Nominated for a Bram Stoker Award (R) for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. "A stark and frightening novel. Horror fans should definitely seek this one out." - Booklist Some doctors are sicker than their patients. When a troubled psychiatrist loses funding to perform clinical trials on an experimental cure for schizophrenia, he begins testing it on his asylum s criminally insane, triggering a series of side effects that opens the mind of his hospital s most dangerous patient, setting his inner demons free. FLAME ...
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Nominated for a Bram Stoker Award (R) for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. "A stark and frightening novel. Horror fans should definitely seek this one out." - Booklist Some doctors are sicker than their patients. When a troubled psychiatrist loses funding to perform clinical trials on an experimental cure for schizophrenia, he begins testing it on his asylum s criminally insane, triggering a series of side effects that opens the mind of his hospital s most dangerous patient, setting his inner demons free. FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.
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Dr Drexler has cultivated a drug which he believes can cure schizophrenia, but as his boss doesn't believe in pills to treat mental health issues and his board is pushing for results he is left with no alternative but to trial on patients in secret. But what dark side affects are lurking from the mysterious treatment?
We Are Monsters sounded like a really nice fit for me as a reader; from the blurb it felt like it would be part horror, part psychological thriller that would question what it means to truly be sane. For me the book was definitely one of two halves - which divided down the middle at almost exactly 50%. I really enjoyed the beginning of the book - a mysterious drug trial secretly being carried out on patients with detailed backstory into all of our main characters and their motivations which really inspired me to keep reading.
Then at 50% we took a turn into the confusing. Rather than the drug having a real-world type effect which would make you question the cost of sanity, it seemed to influence people around it, which made no sense to me. We entered a sort of dream world/nightmare of people's consciousness culminating in a shared hallucination. I felt this really made no sense and the characters asked so many times 'how can this be happening?' or 'what's going on?' without any actual answer given that it frustrated me. The end answer also seemed to make no sense, as if the author just felt they had to come up with any answer to try and explain the plot.
I felt that the book could have been such an interesting read, with a nice set up and well developed characters but the plot devolved into an unrealistic mess, rather than something which could actually have thrown up important questions about the idea of sanity and the treatment of those considered insane by societies standards. Thank you to NetGalley and Flame Tree Press for the chance to read the ARC in exchange for an honest review.
