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Sleeper
She awoke that morning to utter silence, stretched luxuriously and rolled over to glance at the clock. Amy blinked and sat bolt upright. The electricity had gone out during the night and the digital clock was blank. She was going to be late, she just knew it! She jumped out of her bed and rushed to take a shower. Stumbling into the shower stall, she turned on the tap and...Nothing. There was no water. Muttering to herself, Amy clambered out and headed for her supply of bottled water. She managed to wash, dress and brush her teeth and hair. It would have to do! Grabbing her keys and purse off the table, she ran for the door. Down the stairs and to the car she went. She turned the key to...NOTHING. What was going on? She got out of her car and paused. Amy ticked off all that had gone wrong that morning. First, no alarm because of no electricity, then no running water and finally her car was dead. What gives? It was then that she realized how silent it was. Where were the normal traffic noises? Where were the people? Where?
70 pages, Paperback
First published March 8, 2013
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August 18, 2013
Reviewed by Lee Ashford for Readers' Favorite.
“Sleeper” by Sophia Frazier is really a rather unique book. As written, a young woman awakes to find the power had gone off overnight, so her alarm clock failed to wake her. Jumping out of bed, she ran to the shower, only to discover there was no water! After a quick sponge bath, she headed to her car, only to find that IT would not start. She soon realized there were no sounds of any kind, eventually coming to the realization that something had happened overnight, which apparently had killed everyone on Earth except herself.
The rest of the story is a day by day account of everything she did, relying heavily on her Amish upbringing to survive in a world without electricity, grocery stores, or… well, anything. The details of her every movement seemed a bit overdone at times, yet that is one of the first reasons I call this a unique book. With such attention to detail, this book might well serve as an asset to a survivalist’s bug-out bag.
Another reason I find this book unique is that by simply making some minor changes to the first chapter, this could easily be the tale of a pioneer woman surviving alone on the prairie early in the nineteenth century. It quite often reads like the historical documentation of a real person’s struggles of that era.
In “Sleeper” we never do find out what killed off everybody else. Whatever had caused people to fall asleep and never re-awaken, was little more than a convenient way for the author to tell the story of a strong, lone woman surviving against incomprehensible challenges. Sophia Frazier detailed the actions of the heroine superbly; it was almost as if she were relating her own biography of survival in some catastrophic circumstance. The details were accurate down to the last nut and bolt, demonstrating an almost unbelievable knowledge on the part of Sophia.
I was captivated by all the hard labor the heroine did on a daily basis to assure her own survival. If for no other reason than that, “Sleeper” is a book people should read. Even if all you get out of it is a little gratitude for today’s modern conveniences, it will have been worth your time to read.
“Sleeper” by Sophia Frazier is really a rather unique book. As written, a young woman awakes to find the power had gone off overnight, so her alarm clock failed to wake her. Jumping out of bed, she ran to the shower, only to discover there was no water! After a quick sponge bath, she headed to her car, only to find that IT would not start. She soon realized there were no sounds of any kind, eventually coming to the realization that something had happened overnight, which apparently had killed everyone on Earth except herself.
The rest of the story is a day by day account of everything she did, relying heavily on her Amish upbringing to survive in a world without electricity, grocery stores, or… well, anything. The details of her every movement seemed a bit overdone at times, yet that is one of the first reasons I call this a unique book. With such attention to detail, this book might well serve as an asset to a survivalist’s bug-out bag.
Another reason I find this book unique is that by simply making some minor changes to the first chapter, this could easily be the tale of a pioneer woman surviving alone on the prairie early in the nineteenth century. It quite often reads like the historical documentation of a real person’s struggles of that era.
In “Sleeper” we never do find out what killed off everybody else. Whatever had caused people to fall asleep and never re-awaken, was little more than a convenient way for the author to tell the story of a strong, lone woman surviving against incomprehensible challenges. Sophia Frazier detailed the actions of the heroine superbly; it was almost as if she were relating her own biography of survival in some catastrophic circumstance. The details were accurate down to the last nut and bolt, demonstrating an almost unbelievable knowledge on the part of Sophia.
I was captivated by all the hard labor the heroine did on a daily basis to assure her own survival. If for no other reason than that, “Sleeper” is a book people should read. Even if all you get out of it is a little gratitude for today’s modern conveniences, it will have been worth your time to read.
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