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Carrier Wave
Humanity listened to the night sky. What we heard shattered the world.
Listen.
Just once. That’s it.
As soon as you hear it, it has you. And once it has you, it’s over. You may think you’re in control. You’re not. You want one more listen. You want to look at that strange spot in the sky. The one that’s been slowly growing. The one that didn’t make sense… until you listened. You want to listen again, and you will do whatever it takes to make everyone else listen. By any means necessary. Even if it kills you.
Just one more listen. One more.
Listen.
Listen.
Just once. That’s it.
As soon as you hear it, it has you. And once it has you, it’s over. You may think you’re in control. You’re not. You want one more listen. You want to look at that strange spot in the sky. The one that’s been slowly growing. The one that didn’t make sense… until you listened. You want to listen again, and you will do whatever it takes to make everyone else listen. By any means necessary. Even if it kills you.
Just one more listen. One more.
Listen.
631 pages, Paperback
First published November 24, 2015
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Robert Brockway
16 books496 followersI am Robert Brockway. I wrote The Vicious Circuit trilogy from Tor Books. I wrote Rx: A Tale of Electronegativity. I wrote Everything is Going to Kill Everybody. I am but a man.
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February 18, 2022
I ain't never read no nuthin' like this, ever. Like EVER ever.
A huge story of an end of days event as told through the eyes of a bunch of people. Each chapter is someone different but towards the end some of them double up. Another novel by this author was recommended to me but having not read anything by him I thought this might be a little more my groove. Carrier Wave was a tremendous reading experience. I have seen it compared to World War Z and I think this is a way more complete and explored story, the voices of the characters and the tones of the stories is more diverse, and I felt more emotions during this than when reading WWZ. There are scary stories, thrilling stories, funny stories, sad stories, uplifting and devastating ones and there is the most wonderful one in the middle of the book about a little boy and his parents who happen to be the last three people left in their particular big city that manages to be funny, scary, sad, and beautiful all at the same time. This is a spectacular book and when some of the early characters reappeared at the end of the story I felt like I had known them for a long time and it was weird seeing how everyone transformed throughout because they were real to me. Read this freaking book, it kicks some major ass.
A huge story of an end of days event as told through the eyes of a bunch of people. Each chapter is someone different but towards the end some of them double up. Another novel by this author was recommended to me but having not read anything by him I thought this might be a little more my groove. Carrier Wave was a tremendous reading experience. I have seen it compared to World War Z and I think this is a way more complete and explored story, the voices of the characters and the tones of the stories is more diverse, and I felt more emotions during this than when reading WWZ. There are scary stories, thrilling stories, funny stories, sad stories, uplifting and devastating ones and there is the most wonderful one in the middle of the book about a little boy and his parents who happen to be the last three people left in their particular big city that manages to be funny, scary, sad, and beautiful all at the same time. This is a spectacular book and when some of the early characters reappeared at the end of the story I felt like I had known them for a long time and it was weird seeing how everyone transformed throughout because they were real to me. Read this freaking book, it kicks some major ass.
February 29, 2020
This book is like if World War Z and Lovecraft had a dread-filled psychotic baby. If you like any of the words in that sentence, you definitely need to read it.
January 10, 2021
Intense and anxiety inducing, this novel went places I didn’t expect. I had trouble putting it down, and the book lived rent free in my head when I wasn’t reading it. A cosmic horror apocalypse just wasn’t what I was expecting, but it was a great ride.
October 31, 2020
The Good: A multivoiced anthology about signals from space ripping open humanity's minds to cosmic horror, that's a mix of a mix of The Stand, World War Z, and Langford's BLIT plus an obligatory dash of the good parts of Lovecraft? Wow. That's an ambitious undertaking, and damn do I like ambition. It's also witty and fun. This is full of ideas, and if you read for ideas, I hope you dig these brilliant ideas like I did.
The Bad: The book's ambitions are a little beyond what it delivers, and each of its 630ish pages feels like a progressive dilution of its potential. The horror at the beginning quickly gives way to regular disaster/apocalyptica. We have a huge story from multiple perspectives, but it can't quite settle into their voices or worldviews, and so the attempts at diversity, while well-meaning, feel more like casting roulette on a too-long TV series by LA writers, instead of its attempted range of modern American lives. The inconsistent flopping between perspectives (omniscient 3rd, subjective 3rd, limited 3rd, 1st person) and past vs present tense feels like an unnecessary creative writing exercise. And so it's glib when it should be vivid.
In short: Great ideas. Needs a moderate edit and some heavy research. Would make the bones of a good TV series.
The Bad: The book's ambitions are a little beyond what it delivers, and each of its 630ish pages feels like a progressive dilution of its potential. The horror at the beginning quickly gives way to regular disaster/apocalyptica. We have a huge story from multiple perspectives, but it can't quite settle into their voices or worldviews, and so the attempts at diversity, while well-meaning, feel more like casting roulette on a too-long TV series by LA writers, instead of its attempted range of modern American lives. The inconsistent flopping between perspectives (omniscient 3rd, subjective 3rd, limited 3rd, 1st person) and past vs present tense feels like an unnecessary creative writing exercise. And so it's glib when it should be vivid.
In short: Great ideas. Needs a moderate edit and some heavy research. Would make the bones of a good TV series.
March 22, 2021
More like a 3.8. This book was such a fantastically fun cosmic horror ride told via disjointed and disconnected anecdotes and accounts from different folks attempting to cope with the collapse of humanity.
The ending was a little weak, felt like a flimsy Deus Ex Machina without really giving the threat they had built up enough credit. Rest of the book was great, though, and I enjoyed reading it so damn much.
Recommended for people who like Zombie, post-apocalyptic, cosmic horror stories.
The ending was a little weak, felt like a flimsy Deus Ex Machina without really giving the threat they had built up enough credit. Rest of the book was great, though, and I enjoyed reading it so damn much.
Recommended for people who like Zombie, post-apocalyptic, cosmic horror stories.
August 22, 2023
My cosmic horror baby of 2023 🥰 I absolutely LOVED this book and soaked up every second. It was a book review titled “buckle up, motherfuckers” on Audible that really got me here. I sent it to my dad while it was on sale and asked “does this look epic or what?”
His simple response was “yes” with a screenshot of his purchase receipt. He is just a few hours behind me in the audiobook. I can’t wait for our father-daughter-what-the-hell-did-I-just-read book club.
His simple response was “yes” with a screenshot of his purchase receipt. He is just a few hours behind me in the audiobook. I can’t wait for our father-daughter-what-the-hell-did-I-just-read book club.
January 20, 2024
Carrier Wave has tons of good ideas but they are often diluted in favor of survivalist action scenes. Also the writing is so confusing that it’s difficult to root for the many characters.
I really wish this story had been handled by a better writer.
I really wish this story had been handled by a better writer.
October 9, 2025
Man, I love this book. I don’t have much time for re-reads these days but I know that I’m going to want to read it again once the details fade from my memory.
Not exactly a novel, Carrier Wave is a series of zombie stories – even if the monsters aren’t technically “zombies.” Each story is set in the same world and they eventually weave themselves together into a larger narrative.
It’s a terrifically creepy concept: A sound, an audio track, that makes people go crazy. Not just crazy but almost like they’re tools of an otherworldly, extra-dimensional force. They become “zombies”, although they’re closer to the infected from Garth Ennis’s Crossed, Vol. 1 than traditional undead – only without all of thesexual assault edginess. It’s a concept that I’ve seen done before – Cell, Pontypool and The Signal all come to mind – but I feel like I’ve never seen it executed this well. If you’re at all a fan of the genre, Carrier Wave might feel like familiar ground - at first. But if you’re a looking for a well-written collection of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic stories, I think you’ll find a lot to enjoy here.
The writing starts out a bit rough around the edges for the first chapter or two but it gets better in a hurry. By the time I got to “War Bastard”, I was completely hooked. Brockway probably won’t win many literary awards but I love his style of writing. It’s so descriptive and brutal.
Each story being mostly self-contained made me feel like I was bingeing a comic series more than reading a standalone novel but I absolutely flew through the 843 pages of the Kindle edition. It’s just so easy to finish one story and start the next. I was surprised by the sheer variety and depth to the stories: I cared about each group of characters and their individual plights. I kept expecting Brockway to run out of steam, for the next story to be some generic filler, but it never happened. Every story was fresh and intriguing, pushing the overall narrative forward.
If I have one complaint, it’s the exposition. Explanations are given and, while they are fascinating, I preferred the mystery of not knowing. The carrier wave and subsequent madness are so much scarier when the cause is unknowable and ineffable. But even though the explanations do diminish the horror, they craft a more engaging narrative: Mindless killings without purpose would have gotten old after a while.
I don’t know if this will be my book of the year but it’s one that I’m very glad I added to my collection. Robert Brockway is now on my list of instant-buy authors.
Edit: I listened to the audiobook for my re-read and it's quite good. Michael Braun really kills the narration. And the book itself has held up well. Strangely, it actually seemed to be a bit on the short side despite clocking in at 35+ hours.
Not exactly a novel, Carrier Wave is a series of zombie stories – even if the monsters aren’t technically “zombies.” Each story is set in the same world and they eventually weave themselves together into a larger narrative.
It’s a terrifically creepy concept: A sound, an audio track, that makes people go crazy. Not just crazy but almost like they’re tools of an otherworldly, extra-dimensional force. They become “zombies”, although they’re closer to the infected from Garth Ennis’s Crossed, Vol. 1 than traditional undead – only without all of the
The writing starts out a bit rough around the edges for the first chapter or two but it gets better in a hurry. By the time I got to “War Bastard”, I was completely hooked. Brockway probably won’t win many literary awards but I love his style of writing. It’s so descriptive and brutal.
Each story being mostly self-contained made me feel like I was bingeing a comic series more than reading a standalone novel but I absolutely flew through the 843 pages of the Kindle edition. It’s just so easy to finish one story and start the next. I was surprised by the sheer variety and depth to the stories: I cared about each group of characters and their individual plights. I kept expecting Brockway to run out of steam, for the next story to be some generic filler, but it never happened. Every story was fresh and intriguing, pushing the overall narrative forward.
If I have one complaint, it’s the exposition. Explanations are given and, while they are fascinating, I preferred the mystery of not knowing. The carrier wave and subsequent madness are so much scarier when the cause is unknowable and ineffable. But even though the explanations do diminish the horror, they craft a more engaging narrative: Mindless killings without purpose would have gotten old after a while.
I don’t know if this will be my book of the year but it’s one that I’m very glad I added to my collection. Robert Brockway is now on my list of instant-buy authors.
Edit: I listened to the audiobook for my re-read and it's quite good. Michael Braun really kills the narration. And the book itself has held up well. Strangely, it actually seemed to be a bit on the short side despite clocking in at 35+ hours.
November 11, 2020
I couldn't get through this one. Minor spoilers follow, but only for the first 150 pages, because...that's all I read.
I thought that this book could really have benefitted from an editor, not only because there were multiple typos and spacing mistakes, but also because it took waaaay to long to reach the story. I got 140 pages in before a single character lived through their introduction. When I finally met some characters who didn't immediately die, it was children being attacked by each other in gruesome ways that made me immediately put the book down. At 600+ pages I can safely say that we get the point about the danger of the signal after the first few deaths. We didn't need a full 100 pages to establish how bad it was.
I think I might have gotten through more if the book wasn't so deeply violent and gruesome. Brockway's other series certainly had some horrifying moments, but it also had a LOT of humour and actual characters, so I didn't mind how gross it was because it felt justified and earned. Here it just felt gratuitous, and as someone who isn't a big fan of horror to begin with, I was turned right off.
I thought that this book could really have benefitted from an editor, not only because there were multiple typos and spacing mistakes, but also because it took waaaay to long to reach the story. I got 140 pages in before a single character lived through their introduction. When I finally met some characters who didn't immediately die, it was children being attacked by each other in gruesome ways that made me immediately put the book down. At 600+ pages I can safely say that we get the point about the danger of the signal after the first few deaths. We didn't need a full 100 pages to establish how bad it was.
I think I might have gotten through more if the book wasn't so deeply violent and gruesome. Brockway's other series certainly had some horrifying moments, but it also had a LOT of humour and actual characters, so I didn't mind how gross it was because it felt justified and earned. Here it just felt gratuitous, and as someone who isn't a big fan of horror to begin with, I was turned right off.
June 17, 2022
I read 340 pages. Then skipped ahead a couple vignettes when I thought it was dragging. I'm done yall. I can't do another 300 pages.
I liked the first several stories, up until and including War Bastard. But once it ventured into generic "surviving the post apocalypse" territory is where I started to check out. The idea that a sound infects people is a cool idea, and the lovecraftian nature of the unfolding event is cool. But damn does this need some editing. Some stories could be cut. Felt like diverse characters were shoehorned in without enough research done to properly represent them.
I dunno. There's some good stuff here but I need a faster payoff instead of just including every idea the author had.
I liked the first several stories, up until and including War Bastard. But once it ventured into generic "surviving the post apocalypse" territory is where I started to check out. The idea that a sound infects people is a cool idea, and the lovecraftian nature of the unfolding event is cool. But damn does this need some editing. Some stories could be cut. Felt like diverse characters were shoehorned in without enough research done to properly represent them.
I dunno. There's some good stuff here but I need a faster payoff instead of just including every idea the author had.
November 26, 2023
One of the most boring, generic "zombie apocalypse but make it cosmic" books I've ever read. Nothing was surprising, the violence is gratuitous, the characters annoying and there really is not a single original thought in this. It tries to emulate World War Z but then drifts off towards bigger and better things without ever offering a real or believable explanation. Cosmic horror just isn't scary if said horror behaves like very brutal and butthurt children.
January 17, 2022
An extremely interesting way to tell a very old story. A little long, but engaging to keep me reading, a few vignettes could have been removed.
September 17, 2024
Another on my recent run of brilliant book after brilliant book. This has a lot in common with Fever House (Keith Rosson) which I have also recently read, and loved.
This is really an exceptional book, fast paced and gory, sci fi horror at it's finest. Some brilliant takes on the zombie genre. Really fantastic scenes, creepy and anxiety inducing, I felt on edge throughout what is a long book. I see a few mention it has World War Z vibes, I am not too convinced by that, the zombies here are a lot more intelligent and omnipresent. They converse and have greater hive mind aspects. Some zombies come across like the Bogeyman, very creepy and chilling in places. There are some horrifying images drawn here of the post apocalypse world, but also some dark humour. And lots of gore. More ripped arm sockets than a MMA brawl.
And that centipede...
Overall, I really loved this.
This is really an exceptional book, fast paced and gory, sci fi horror at it's finest. Some brilliant takes on the zombie genre. Really fantastic scenes, creepy and anxiety inducing, I felt on edge throughout what is a long book. I see a few mention it has World War Z vibes, I am not too convinced by that, the zombies here are a lot more intelligent and omnipresent. They converse and have greater hive mind aspects. Some zombies come across like the Bogeyman, very creepy and chilling in places. There are some horrifying images drawn here of the post apocalypse world, but also some dark humour. And lots of gore. More ripped arm sockets than a MMA brawl.
And that centipede...
Overall, I really loved this.
January 12, 2024
I had mixed this up with Inscape in my head, I think because both have similar covers, and I had read maybe 5 pages of Inscape at the library, so I was expecting this to be a cyberpunk-y action thriller kind of book, only to be pleasantly surprised when it turned out to be a Junji Ito-esque rage zombie apocalypse kind of book. It's always fun when an author blends genres well, and Brockway does a really good job playing a cosmic horror tune with post-apocalypse instruments, though, making even the most well-worn zombie apocalypse tropes feel less cliche than they otherwise would.
September 1, 2023
This was a wild ride. A damn good listen. The way the story plays out is pretty damn believable for the most part. Human nature plays a big part in this and Brockway really hits it in some of the characters and trials they go through.
October 7, 2025
Oh boy... Where to start... I listened to this, so all my terms will be in hours, not pages.
This review contains major spoilers. You've been warned.
Positives:
-The initial concept is really good.
-... and that's where the positives end.
Negatives:
-This book is at least 12 hours longer than it needs to be.
-Far too gory and gruesome.
-It introduces WAY too many characters, probably half of which just die anyway.
-The diversity in the book is to its detriment. Every single character is a different ethnicity it would seem with no real rhyme or reason.
-Every female is a girlboss, and every male is a whiny baby. This modern trend is why Hollywood films are failing in the last few years.
-The characters don't feel real. They all feel like caricatures of what *insert ethnicity here* is supposed to be. The Native American teen carries a hatchet. The Latina girl is super uppity. The gay couple is SUPER GAY. Like they're all thrown in just to fill a quota instead of actually serving a purpose to the story.
-3/4 of the book is just bloat. The author elaborates on every single little detail with some sort of metaphor or simile.
-After the slog through the whole book, the ending is so anticlimactic that I just rolled my eyes because I was so done at that point.
The opening to Carrier Wave was one of the most fascinating concepts I've ever read. Basically a zombie virus that spreads through sound. Zombies aren't new, but the sound aspect was extremely interesting.
The first 1/4 of the book sets up events well and it made a lot of sense. But the book was absolutely too long for what it is. Which is sort of an anthology of characters that all come together in the end. However, they just so happen to be together in the end without any actual meaning behind it. They all just kind of show up together, do some stuff next to each other, and then it ends.
There was an incredibly long chapter in the middle about a group of people that just talk about their feelings and how the bully white dude shouldn't make fun of the Israeli girl. And of course they're all paired with the gay couple who CONSTANTLY put the whole group in danger because of their newly found (I shit you not) pet pig... Princess Sparkle Hog... It was one of the most frustrating chapters of any book I've ever read. Oh yeah, we literally never hear from any of the characters after this chapter except for the gay couple, who should've objectively been the first to die.
But the characters are all just frustrating. And like I said, half of them just die.
Plus, the book jumps from 3rd person to first person to omniscient all the time. Sometimes in the middle of chapters. It was somewhat jarring going from person to person trying to figure out whose perspective we were hearing at that moment. Especially at the end!
There's a MASSIVE chapter at the end that was literally 3 hours long. WHY!? And it jumped perspectives so many times and kept naming characters that I was supposed to know that I was just lost for most of it. The author would just name drop some person and eventually I understood who it was, but that character hadn't been seen for like 10 hours, so how was I supposed to know who it was!?
The timeline for the book is also wonky. It starts off okay, but then as the chapters roll on it just skips an unknown amount of time and the characters are older, but it never tells you how old. Could have jumped by weeks, months, even years, but never strictly says. So it ends up just being hard to follow.
There's also entire chapters that are 100% worthless. There's a whole story in the middle somewhere about how a whole community lives in an abandoned Costco and only one lady can go up into the light. The whole community has infighting about it and then the lady just ends up killing them because they went outside after she protested. If I heard of someone else from that little mini story, it's unclear, because I couldn't be bothered to remember the names of 100 people from the Costco commune that went NOWHERE!
Lastly, I'm very sick of stories that elevate others by putting down another. The book constantly shoves diversity and girl boss power in your face and it's just so artificial... I hate that it's become a trend to shove people into stories due to their ethnicity or sexual orientation without any meaning. This book takes place all across the US, so it makes sense that you'd have a diverse cast. BUT, it shoves all these characters together with no rhyme or reason and constantly puts down the men. And especially the white men.
Every time something tense would happen, the female character would take the gun while the male character cried or cowered away... It was so annoying to have zero competent male characters in the end. The only competent male in the story was kinda rude and stubborn and died anyway...
The cast consisted of:
-A Latina teen girl (turns into a girl boss by the end)
-Her little brother (who doesn't talk due to trauma)
-Her older brother (who goes crazy and dies)
-A Native American teen boy (who is portrayed as timid and weak)
-His Native American dad (takes a lot of time to mention that he lies a lot, is full of self hatred, and then dies)
-An old Asian dude (legally blind, who sucks at jokes, dies)
-His two daughters (twins, both bitches)
-Some dude (constantly points out he's fat, dies)
-Some dude's daughter? (mentions he's "not a real man" pointing to him being a 40 y/o virgin, so this didn't make sense)
-An old army general guy (stereotypical guy with tons of weapons, dies)
-The old guy I mentioned above (some girl infiltrates his hideout and he has some empathy for her because she looks like his deceased wife, dies because of the girl)
-A gay couple (literally contributes nothing to the story, constantly puts their group in danger chasing after a stupid pig, the girl with them wants to eat the pig because they're LITERALLY STARVING and they refuse, they end up not dying somehow.........)
-Some kid whose parents both catch "the wave" (writes everything down, plays zero part in the story, but in the last chapter he's some history teacher that's somehow important)
-A boss bitch military lady (outranks everyone)
-Boss bitch's husband (who basically just takes orders from his wife)
-Their pre teen boy (gets boners every time he sees the Latina girl because boy hormones, literally asks permission to touch that girl when she tells him to grab something from her hip pouch... WTF is that all about? They're about to die and he asks permission to touch her... That's actually the stupidest thing ever. He gets visions from the zombie people and such, but that doesn't really go anywhere)
-Some kid with a bowl cut apparently... (talks about him once and how he's some tech guru, then never uses him again)
-Some DJ guy (ends up infecting the whole planet, kills himself)
It's insane the amount of characters... These are just MOST of the main ones. All the girls survive. Most of the men die (except the gay couple OF COURSE).
The ending is so horrendous too. The Latina girl goes to sacrifice herself and then doesn't die.
And you know how they beat the zombie things? A nuke. That's it. We spent all this time building stupid little random stories just so the Latina girl can go to sacrifice herself, not die because the bomb has a timer, then they drive away and watch the NUKE explode because it's not THAT big of a nuke, and then the bomb just goes off and all is well...
That's literally the ending.
I spent 22 hours of my life listening to this garbage.
Do not read.
I'll give it a 1.5/5 because of the original concept. About as bad as Wonder Woman 84...
This review contains major spoilers. You've been warned.
Positives:
-The initial concept is really good.
-... and that's where the positives end.
Negatives:
-This book is at least 12 hours longer than it needs to be.
-Far too gory and gruesome.
-It introduces WAY too many characters, probably half of which just die anyway.
-The diversity in the book is to its detriment. Every single character is a different ethnicity it would seem with no real rhyme or reason.
-Every female is a girlboss, and every male is a whiny baby. This modern trend is why Hollywood films are failing in the last few years.
-The characters don't feel real. They all feel like caricatures of what *insert ethnicity here* is supposed to be. The Native American teen carries a hatchet. The Latina girl is super uppity. The gay couple is SUPER GAY. Like they're all thrown in just to fill a quota instead of actually serving a purpose to the story.
-3/4 of the book is just bloat. The author elaborates on every single little detail with some sort of metaphor or simile.
-After the slog through the whole book, the ending is so anticlimactic that I just rolled my eyes because I was so done at that point.
The opening to Carrier Wave was one of the most fascinating concepts I've ever read. Basically a zombie virus that spreads through sound. Zombies aren't new, but the sound aspect was extremely interesting.
The first 1/4 of the book sets up events well and it made a lot of sense. But the book was absolutely too long for what it is. Which is sort of an anthology of characters that all come together in the end. However, they just so happen to be together in the end without any actual meaning behind it. They all just kind of show up together, do some stuff next to each other, and then it ends.
There was an incredibly long chapter in the middle about a group of people that just talk about their feelings and how the bully white dude shouldn't make fun of the Israeli girl. And of course they're all paired with the gay couple who CONSTANTLY put the whole group in danger because of their newly found (I shit you not) pet pig... Princess Sparkle Hog... It was one of the most frustrating chapters of any book I've ever read. Oh yeah, we literally never hear from any of the characters after this chapter except for the gay couple, who should've objectively been the first to die.
But the characters are all just frustrating. And like I said, half of them just die.
Plus, the book jumps from 3rd person to first person to omniscient all the time. Sometimes in the middle of chapters. It was somewhat jarring going from person to person trying to figure out whose perspective we were hearing at that moment. Especially at the end!
There's a MASSIVE chapter at the end that was literally 3 hours long. WHY!? And it jumped perspectives so many times and kept naming characters that I was supposed to know that I was just lost for most of it. The author would just name drop some person and eventually I understood who it was, but that character hadn't been seen for like 10 hours, so how was I supposed to know who it was!?
The timeline for the book is also wonky. It starts off okay, but then as the chapters roll on it just skips an unknown amount of time and the characters are older, but it never tells you how old. Could have jumped by weeks, months, even years, but never strictly says. So it ends up just being hard to follow.
There's also entire chapters that are 100% worthless. There's a whole story in the middle somewhere about how a whole community lives in an abandoned Costco and only one lady can go up into the light. The whole community has infighting about it and then the lady just ends up killing them because they went outside after she protested. If I heard of someone else from that little mini story, it's unclear, because I couldn't be bothered to remember the names of 100 people from the Costco commune that went NOWHERE!
Lastly, I'm very sick of stories that elevate others by putting down another. The book constantly shoves diversity and girl boss power in your face and it's just so artificial... I hate that it's become a trend to shove people into stories due to their ethnicity or sexual orientation without any meaning. This book takes place all across the US, so it makes sense that you'd have a diverse cast. BUT, it shoves all these characters together with no rhyme or reason and constantly puts down the men. And especially the white men.
Every time something tense would happen, the female character would take the gun while the male character cried or cowered away... It was so annoying to have zero competent male characters in the end. The only competent male in the story was kinda rude and stubborn and died anyway...
The cast consisted of:
-A Latina teen girl (turns into a girl boss by the end)
-Her little brother (who doesn't talk due to trauma)
-Her older brother (who goes crazy and dies)
-A Native American teen boy (who is portrayed as timid and weak)
-His Native American dad (takes a lot of time to mention that he lies a lot, is full of self hatred, and then dies)
-An old Asian dude (legally blind, who sucks at jokes, dies)
-His two daughters (twins, both bitches)
-Some dude (constantly points out he's fat, dies)
-Some dude's daughter? (mentions he's "not a real man" pointing to him being a 40 y/o virgin, so this didn't make sense)
-An old army general guy (stereotypical guy with tons of weapons, dies)
-The old guy I mentioned above (some girl infiltrates his hideout and he has some empathy for her because she looks like his deceased wife, dies because of the girl)
-A gay couple (literally contributes nothing to the story, constantly puts their group in danger chasing after a stupid pig, the girl with them wants to eat the pig because they're LITERALLY STARVING and they refuse, they end up not dying somehow.........)
-Some kid whose parents both catch "the wave" (writes everything down, plays zero part in the story, but in the last chapter he's some history teacher that's somehow important)
-A boss bitch military lady (outranks everyone)
-Boss bitch's husband (who basically just takes orders from his wife)
-Their pre teen boy (gets boners every time he sees the Latina girl because boy hormones, literally asks permission to touch that girl when she tells him to grab something from her hip pouch... WTF is that all about? They're about to die and he asks permission to touch her... That's actually the stupidest thing ever. He gets visions from the zombie people and such, but that doesn't really go anywhere)
-Some kid with a bowl cut apparently... (talks about him once and how he's some tech guru, then never uses him again)
-Some DJ guy (ends up infecting the whole planet, kills himself)
It's insane the amount of characters... These are just MOST of the main ones. All the girls survive. Most of the men die (except the gay couple OF COURSE).
The ending is so horrendous too. The Latina girl goes to sacrifice herself and then doesn't die.
And you know how they beat the zombie things? A nuke. That's it. We spent all this time building stupid little random stories just so the Latina girl can go to sacrifice herself, not die because the bomb has a timer, then they drive away and watch the NUKE explode because it's not THAT big of a nuke, and then the bomb just goes off and all is well...
That's literally the ending.
I spent 22 hours of my life listening to this garbage.
Do not read.
I'll give it a 1.5/5 because of the original concept. About as bad as Wonder Woman 84...
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
May 23, 2022
Brutal. This book is brutal.
My friend dropped this book into a conversation once, and I thought I would give it a shot. The story is interesting, and it took a few chapters to understand how it was being told. Each chapter was more of an essay (novella in some cases) about the destruction of humanity through an audio and visual contagion. After a couple chapters, I realized that characters were not coming back, and that made it easier to settle in.
But it was hard to get comfortable with a book where nothing good happens. The action is very brutal. The things people turn into resemble zombies, and then there is a sentience to them. The Merry and the Judges were just terrifying. I had a hard time visualizing what the sky must have looked like, and I really wonder what the planet would have looked like from somewhere else in the solar system.
The last chapter jumps from multiple viewpoints all with characters from some previous chapters. That is where I feel the book lost its footing a little. This was going to be a hard story to end no matter what. But bringing in characters was a nice way to bring it all together.
I don't want to see a movie of this. But I think vignettes in this story would be interesting. I wouldn't recommend this for most people, unless you like this kind of thing. One thing that helps a lot is the author's humor. He is very funny and witty. That helps. In many cases, it makes the stories very human.
My friend dropped this book into a conversation once, and I thought I would give it a shot. The story is interesting, and it took a few chapters to understand how it was being told. Each chapter was more of an essay (novella in some cases) about the destruction of humanity through an audio and visual contagion. After a couple chapters, I realized that characters were not coming back, and that made it easier to settle in.
But it was hard to get comfortable with a book where nothing good happens. The action is very brutal. The things people turn into resemble zombies, and then there is a sentience to them. The Merry and the Judges were just terrifying. I had a hard time visualizing what the sky must have looked like, and I really wonder what the planet would have looked like from somewhere else in the solar system.
The last chapter jumps from multiple viewpoints all with characters from some previous chapters. That is where I feel the book lost its footing a little. This was going to be a hard story to end no matter what. But bringing in characters was a nice way to bring it all together.
I don't want to see a movie of this. But I think vignettes in this story would be interesting. I wouldn't recommend this for most people, unless you like this kind of thing. One thing that helps a lot is the author's humor. He is very funny and witty. That helps. In many cases, it makes the stories very human.
January 14, 2021
The book was meh. Overall I didn't like it. It takes a very long time to pick up some pace and even then I didn't quite care. I strongly disliked the ending. Of course that's personal preference. I'm a fan of r/HFY because it feels every SF book is the opposite and I am so tired of that.
January 7, 2025
An original apocalyptic, cosmic horror story told from multiple perspectives. Each chapter can almost be read as an independent short story, gradually building a narrative that culminates in a big final confrontation. The average quality of these stories is great, featuring a wide and diverse cast of characters, most of whom are very well characterized. The tone also varies between the stories, being most of them terrifying, with some leaning more toward humor and others being action-packed.
I really liked the beginning of the story, with its weird phenomena transmitted through sound waves. I also enjoyed the cosmic pantheon that serves as the story's backdrop. Overall, it’s a great book. The ending felt a bit weaker compared to the rest of the book, making me almost wish the story had ended 150 pages earlier without a clear conclusion.
I really liked the beginning of the story, with its weird phenomena transmitted through sound waves. I also enjoyed the cosmic pantheon that serves as the story's backdrop. Overall, it’s a great book. The ending felt a bit weaker compared to the rest of the book, making me almost wish the story had ended 150 pages earlier without a clear conclusion.
November 6, 2021
The first half of this book reads like an 80’s slasher film, just gore for the sake of gore with no impact on the plot or meaningful development to almost any characters. Whole chapters are just a violent digression from the core story and at a certain point they stop adding the atmosphere they were probably intended to set, and just become distracting.
The second half is touching, insightful, clever, and really unique; it’s borderline frustrating how much better it gets. If you have a strong stomach, it’s absolutely worth sticking with.
The second half is touching, insightful, clever, and really unique; it’s borderline frustrating how much better it gets. If you have a strong stomach, it’s absolutely worth sticking with.
April 27, 2022
"Mum, can we have The Stand?"
"We have The Stand at home."
The Stand at home: Carrier Wave.
Rounded up from 2.5 stars. I gave up at 90% and skipped to the end because Carrier Wave is a mainstream horror novel that was sold to me as science fiction. Spoiler: it isn't.
"We have The Stand at home."
The Stand at home: Carrier Wave.
Rounded up from 2.5 stars. I gave up at 90% and skipped to the end because Carrier Wave is a mainstream horror novel that was sold to me as science fiction. Spoiler: it isn't.
March 30, 2021
This is one of the few times I can actually say I had difficulty putting a book down. The story is an interesting spin on cosmic horror lightly seasoned with zombie/contagion tropes, which winds up being more interesting than the sum of those parts might make you think. The world and characters are well-developed and the dialogue in particular is fantastic. However, the real treat is Brockway's wonderful experiment in using tone, tense, and POV as fluid variables to be played with in every new chapter. Though that may sound jarring, it's executed masterfully, and was one of the reasons I chewed through this book in record time.
The only major flaw is that the book occasionally stumbles off course to dabble in B-movie splatterfilm dreck. Rather than summoning up the disgust or terror that Brockway was aiming for, it instead causes cringing and eyerolls until the plot is mercifully allowed to resume course. In particular, the handful of scenes where children are mutilated and/or murdered in extreme, graphic detail is the sort of edgelord fluff that a good editor would scrap and a better storyteller wouldn't have to lean on to try and evoke emotion in their readers.
Despite that one glaring flaw, this book still has enough bonus points in the bank to sail through with an easy 4/5. However, I can't help but feel that there was a real missed opportunity here: if it weren't for the unfortunate and unnecessary forays into splatter-flick-with-$100-budget territory, Brockway's otherwise excellent grasp of writing technique would have made this novel a safe inclusion in any creative writing course's reading list. Rather than adding anything of value, the ultra-violent scenes will instead cause many potential readers to pass this book up completely, which is a damn shame and likely why it has a middling 150 ratings despite being published more than a year ago.
Overall, Carrier Wave is a good novel. Sadly, the occasional blocks of text that read like Cannibal Corpse lyrics will forever prevent it from being a great one.
The only major flaw is that the book occasionally stumbles off course to dabble in B-movie splatterfilm dreck. Rather than summoning up the disgust or terror that Brockway was aiming for, it instead causes cringing and eyerolls until the plot is mercifully allowed to resume course. In particular, the handful of scenes where children are mutilated and/or murdered in extreme, graphic detail is the sort of edgelord fluff that a good editor would scrap and a better storyteller wouldn't have to lean on to try and evoke emotion in their readers.
Despite that one glaring flaw, this book still has enough bonus points in the bank to sail through with an easy 4/5. However, I can't help but feel that there was a real missed opportunity here: if it weren't for the unfortunate and unnecessary forays into splatter-flick-with-$100-budget territory, Brockway's otherwise excellent grasp of writing technique would have made this novel a safe inclusion in any creative writing course's reading list. Rather than adding anything of value, the ultra-violent scenes will instead cause many potential readers to pass this book up completely, which is a damn shame and likely why it has a middling 150 ratings despite being published more than a year ago.
Overall, Carrier Wave is a good novel. Sadly, the occasional blocks of text that read like Cannibal Corpse lyrics will forever prevent it from being a great one.
April 5, 2021
Highly enjoyable.
Didn't think it would be possible to have so many interwoven stories and characters wind up in a neat little bow, but I came away from it pretty satisfied with the ending and the logic of it all.
I enjoyed the characters and the first few introductions to the different types of 'monster' are genuinely well written horror. I don't think I have any real problems with the pacing or way things were revealed over time, although there were a few cases where it just sort of dumped a ton of information in one go later on - mainly during the interview with the Mechanic on the land train which effectively serves as the whole explanation in one fell swoop - when I was enjoying piecing things together on my own terms up to that point.
The earlier chapters serve as a good introduction to everything you need to know about what the rest of the story involves, I think. There were plenty of "oh what the fuck" moments early on which weren't really repeated in a gratuitous fashion as things progressed, which I was happy about. As an example, I feel like repeatedly going over the sadistic behaviour of certain 'monsters' - the first Merry we meet and the way he kills everyone in the lab comes to mind - would've gotten a bit old hat. I was glad that it never outstayed its welcome.
I think the last chapter may have been better off as some shorter chapters overall, but I appreciated what it was trying to do all the same and it was nice to see certain characters from earlier on in the book reappear.
I also didn't mind how the infection ended up spreading on a large scale. It was rooted in something tangible and as something that could - and probably would - happen. There were a few contrivances to get the plot device in the right hands but nothing that was in the realm of unbelievable or absurd.
Overall, this is one of those books I wouldn't struggle with recommending to people and I'm glad to have read it.
Didn't think it would be possible to have so many interwoven stories and characters wind up in a neat little bow, but I came away from it pretty satisfied with the ending and the logic of it all.
I enjoyed the characters and the first few introductions to the different types of 'monster' are genuinely well written horror. I don't think I have any real problems with the pacing or way things were revealed over time, although there were a few cases where it just sort of dumped a ton of information in one go later on - mainly during the interview with the Mechanic on the land train which effectively serves as the whole explanation in one fell swoop - when I was enjoying piecing things together on my own terms up to that point.
The earlier chapters serve as a good introduction to everything you need to know about what the rest of the story involves, I think. There were plenty of "oh what the fuck" moments early on which weren't really repeated in a gratuitous fashion as things progressed, which I was happy about. As an example, I feel like repeatedly going over the sadistic behaviour of certain 'monsters' - the first Merry we meet and the way he kills everyone in the lab comes to mind - would've gotten a bit old hat. I was glad that it never outstayed its welcome.
I think the last chapter may have been better off as some shorter chapters overall, but I appreciated what it was trying to do all the same and it was nice to see certain characters from earlier on in the book reappear.
I also didn't mind how the infection ended up spreading on a large scale. It was rooted in something tangible and as something that could - and probably would - happen. There were a few contrivances to get the plot device in the right hands but nothing that was in the realm of unbelievable or absurd.
Overall, this is one of those books I wouldn't struggle with recommending to people and I'm glad to have read it.
April 3, 2021
Decent novel however the ending did not deliver what the preceding 600 pages built up. It felt rushed, like the author was unsure of how to resolve the overall story in one book. Entire relationships between major characters were completely developed “off screen” and then later referenced like the reader had prior knowledge of this.
There were many other things that happened throughout the book that were never fully explained or things that just didn’t tie in to the rest of the story. A little of that is expected as it’s in anthology form, but with the overarching storyline, consistency is key. An example: The “sleepers” supposedly killed so fast and so thoroughly that you could barely see them as they did so, let alone defend yourself. However, one of the main characters at the end, a young girl mind you, gets attacked by a sleeper and not only survives it, but manages to kill that sleeper AND another one nearby, all alone. Inconsistent with what we already know about the sleepers. Another example: Also, if humanity survives, wouldn’t the beings trying to wipe out humanity also survive and remain a constant threat since without their “gifts” humans would be reduced to animals? Inconsistent with the rest of the novel. The entire reason for the threat in the first place just falls flat on its face with a shrug. Oh, and we also don’t find out for sure that kids weren’t affected until the very end. An important bit of information that’s super relevant to the world building attempted here.
Anyways, overall entertaining read that falls short at the rushed, inconsistent, ending.
There were many other things that happened throughout the book that were never fully explained or things that just didn’t tie in to the rest of the story. A little of that is expected as it’s in anthology form, but with the overarching storyline, consistency is key. An example: The “sleepers” supposedly killed so fast and so thoroughly that you could barely see them as they did so, let alone defend yourself. However, one of the main characters at the end, a young girl mind you, gets attacked by a sleeper and not only survives it, but manages to kill that sleeper AND another one nearby, all alone. Inconsistent with what we already know about the sleepers. Another example: Also, if humanity survives, wouldn’t the beings trying to wipe out humanity also survive and remain a constant threat since without their “gifts” humans would be reduced to animals? Inconsistent with the rest of the novel. The entire reason for the threat in the first place just falls flat on its face with a shrug. Oh, and we also don’t find out for sure that kids weren’t affected until the very end. An important bit of information that’s super relevant to the world building attempted here.
Anyways, overall entertaining read that falls short at the rushed, inconsistent, ending.
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July 5, 2023
I just finished Carrier Wave by Robert Brockway and wrote my obligatory review that my Kindle demands of me before I can even get my brain back into gear, but it sounds sucky and generic so here's my real review: I didn't want to stop reading it. Every time I had to put it down to do something else I got annoyed. I got annoyed when I turned my Kindle on and it took goddamn ten minutes to actually load it (after downloading it again WTF how many times do I have to download this thing, Amazon?) I loved Rx (I reread it every so often) and loved his writing on Cracked and love his 1-900-Hotdog stuff and I loved this too. His writing is compelling and appealing and his characters are human and sympathetic and the situations they're in are tense and vividly rendered and made me for-real anxious. There is gore and body horror and peril so well and thoroughly described that I've seen reviewers complain about it like it's a movie they don't want their kids to see. You like the characters, you hate the characters, you hold your breath while characters try and fail and succeed at escaping danger. If you like the storytelling style of World War Z and like zombie survival horror with a twist (no undead here, not exactly) and cosmic horror, read this. If you get nervous at us sending signals out to the unknown depths of space and worry about what might answer (especially if you suspect that's why we're not getting signals from elsewhere, that any extraterrestrial life out there refrains from sending signals out for a reason) read this. Just read this, if you hate it you can come back and yell at me.
Unless you're upset about non-binary demon princes mis-gendering your gun. 😝
Unless you're upset about non-binary demon princes mis-gendering your gun. 😝
January 15, 2024
4.5 stars
This book has more than 600 pages, but has i finished it , it din't felt like it for me ,i guess that is a good thing.
When a author goes for the zombie horde killing all trope ,he knows it will be hard for him to put something new ,fresh or a little different on the genre ,but i think ( at least has my reading experience goes) that Robert Brockway pull it off.
The story its told through multiple prespectives and peripheral stories,most of them interwine and we see the plot progress and explain itself this way. Similar to World War Z in a way.
One that resonated with me was Siege Tower.
Of course that some of this stories are stronger than others but i think that almost all had something to add to the main narrative and they kept me engage through the all thing.
As from about one third of the book the horror shifts more and more from gore/survivalist
to cosmic, and stays there till the end.
Some of the strong points are the small appointments of humor ,well dosed and spaced on the characters and dialogues ,and the different kinds of infection and symptoms who ravage humanity, creative.
There are also a couple of cool characters who we see grow.
As lows, I point out some cosmic elements such as a kind of super strenght some infected gain and most of all , the finale , i won´t say more but it let me disappointed.
Good book ,easy prose, imaginative , fun , violent , enjoy the ride.
This book has more than 600 pages, but has i finished it , it din't felt like it for me ,i guess that is a good thing.
When a author goes for the zombie horde killing all trope ,he knows it will be hard for him to put something new ,fresh or a little different on the genre ,but i think ( at least has my reading experience goes) that Robert Brockway pull it off.
The story its told through multiple prespectives and peripheral stories,most of them interwine and we see the plot progress and explain itself this way. Similar to World War Z in a way.
One that resonated with me was Siege Tower.
Of course that some of this stories are stronger than others but i think that almost all had something to add to the main narrative and they kept me engage through the all thing.
As from about one third of the book the horror shifts more and more from gore/survivalist
to cosmic, and stays there till the end.
Some of the strong points are the small appointments of humor ,well dosed and spaced on the characters and dialogues ,and the different kinds of infection and symptoms who ravage humanity, creative.
There are also a couple of cool characters who we see grow.
As lows, I point out some cosmic elements such as a kind of super strenght some infected gain and most of all , the finale , i won´t say more but it let me disappointed.
Good book ,easy prose, imaginative , fun , violent , enjoy the ride.
August 16, 2020
Carrier Wave was not what I was expecting. At first glance, I assumed it would be something similar to either first contact with aliens or a government conspiracy plot to brainwash humanity.
Instead, we get cosmic horror crossed with World War Z, as many have said. The book is divided into several smaller stories of varying length. We meet new characters and see them either survive or die, and by the end of the book, a few of these characters make an appearance. The stories themselves have their own progression - the first few slowly introduce us to the disease and its effects in gory fashion. Then, there is the transition where the whole world ends in spectacular fashion thanks to the Internet, and from there we see humans adapt to a changed reality and eventually take back the world from these “invaders”.
Although, based on who these invaders are, could our heroes truly be free from their influence?
Carrier Wave was a solid book - the gory details deterred me at first, but for some reason I kept coming back to it, much like the humans kept staring at that black spot in the sky. However, I do feel that this book was a bit long, and some stories were a bit difficult to get through without me skimming a few pages.
Instead, we get cosmic horror crossed with World War Z, as many have said. The book is divided into several smaller stories of varying length. We meet new characters and see them either survive or die, and by the end of the book, a few of these characters make an appearance. The stories themselves have their own progression - the first few slowly introduce us to the disease and its effects in gory fashion. Then, there is the transition where the whole world ends in spectacular fashion thanks to the Internet, and from there we see humans adapt to a changed reality and eventually take back the world from these “invaders”.
Although, based on who these invaders are, could our heroes truly be free from their influence?
Carrier Wave was a solid book - the gory details deterred me at first, but for some reason I kept coming back to it, much like the humans kept staring at that black spot in the sky. However, I do feel that this book was a bit long, and some stories were a bit difficult to get through without me skimming a few pages.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
April 18, 2020
Cosmic Horror Meets World War Z
The large bulk of this book is an anthology following the collapse of civilization due to cosmic malevolence. It’s a fun idea, executed well. But for me, something was missing.
I keep thinking back to World War Z, which feels similar in many ways. Both books tell an apocalyptic tale of people turning on people. Both are told from lots of perspectives. I liked WWZ quite a lot. I liked this book as well, but my attention wandered quite a bit. It didn’t quite grab me as I thought it would. I think when you come down to it, perhaps it’s the utter powerlessness of all the characters. They are puppets thrown against a hurricane. They have no agency except “run and/or hide”.
I also think I have a tough time with anthologies because I know the characters are generally only with us for a short time. This is especially true of horror anthologies like this, where most everyone on the planet is brutally slaughtered.
Still. It’s a good, fun, and refreshingly long book. It’s worth a look if you enjoy cosmic horror. Just don’t get too attached to anyone.
The large bulk of this book is an anthology following the collapse of civilization due to cosmic malevolence. It’s a fun idea, executed well. But for me, something was missing.
I keep thinking back to World War Z, which feels similar in many ways. Both books tell an apocalyptic tale of people turning on people. Both are told from lots of perspectives. I liked WWZ quite a lot. I liked this book as well, but my attention wandered quite a bit. It didn’t quite grab me as I thought it would. I think when you come down to it, perhaps it’s the utter powerlessness of all the characters. They are puppets thrown against a hurricane. They have no agency except “run and/or hide”.
I also think I have a tough time with anthologies because I know the characters are generally only with us for a short time. This is especially true of horror anthologies like this, where most everyone on the planet is brutally slaughtered.
Still. It’s a good, fun, and refreshingly long book. It’s worth a look if you enjoy cosmic horror. Just don’t get too attached to anyone.
December 20, 2022
Neat concepts, rough edges
The original variation on a zombie concept was enough to keep me interested and reading, but the book could probably have used another writing pass and some editing.
It took Brockway several chapter-stories to hit his stride and start developing the characters and scenes, and it was hard to get into it or care about the characters beyond a morbid curiosity until then.
Once he hit his stride, the characters and scenarios got more interesting and more engaging and made the story worthwhile.
It could still have used some editing to deal with the extraneous and dropped words, and to correct the erroneous early passage that describes entropy and ambition as opposing intents to match the latter passage that paired apathy and ambition. Describing the characters when introducing them would also have prevented the confusion in later stories where they are described before their names are mentioned and the reader has no prior description to match them to.
This could have been a four or five star book if Brockway had taken the time to bring all the story-chapters up to the quality of the best few.
The original variation on a zombie concept was enough to keep me interested and reading, but the book could probably have used another writing pass and some editing.
It took Brockway several chapter-stories to hit his stride and start developing the characters and scenes, and it was hard to get into it or care about the characters beyond a morbid curiosity until then.
Once he hit his stride, the characters and scenarios got more interesting and more engaging and made the story worthwhile.
It could still have used some editing to deal with the extraneous and dropped words, and to correct the erroneous early passage that describes entropy and ambition as opposing intents to match the latter passage that paired apathy and ambition. Describing the characters when introducing them would also have prevented the confusion in later stories where they are described before their names are mentioned and the reader has no prior description to match them to.
This could have been a four or five star book if Brockway had taken the time to bring all the story-chapters up to the quality of the best few.
May 30, 2020
Once again, I find myself reading a book I don't remember anything about. I guess this must have been on some list or other, and I'm 99% sure that I thought it was a first contact sci-fi story. Spoiler: It is not. It is not really sci-fi at all, it's pretty much cosmic horror. That's not a bad thing, but, past Roybot should really have paid more attention to that fact.
Other reviews have made the comparison to World War Z, which is totally fair. Told in a series of short stories that eventually coalesce as a number of characters from earlier stories end up in the same place dealing with the same danger, it would be hard *not* to make the WWZ comparison.
That said, I liked WWZ, and the formula mostly works here, as well. Not perfectly; there are a few segments that feel a little slow or where there are "twists" that are pretty obvious well before they actually come up, but if you want a creepy horror story that comes from a weird direction that I, at least, haven't seen before, this is a solid selection.
Other reviews have made the comparison to World War Z, which is totally fair. Told in a series of short stories that eventually coalesce as a number of characters from earlier stories end up in the same place dealing with the same danger, it would be hard *not* to make the WWZ comparison.
That said, I liked WWZ, and the formula mostly works here, as well. Not perfectly; there are a few segments that feel a little slow or where there are "twists" that are pretty obvious well before they actually come up, but if you want a creepy horror story that comes from a weird direction that I, at least, haven't seen before, this is a solid selection.
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