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Awakened
Awakened | Laura Elliott
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From debut author Laura Elliot comes a tense horror novel emboldened by the surreal, perfect for fans of 28 Days Later and The Girl With All the Gifts. Science has stolen sleep and awakened a world of horror. "I've been an insomniac all of my life, but I'm not Sleepless and I won't become Sleepless, just as long as the chips that were put into their heads never get put into mine. There's little chance of that, since I won't put the machinery into my brain and neither will Edgar and neither will the Professor, and we're the only three left who could. I don't want to be Sleepless..."Civilisation has ended. In a bid to make us more productive, to give us more time, science took sleep from humanity. But sleeplessness turned people into feral monsters and now a small group of scientists are trapped in the Tower of London, consumed by guilt at what they have done and desperately searching for a cure. And then one day, as the last ravens circle, two miraculous survivors walk into the Tower. Are they the answer or a terrible question?
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3.5/5

The world is over, and all that's left of humanity are the scientists that created the apocalypse and their handful of companions, trapped in the Tower of London, surrounded by the Sleepless, the feral humans with chips implanted in their brains. When two survivors arrive, Thea and the others are forced to consider if a cure is truly possible, and if it is, what that would mean for humanity.

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sebrittainclark I thought this book had a lot of interesting things to say about disability, technology that claims to fix our lives, and what is truly monstrous. I generally enjoyed the narrator, who was unreliable and very detached from her emotions. I thought it was more of a dystopian book than horror; although, there were plenty of parts of the book that were horrifying. 2d
sebrittainclark I found the ending of the book very confusing, and I was overall left with a lot of questions about what was actually happening in that compound. I enjoyed it, and I think I'll continue to think about a lot of the book, but I don't think I fully understood it with just one reading.

I was torn between calling this a pick or a so-so.
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