Full Immersion
by Gemma Amor
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A traumatised woman with amnesia finds her own dead body and sets out to uncover the truth of her demise in a race against time, sanity, crumbling realities and the ever-present threat of the Silhouette.—-
What can you do when you’re reeling from trauma but you’ve tried it all? Counselling, yoga, pills, meditation, art, healthy living… none of it makes a dent. What’s left?
Magpie is out of ideas. She’s desperate enough to try anything. Just when she thinks her life can get no show more worse, she discovers herself, or rather her own dead body, partially buried in the mudbank of a river. A man stands by, a familiar stranger. What does he want? And why can’t she remember getting here? Why can’t she remember anything?
Unbeknownst to her, two pairs of eyes watch from behind an observation screen, in a room filled with computers and sensors. An experiment is unfolding, but is Magpie the subject, or practitioner? Reality becomes a slippery concept. And beyond the glass is something worse still: a hint of an outline, shaped in darkness…
Magpie realises all too soon that her journey has transformed from healing to survival. She must become the hunter rather than the hunted, with her missing memories the prey.
In turn brutal, beautiful and absolutely terrifying, Full Immersion is the latest speculative horror from Bram Stoker Award-nominated author, Gemma Amor
File Under: Horror Fantasy [ Silhouette | Suspension | Bristol | Motherhood ]
**Content Warnings** suicidal ideation??; post-natal depression; implied acts of violence towards a child; birth scene. show less
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Something a bit different from Amor but still very dark and powerful, as usual. If you're looking for your horror to be jump scares and gore, this is not it. This horror is worse, in my opinion. It is in the horrible pain and suffering of the main character who struggles with her debilitating depression and suicidal ideation. This was very creatively done, props to Amor for that. This one will resonate with anyone who has struggled with or is currently struggling with mental illness.
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Protagonist is being treated for profound psychiatric problems by dodgy contemporary British academics with an agenda and a dream machine. It all goes horribly wrong. Author makes it clear from the foreword that it’s partly based on personal experience of psychiatric treatment. It comes from the heart, but I’m afraid I found the writing very clunky, especially at the start; it improved a bit as it went on.
Protagonist is being treated for profound psychiatric problems by dodgy contemporary British academics with an agenda and a dream machine. It all goes horribly wrong. Author makes it clear from the foreword that it’s partly based on personal experience of psychiatric treatment. It comes from the heart, but I’m afraid I found the writing very clunky, especially at the start; it improved a bit as it went on.
An original and intriguing book that revolves around the often unspoken darkness so many people experience. Unflinching and deeply meaningful, there are horror and sci-fi elements that make this book impossible to pigeonhole. I recommend taking note of the trigger warnings for this book.
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