Dawn breaks over Vancouver and no-one in the world has slept the night before, or almost no-one. A few people, perhaps one in ten thousand can still sleep, and they've all shared the same golden dream. A handful of children still sleep as well, but what they're dreaming remains a mystery. After six days of absolute sleep deprivation, psychosis will set in. After four weeks, the body will die. In the interim, panic ensues and a bizarre new world arises.
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It's getting harder and harder to tell the living from the dead. DAT 18, WORDS
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(@TitanBooks, 4 March 2016, 256 pages, e-book, bought from @AmazonKindle)
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This has been on my TBR list for a couple of years. I love dystopian fiction and fiction about the end of the world. I really wanted to read Nod when I read the blurb and a lot of good reviews. I really enjoyed Nod. I didn't love it but thought it was pretty great. I like dystopian fiction that's different and offers something I've not read before. I'll scream if I read one more book about a Zombie Apocalypse. I enjoyed the way the strange world is occupied by people who can't sleep who become the new normal and people like the narrator who can sleep. As you'd expect, the people who can't sleep soon become suspicious of those who can and anarchy and chaos is set loose. The only thing that let Nod down is the fact the people behave in predictable ways. Still, I enjoyed the time I spent with the book.