“Wake no more, said the fearful small, for now I am here, to punish you all.” My name is Stella Familiar and I’m the last remaining member of the London Coven. I’m an enforcer, created to protect the city’s inhabitants from the Uncanny; to destroy the hidden monsters that seek to knock humans to the bottom of the food chain. I do what I do well, have done for decades, but now I’m facing a … now I’m facing a challenge I can’t put my fist through.
One by one the children of London are falling asleep, and they’re not waking up again. A phantom from the city’s past has returned. A creature thought long since banished has found a way to burrow back into the minds of our children, and if I don’t put it to bed, every child in London is going to close their eyes for good.
Nightmare Realm is the second thrilling title in the London Coven series, a collection of stories from The Uncanny Kingdom Urban Fantasy Universe. Find out more by visiting genrereader.com/uncanny-kingdom, and receive free books.
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Audiobook review: Nightmare Realm is an interesting and entertaining story involving Stella Familiar and the detective sidekick trying to solve the mystery of the sleeping kids. Stella once again faces off against a big bad against insurmountable odds. I really liked this audiobook. The narrator did an excellent job! I received a free copy of this audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
This review is for the audio book.
I really enjoyed the first book in the series, so as soon as I finished that one I was straight onto this book. This book was just as good and guess what I will be listening to next. You don’t need to listen to the books in order as they could be stand alone books but with the ending of this book (hmm not quiet a cliff hanger but the introduction to next plot of book 3) I highly recommend that you do. The characters are great and I still love David’s bravado in the face of danger and I liked the fact that we learnt a little bit more about the characters. The plot kind of reminded me of nightmare on elm street. where people (or In this case children) got attacked in there sleep but this is way better. I am more of a mystery fan but this series as captured my imagination as Stella and David run there investigations into who or what is causing the children to stay asleep.
Stella, a witches familiar is the only one left in her coven alive and the only protection London has against monsters. So when the children of London start to go to bed and then never wake up it is up to her to find the reason behind the super natural mystery. Police detective David is willing to help especially when his own niece is afraid to go to sleep. A school yard dare leads children to say the rhyme that summons the monster in there sleep. Can Stella and David find out the reason behind the creation of monster in order to stop it. They witches of London managed to stop it before now it’s Stellas turn.
I like the narrator and thought she did an excellent job with the voices, she had a way of making the come alive.
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
Format: audiobook
Narrator : Heather Tracy
Nightmare Realm
Stella Familiar is all that is left from the London Coven but she’s just a familiar, how is she expected to keep London safe? Until a new trio of witches comes she is all there is.
When every child in the city both normal and supernatural is in danger Stella much face the nightmare of saving them alone, or is she? there’s some interesting things going on with detective David Tylor.
Another fantastic story helped alone by this awesome narrator.
A good story but haunting. It’s a subject that hit a little to close to home. My child has changed by bullying and this book made me mad but I liked the end. I like that Stella and David are fighting to keep normals safe from the uncanny.
Stella Familiar of the London Coven and Detective David Tyler are back to keep us “normals” safe from the Uncanny Kingdom. Jake Fletcher, the Spectral Detective warns Stella that something is wrong, things seem to be unraveling. Sure enough, the recently arrived monster is “a thing of rage and fear and blind fury incarnate”, as explained by L’Merrier. It’s not something Stella can sink her fist into – how can she fight something that isn’t even in our plane of existence? She and David must come up with a strategy before every child in London is sucked into the Nightmare Realm. Fast-paced action and interesting characters, many of whom we’ve met before in other books of the Uncanny Kingdom: Razor, Lenny, David’s sister, Jake and L’Merrier. I was fascinated by the London colloquial dialog and the wild descriptions and similes. BTW, Jake has a history of his own, as told by him in Spectral Detective: An Uncanny Kingdom Urban Fantasy (The Spectral Detective Series Book 1) .
That was some seriously cool monster butt-kicking! I couldn’t put the book down! I am so ready for the next book!