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Some Will Not Sleep
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My second book into the horror genre, and leaning a little more towards what I'm looking for. In my head, this is really the book that starts my horror novel journey. This is a book that another friend let me borrow, they are big into horror, so they gave me a few different types of horror to start my journey.
Some Will Not Sleep
Overall: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Plot(s): ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Writing style: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
I think technically the overall rating should be like 4 1/2 stars, but it gets a full 5 stars because I would absolutely read this again. I am also going to be owning this now, more so because I accidentally spilled coffee on my friend's book (my bad, my dude). And not saying this because I wouldn't own it, I just wasn't planning on owning it so soon.
I really enjoyed Nevill's writing style, it's different... but then again all of horror will likely be different than what I'm use to. But Nevill does a great job of building up the suspense and then giving us our big reveal. I felt anxious as times... basically chomping at the bit to get to the climax. So when those feeling's get evoked, regardless of the material, it's always good to me.
Another major feeling that you'll likely get, because I sure as hell did with every story, while reading these: disgust. Literally every time we got to the climax, or the point, I made a face. A few I even said "ugh" out loud. Nevill's writing is that great, where you can clearly visualize what he's describing with his creatures. Might not be how he saw them, but the way my brain created the images were plenty jarring
It's also good to add here that all of these short stories feature some type of creature, and all said creatures are grotesque. It's certainly not gory to me - which can be taken with a grain of salt because I'm not bothered by gore too much. It's not disturbing per se - again, grain of salt, I never felt disturbed during this book. Every story features creature(s), and they are just... gross. Again, the writing here... superb.
Plot(s) got a 4 only because I didn't love every story, and I think this is a fair rating for this reasoning. It's hard to fairly rate plot, I think, with a book of short stories where the stories themselves are only like 30 pages long. Overall, I enjoyed every story, but not every story really jumped at me. Speaking of which...
My favorite stories from this book: Mother's Milk, Yellow Teeth, To Forget and Be Forgotten, and The Ancestors.
I had a hard time deciding whether or not Mother's Milk was going to be on that list because to me, this is the most grotesque. This one disgusted me the most. But in that same vein... since it really impressed on me so... I do think it deserves the mention. Yellow Teeth felt a little more on the disturbing side to me, but it was such a good build up. I felt like this one definitely had movie vibes, in a good way... I'd watch it. To Forget and Be Forgotten also fairly disturbing at the end. This ending I really enjoyed, the wrap up of it all. There was something of a relief mixed with dread. I'm not sure how to really explain it. Then The Ancestors. I think this one bothered me a bit because it involved a child. So there definitely something very childlike about the POV in this one, which I appreciate when written well, and Nevill did a good job. There's also something about all the hair that's mentioned, gave me the heebie jeebies.
Overall: definitely recommend this one, with the caveat that if 1. you like horror in the first place and 2. if you like horror and don't mind more grotesque/somewhat gory horror. I recognize this is not everyone's cup of tea, so I want to make that very warning clear. I did not mind it one bit, but it still isn't quite the horror I'm yearning for. But, like I said, I wouldn't mind reading this again, and I will be looking into reading more by Nevill.
Read on beautiful people. 📖🤘
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trekkerac · 1 month ago
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i'm not like other guys i take an angsty au and make it a comedy
Ford: I've managed to record substantial evidence on tape, such as floating objects, footsteps that are not my own, and radio weirdness; The host or singer will slip in observations of my being that I simply cannot chalk up to coincidence. Whether this being is a ghost, or one of Bills tricks I've yet to discover… There are more dubious encounters such as the whispers, spine shivering chills, and of the brief shadowy figures I see down dark hallways. (Proof of an apparition? or simply a hallucination dreamt up by my sleep deprived mind?) I fear my mind is slipping further and further-
Ford: What is that blasted noise?! Stan: Cartoons got ghosts shockingly realistic! Ford: Reminds me of... being annoyed.
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hinamie · 4 months ago
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to moving forward
#my art#jujutsu kaisen#jjk#jjk fanart#jujutsu kaisen fanart#jjk art#yuji itadori#gojo satoru#fushiguro megumi#nobara kugisaki#itadori yuuji#megumi fushiguro#jjk spoilers#satoru gojo#jjk manga spoilers#hina.comic#before any1 says anything i KNOw his birthday is in december ik ik ik this is just 2 show some post-battle bonding after the trauma#its winter in canon n megumi's birthday has passed and he spent it being piloted like a mech so they need to celebrate Now!!#also this was technically a request lmao anon wanted megumi birthday angst hehehehhe i hope u like it <3 bc it KILLED ME DEAD#im going to collapse remember when i said this wasnt harder than the hydrangeas im having second thoughts#page 8 made me want to bash my head in#could have stuck with one flashback image could have left them monochrome could have done literally anything 2 ease the workload#but noooo the chronic overachiever in me would not allow it#rule of threes i had to include all of them and they Had to be in colour it wouldn't have hit the same if i had kept it monochrome#i needed it to look how childhood memories look i needed it to look oversaturated and hazy and fond but unmistakably Gone#it may have killed me but im so proud of this rn like from an art style perspective these megumis and yuujis r top tier by my standards#personal favourites r the first and last panel of crying megumi like not 2 pat myself on th back but expression?????? hello??????#enjoy your cake megumi you've earned it <333 sorry fr hurting ur feelings it will happen again#oh my god i can sleep tonight bless <333 and i met my 3 day deadline NICE im so good at what i do
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i used to be so good at writing strong, thoroughly-researched, thoroughly-edited essays.
as a kid in hs, my teacher literally came up to me, holding my 40 page essay on the intersection of the European witch hunts and capitalism/exploitation/gender roles (it was supposed to be 7 pages...whoops) and went like "this is literally a master's-degree level thesis. what are you doing?? you could literally use this as your final dissertation in a master's program, what the fuck."
NOW??? NOW?? you'd think I'd be oh so skilled. but alas. i can barely piece together two ideas. adhd skill-regression is so so real. im SOBBING
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vextech · 2 months ago
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i love that i read SO many jayvik fics about the divorce beginning with jayce being horrified at what viktor had done with the hexcore, only for it to turn out that jayce actually did not give a SINGLE fuck, didn't even flinch at the sight of his hand and leg, and was ecstatic when it ended up saving his life. i am absolutely obsessed
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yooo-lets-go · 7 months ago
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what sort of music does simon listen to- and what are the others’ opinions on it when they inevitably discover it?
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They probably wouldn’t share a playlist
Plus Roach:
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waywardstation · 3 months ago
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Look for anything (or anyone) that could be familiar
For part two:
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wanologic · 3 months ago
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and they were roommates
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todoga · 6 months ago
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blorbologist · 3 months ago
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Misc Chateau Shorthalt screengrabs because OH man, look at how happy they all are!!!!!
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bacchuschucklefuck · 4 months ago
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typical tavern scene
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my-autism-adhd-blog · 5 months ago
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I Need Screen Time at Night to Fall Asleep As an ADHDer
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AJ’s Brain
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dannypocalipse · 2 months ago
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Ok, just imagine
Danny using his ghost powers to learn astronomy (and actually discovering new aspect of his powers w/out realizing)
(post with secret eheheh)
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hinamie · 4 months ago
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mentor
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misinformationspreader3 · 3 months ago
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bet he'd kill it in a competitive fishing/farm simulator
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pangur-and-grim · 3 months ago
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Pangur is THRILLED that I have mono! her favourite thing in the world is napping with me
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