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📖 Nightjars by Michael Wehunt

⭐️ HAPPY PUB DAY! ⭐️

Thank you, thank you, NetGalley, Michael Wehunt, and St. Martin’s Press for a copy of this eARC! What a ride this was!!

Luke is just a guy trying to stay clean and be the best father he possibly can be while co-parenting his four year old daughter, Sophia, with his ex-wife Kristen. Unfortunately, all of that takes a turn for the worse one night when a photograph of his repressed childhood memories surfaces on a blind date. Chaos ensues, bringing with it shape-shifting, haunting demons of the night that will stop at virtually nothing to get their hands on Luke and his bloodline.

This is a book that I just wanted to get through, but in a good way! If that doesn’t make sense, allow me to explain myself. Do you remember the first time you watched The Ring? Because reading this book was like that for me. It is dark, depressing, futile, horrible, and terrifying. There is very little positivity throughout this book. Yes, I know The Ring is based on its own book, and contains a totally different premise and monster, but the vibe of that movie and this book were just identical for me. Fortunately, The Ring is one of my favorite scary movies, and it’s totally legendary as far as I am concerned. But, like, I don’t want to watch it ever again - ESPECIALLY as a parent!

Wehunt did something really hauntingly special with this book. The writing itself was simply soaking in horror, dread, and an overt sense of discomfort that affected me from the first page of the novel. I don’t know how else to explain it other than that the tone and setting of this story were essentially characters themselves. Ugh - full body shivers and revulsion abound! This is truly scary and unsettling stuff!

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