The Sleeping Sickness

By: European P. Douglas

Narrated by: James Daniel Burkdoll

Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins

Publisher's summary

If you die in a dream, you die in real life - that used to be a myth!

Howell Warren hasn't seen another human face for over five years. If he did, that person could die at any time. This is the world of the "Sleeping Sickness".

As the world recovers from a devastating solar flare, society is just getting back on track when a strange phenomena begins. Violent dreams are coming true all over the world. Those featured in the dreams are killed in real life, showing terrible injuries like those in the dreams. No one is safe because no one can control their dreams.

The more worried people become, the more likely they are to have bad thoughts at night. It's only a matter of time before you kill someone. At least that was how it was until everyone started wearing masks and disguises, and people began to forget the faces of everyone they ever knew.

In this new world, the reemerging internet is filled with rumor and fear. Howell Warren hates living behind a mask. His new love, Catherine - many cities away - feels the same. Their one hope of a 'normal' life is to travel over dangerous, still mostly lawless terrain to make it to the city of Asitwas, a place where everyone lives as before and the only time people wear masks is at Halloween.

Can they manage to meet and cross hostile terrain to make their dreams come true. Or will the lawless world or the Sleeping Sickness get to them first?

If you liked A Quiet Place, The Silence, or Birdbox you'll love this speculative horror from E. P Douglas.

©2021 Rory McNeill (P)2022 Rory McNeill

Intense and Unique

The story of Howie, Catherine and Becky is one intense heart pounding book packed full of action that is sure to give you nightmares. The Sleeping Sickness is a descriptive dystopian book that will make you start to wonder "what if" and "could you survive" if this ever came about. James Daniel Burkdoll did an amazing job bring this creepy story to life as well as giving my imagination legs to run. I highly recommend this book to dystopian book lovers. This is my honest review that I am freely giving. I received a copy of this book for free at my request.

The Sleeping Sickness

Wow!What a horrifying story! Imagine this happening.A solar flare then a sickness that kills people you dream about? I think European P. Douglas did a pretty good job of how humanity would act.James Daniel Burkdoll was a fine narrator. I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

Very entertaning

This is a great entertaining audio book that I listened to on my 12 hour car ride and it made the ride much more enjoyable. It is a very intriguing story with an intense plot. Highly recommend.

what if you couldn't see other people faces

I got a free audio book copy of this book, and I must tell, it brought many nightmares back to life for me, imagine a reality in witch, if you dream about a loved one death, that person really dies in real life, or maybe just someone you meet by chance in the street, if you saw that person face, there's the chance that person will die because of it, that's Elm street all over again…

Howell was tired of living behind a mask and he wanted to live free with Catherine in Asitwas and for that they risk everything to meet in real life and make way to there, a promised golden city to live in freedom, and they do pretty much everything trying to get there, its a really dangerous road, they meet many freaks and people that want to finish them off, but to know more about this I recommend reading, it has lots of action, danger and at the same time, hope.

The guy reading did a great job, it was a good audio book to listen to, thank you StoryOrigin for the free audio book, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

An excellent post-apocalypse story!

One thing I have come to expect from European P Douglas’s work is to be thoroughly entertained, and The Sleeping Sickness was no different. Mr. Douglas has mixed part adventure story, part pandemic /dystopian post-apocalypse story and throw in a bit of a love story and the result is a story that I could not stop listening to until the very end, and what an end it was!! For fans of Mr. Douglas’s work, this is a must read/listen story - It’s one of his best. James Daniel Burkdoll’s narration of the audiobook is spot on, he does an excellent job of bringing this story to life.

Good Premise

Thoroughly enjoyable story that keeps a good pace throughout. Very tense in parts and the different elements come together nicely. Intriguing story line that is both out there and believable all at the same time.
Narration and editing were also top notch. Will definitely be listening to more from EPD. I received this audiobook for free in exchange for my review from Story Origin and the author.

Fantastic Book

The book was incredible and the narrator did an amazing job bringing the story to life. I highly recommend this Audiobook.

Disturbing

The author did a wonderful job keeping this story tight and providing new twists. for some reason Howell became less likeable as the story went along but then plot twist and he was decent again.

not for the faint of heart or the easily upset but a great read

A harrowing, determined journey

Received as an audio review copy from Story Origin, this is an honest review. Narrated by James Daniel Burkdoll gives a quite engaging performance of this harrowing, realistic dystopian journey that face Howell Warren, his girlfriend Catherine and Becky find themselves in... all in hopes of getting to the mysterious Utopian city of Asitwas. Something of a paradise in a world taken to it's knees by a solar flare and a sickness that means you could be killed in a dream if someone remembers how you look; making wearing of costume face masks a way of survival. Getting to Asitwas is a gritty, desperate race across the country, dodging darker, lawless places, where being an outsider is certain death. Chasing the group is two men determined to get revenge upon them for what Howell and Catherine had done to anger them. A wild, brutal adventure filled with fiery hope, highly recommended.

Another well-written story from a very good author

The Sleeping Sickness, my ninth read from author European P. Douglas. A well-written, entertaining Dystopian read, with intriguing, well-developed characters that I read in a single setting. 8 hours 39-minutes/332-pages. James Daniel Burkdoll's narration made a good book's enjoyment even more enjoyable. “I received a free Audible copy of this book and am voluntarily leaving a review." The gifting of this book did not affect my opinion of it. (RIP Marley January 20, 2014 - July 24, 2018).