Intercepts

A horror novel

Hardcover, 325 pages

Published Dec. 24, 2020 by Tunnel Falls.

ISBN:
978-1-954503-01-4
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Joe works at a facility that performs human experimentation. His work just followed him home.

The government wanted to unlock hidden abilities in the human mind.

They put subjects in extreme sensory deprivation.

All the test subjects went violently insane.

But the research continued.

Today it has been perfected.

Almost perfected.

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Giving this book a higher rating mostly due to the novelty of the idea for me. Using humans as radios trying to get inside information, but it's surprising how many ethical questions aren't asked much sooner in the book. Sort of felt like going back into animal testing and believing they have no feelings or sense of pain or discomfort only because they don't express it the way we'd expect.
Otherwise very fast paced book, lots happening, and it all took place within a very short time span.

Kinda like Martyrs

This has some really good body horror. Ever since Firestarter, self mutilation really skeeves me out. Intercepts has it in droves. There was also some really good unreliable narrator stuff.

What kept taking me out of the story was the use of onomatopoeia. A doorbell never rings, There's just a line that says Ring! The author did with with bells, guns, things dropping. It didn't do it for me and killed the vibe every time.

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