Fever Dream, Samantha Schweblin

★★★★

A stream-of-consciousness story told in dialogue, and much like the main character, the reader is thrust into this story through unaware they are in the middle of someone's horror story. There's a suffocating sense of dread that poisons the atmosphere of this book, hanging heavy from start to finish. The reader is given a place, some characters, and the unshakeable feeling that something is wrong and getting worse. Soon the elements of the macabre, death, deals with the devil, and something slimy and infections slinks into the shadows of the story and you sense that the pieces are coming together and the picture is black.

Masterfully short and wonderfully oppressive.

* For those hung up on the writing style, try the audiobook for a more immersive experience.