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Wake Up And Open Your Eyes by Clay McLeod Chapman

Released January2025
Source: Library Audio
Get it at your local library or see more @ Goodreads

This was bleak and there’s a scene I’ll never forget early on but it’s definitely not a book I’d read again. It’s just too much with everything that’s going on here in the US.

The audio is very good except for the repetitive kid baby ghost show iPad thing which got on my last nerve when it was in my ears over and over again but I’m sleep deprived and short of patience so you may have a different experience.

It’d make a good companion read with CJ Leede’s new one, American Rapture, if you’re into delving into sex plagues and bumming yourself out.

I borrowed this audiobook from my local library.

Final Rating: ⭐⭐⭐1/2



Publisher Plot Synopsis (if you need one, be warned because sometimes they can spoil it all!)

From Vulture's "master of horror" Clay McLeod Chapman, a relentless and emotionally charged social horror novel about a family on the run from a demonic possession epidemic that spreads through media, for fans of The Last of Us and When Evil Lurks

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 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 trance-like state in front of the TV. Panicked, Noah attempts to snap them out of it and get 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 watching particular channels, using certain apps, or visiting certain websites. 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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