'Nemesai' – John Urbancik & Brian Keene (DarkFluidity)
We're now into Week 5 of Brian Keene's Reader Recession Relief where every week, a different title is made available for 99c (or whatever the equivalent is where you are). My aim is to read along with each discounted title, as the discount hits, and that has led me to 'Nemesai' this week. As much as I'm all about revisiting old favourites, especially these days, this read-along is also about filling in the gaps and that's exactly what I got to do with 'Nemesai', a book that I somehow missed back in 2020 (to be fair, I was off sick with stress and gearing up for a dose of COVID). My copy turned up last night and it's only a short read (127 pages) so I got all comfy and started reading... It starts with the red dreams. Everyone has them every night. But they’re just a precursor, because something deep within the bowels of the earth has awakened—something we defeated and sent back thousands of years ago. First, there are scouts which decimate cities, a...