believe it. See it to believe.”
#horror
#IgnoranceIsBliss

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