{"id":13054,"date":"2019-11-13T19:34:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T00:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=13054"},"modified":"2019-11-13T19:34:05","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T00:34:05","slug":"nightmare-city-by-andrew-klavan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=13054","title":{"rendered":"‘Nightmare City,’ by Andrew Klavan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Though I am not least<\/strong> among Andrew Klavan\u2019s fanboys, I\u2019m not a huge fan of Young Adult fiction, being a serious grownup and stuff. So I skipped Nightmare City<\/a><\/em> when it came out. Now I find it on sale on Kindle, so I gave it a shot. I\u2019ve got to say, it\u2019s some ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tom Jordan is a high school student, a reporter on his\nschool paper. Along with his mother he\u2019s still mourning the death of his\nbrother, who died in service in the Middle East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then one morning he awakens to a world right out of a horror\nmovie. His home is empty, his mother has disappeared, and the house is\nsurrounded by a strange white fog, in which malevolent, zombie-like creatures\nwander. They attack Tom when he goes outside, but seem to be restrained from\nentering his house \u2013 at first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A message from Tom\u2019s dead brother is broadcast from a television set. There\u2019s something he\u2019s supposed to do, but he doesn\u2019t understand. Then his girlfriend appears, urging him to go to an old ruined monastery above the town. There\u2019s also a voice he hears from time to time, which he learns \u2013 almost at the cost of his life \u2013 not to trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His searching will take him out into the fog, to his school,\nand to the old monastery. Along the way he\u2019ll realize that he\u2019s dreaming \u2013 but it\u2019s\na serious dream. The choices he makes here will have life and death\nconsequences. There\u2019s a story to be reported, and only Tom can report it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wasn\u2019t sure what to think of Nightmare City<\/em> at first. The beginning read like a standard teenagers vs. zombies movie script \u2013 lots of scares and chases and gore, not a lot of substance. But that was just the hook. The story got deeper and deeper as it proceeded, and in the end it was profound and deeply moving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reviewers compare Nightmare City<\/em> to Stephen King, but I\u2019d say it\u2019s more like Dean Koontz. And that\u2019s a good thing. I highly recommend Nightmare City, for teens and adults both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Though I am not least among Andrew Klavan\u2019s fanboys, I\u2019m not a huge fan of Young Adult fiction, being a serious grownup and stuff. So I skipped Nightmare City when it came out. Now I find it on sale on Kindle, so I gave it a shot. I\u2019ve got to say, it\u2019s some ride. Tom … Continue reading ‘Nightmare City,’ by Andrew Klavan<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[183,2020],"class_list":["post-13054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-reviews","tag-andrew-klavan","tag-nightmare-city"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}