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Wake Up and Open Your Eyes by Clay McLeod Chapman
3.5
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Noah Fairchild suspects something is wrong with his parents so he makes the stupid decision to drive to their home to check on them. He ends up getting violently attacked by them and then realizes that everywhere around the US many white people are attacking their families and anyone in their vicinity. He then makes his way to his brother's home, finds his nephew Marcus and does his best to make it home to his wife and daughter.

This book does a good job at showing how easy it is for anyone to become brainwashed by what they see online or on television. Noah's brother Asher and their parents watch Fax News (I will forever have "Just the fax" stuck in my head 🤢), Asher's wife Devon goes down a wellness rabbit hole, and their son Caleb adopts incel mentality. While this book mostly pokes fun at republicans, democrats are not let off the hook as they shouldn't be either. Anyway this is a really intense possession horror mixed with moments of found footage horror. I didn't exactly enjoy it but I was absolutely captivated. There is some gross sex scenes that added nothing to the story other than to gross out the reader but besides that this is an excellent horror novel that I will be thinking about for a long time.

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