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SIKE
Dominic Crowe is an introverted nurse at a psychiatric hospital tasked with the caregiving of eccentric souls among tragic beings, both patient and friend. Everything would seem peachy, except Dominic has unexpectedly fallen ill from a mysterious omen. As his situation worsens, Dominic begins to lose his mind from utter delusion as his routine life of sanity starts to unravel. Scrambling to survive his mental torment, Dominic finds himself desperately fighting off an onslaught of night terrors, hallucinations, manic dreams, and the scariest symptom of them all - the question of his own reality.
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Published June 7, 2021
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September 10, 2021
The main character is Dominic—a troubled yet hard-working psychiatric nurse. We follow him through his routine in the dark and depressing psychiatric unit, where he ponders about his secret desires.
It becomes apparent that he's sick with something (a neurological disorder?), but he refuses to seek help throughout the book. The sickness blurs Dominic's reality with intense pain and vivid hallucinations. Nightmares manifest his life struggles—jawbreakers and heroin only provide temporary relief.
As his sanity begins to slip further, I wonder if his relationship with people is real or imagined.
With his health deteriorating, he also has no intention to find a cure and only seeks to make the pain bearable. It's like he sees no meaning in healing himself (and in life?), despite being a nurse who cares about his patients' wellbeing. But the way I see it, he doesn't think he deserves it. His dark, sad childhood has made him who he is.
His remaining motivations for life are propped by love and whatever's left of his pride. As his sickness continues to dictate his actions and cloud his mind, the reader has no choice but succumb to Dom's madness.
The setting is very well-established. Green is a genius in cinematic scene-setting. I enjoyed Dominic's dark voice, especially during insightful moments, where he's either observing people or deeply in pain. The overall build-up is a well-planned timebomb, leaving the end ever more macabre.
I was very intrigued by the nature of Dom's sickness that when I learned more about it—it had such a solid fictional feel to it. But that sickness exists.
It becomes apparent that he's sick with something (a neurological disorder?), but he refuses to seek help throughout the book. The sickness blurs Dominic's reality with intense pain and vivid hallucinations. Nightmares manifest his life struggles—jawbreakers and heroin only provide temporary relief.
As his sanity begins to slip further, I wonder if his relationship with people is real or imagined.
With his health deteriorating, he also has no intention to find a cure and only seeks to make the pain bearable. It's like he sees no meaning in healing himself (and in life?), despite being a nurse who cares about his patients' wellbeing. But the way I see it, he doesn't think he deserves it. His dark, sad childhood has made him who he is.
His remaining motivations for life are propped by love and whatever's left of his pride. As his sickness continues to dictate his actions and cloud his mind, the reader has no choice but succumb to Dom's madness.
The setting is very well-established. Green is a genius in cinematic scene-setting. I enjoyed Dominic's dark voice, especially during insightful moments, where he's either observing people or deeply in pain. The overall build-up is a well-planned timebomb, leaving the end ever more macabre.
I was very intrigued by the nature of Dom's sickness that when I learned more about it—it had such a solid fictional feel to it. But that sickness exists.
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