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Insomnium #1 Asleep by Zachary Bonelli

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


SPOILER ALERT!! Out of the frying pan into the fire. Burnt eggs are nothing when you wake up in Nowhere. Begin with a 206 version of the Statue of Liberty scene from Planet of the Apes and then fall out of sleep into another reality whose inhabitants one-up the Star Wars Cantina menagerie and prompt an Oz-esque search for the The Farseer because yeah, Nel, we aren’t in Seattle anymore. One of the many cool things about the first installment of Insomnium by Zachary Bonelli is that he knows what the hell he’s doing. So yes, you’re hooked and want to read more but while you’re digging post-Collapse Queen Anne, Bonelli is looking long-range and discreetly launching several thematic ships that you know will eventually slice across your bow like some bot-crazed buccaneer. Anyone can bulldoze a mountain of grist into an Episode 1 but to do so discreetly is hard. Bonelli pulls it off AND has some fun with Canada at the same time. Can’t beat that.




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