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Branching Chaos
Presents the three digital novellas The Dreary House, A Place to Stay and Chance of Tragedies by Nathan Nish as one book involving multiple realities and ice cream.
Anna’s project is due today but one more day to work on it would really help. At least, until she notices shadows flickering.
Anna begins the day again in class. Through shadows shifting to become something else, she becomes trapped in a haunted house while searching for one of her friends. In another reality, she stays at a hotel with her friends during a storm as a nightmare unfolds. Join Anna for a scary tale of adventure through multiple realities!
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Contains body horror, violence, gore and death.
Anna’s project is due today but one more day to work on it would really help. At least, until she notices shadows flickering.
Anna begins the day again in class. Through shadows shifting to become something else, she becomes trapped in a haunted house while searching for one of her friends. In another reality, she stays at a hotel with her friends during a storm as a nightmare unfolds. Join Anna for a scary tale of adventure through multiple realities!
Trigger
Contains body horror, violence, gore and death.
192 pages, Paperback
Published July 17, 2020
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December 24, 2021
Branching Chaos is a psychological thriller written about Anna and her journey through different realities. She has a project to hand in but decides to give a new student the tour of the school. As the tour is happening, she experiences flickering’s and a shift. She begins the day again through shadows shifting to becoming something else. She is now in a larger house, a hotel, and on a road trip with her friend Lance.
The premise of the story is constantly shifting from one thing to another, keeping the reader intrigued. If you like materials that remain changing, this book is for you. As I began reading, there were times that I lost myself in the story. It took me a while to understand what was going on. This wasn’t anything wrong about the book; it was just me not being used to this storytelling style.
Anna vanishes as she returns to another time. The moon has crashed into Earth, and Anna is with Lace figuring out what to do next. The literature is written well, and you can certainly sense the chaos from the book title.
I recommend this book to thriller readers.
The premise of the story is constantly shifting from one thing to another, keeping the reader intrigued. If you like materials that remain changing, this book is for you. As I began reading, there were times that I lost myself in the story. It took me a while to understand what was going on. This wasn’t anything wrong about the book; it was just me not being used to this storytelling style.
Anna vanishes as she returns to another time. The moon has crashed into Earth, and Anna is with Lace figuring out what to do next. The literature is written well, and you can certainly sense the chaos from the book title.
I recommend this book to thriller readers.
March 26, 2022
I read ‘Branching Chaos’ with growing fear; a primal, dreadful terror. The book starts innocently only to drag reader into a rabbit hole of madness where different realities hit our protagonist like hammer. Something hides behind every corner and even the moon falls out of the sky. The explanation comes only at the very end and is mind blowing – the horror mixes with science fiction leaving the reader in a perplexed state of thanksgiving for our predictable presence. I dare you to read it and not sweat anxiety. I admire imagination of the author – congrats Nathan; well written novel.
October 30, 2022
Branching Chaos by Nathan Nish is a collection of three novellas, each one more twisted than the last!
This is a brilliant example of a book that you need to read more than once to really understand how deep the author goes to create this interwoven network of nightmares.
While the first section made my head hurt trying to logically follow what was going on, the second bit really hooked me, and in the third, I was so happy to see all of the puzzle pieces slamming into place!
This is a book that I need to read again and again to catch all of the little blips of the different storylines in each tale that hinted at what was to come.
If you enjoy wild psychological tales that will first frustrate you, then totally captivate you, and then astonish you, then look no further!
Check out my full review here:
https://www.ericarobynreads.com/book-...
This is a brilliant example of a book that you need to read more than once to really understand how deep the author goes to create this interwoven network of nightmares.
While the first section made my head hurt trying to logically follow what was going on, the second bit really hooked me, and in the third, I was so happy to see all of the puzzle pieces slamming into place!
This is a book that I need to read again and again to catch all of the little blips of the different storylines in each tale that hinted at what was to come.
If you enjoy wild psychological tales that will first frustrate you, then totally captivate you, and then astonish you, then look no further!
Check out my full review here:
https://www.ericarobynreads.com/book-...
April 9, 2022
It started off as a seemingly normal day at school for Anna, but some strange, unexplainable phenomena have her on edge. Shadows appear to be moving about on their own and she seems to have memory lapses, causing her to lose time. After losing track of her friend at a concert that night, Anna quickly finds herself alone and wandering down a desolate street when a single house on the strip offers her some respite from the outdoors. Although, Anna quickly realizes that the house is anything but a refuge, and her normal day becomes a hopeless struggle for survival in an endless house of horrors, leaving her questioning the very fabric of reality.
“Branching Chaos” took a complete left turn right out of the gate. There’s nothing I can really compare it to except that it feels like a drug trip induced nightmare that never ends and that you can’t escape from fueled by a creeping sense of crippling existential dread, almost like an episode of Black Mirror. For Nathan Nish, it almost seems like an exercise in horror writing as his creativity and imagination for the disturbing is on full display. Although, at times the plot could be a bit muddled and left me somewhat confused as the story jumped around between realities. There were more than a few moments that left my skin crawling from simply reading the words on the page and looking over my shoulder before going to bed at night.
“Branching Chaos” took a complete left turn right out of the gate. There’s nothing I can really compare it to except that it feels like a drug trip induced nightmare that never ends and that you can’t escape from fueled by a creeping sense of crippling existential dread, almost like an episode of Black Mirror. For Nathan Nish, it almost seems like an exercise in horror writing as his creativity and imagination for the disturbing is on full display. Although, at times the plot could be a bit muddled and left me somewhat confused as the story jumped around between realities. There were more than a few moments that left my skin crawling from simply reading the words on the page and looking over my shoulder before going to bed at night.
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