A review by khaley0127
Somniphobia by Kelly Parra, Scott Cawthon, Andrea Waggener

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

  1. Sam was a character I did not get along with. He was stubborn and honestly got what was coming to him.
    But it does make my gut turn to know that one of his friends dogs ate his fucking face off and killed him. like i’m sorry, what kind of dog naturally does that… I don’t really remember this dog from the beginning but maybe he was introduced to have been a biter. either way, a dog capable of eating a humans face off for being still for so long is a dog i think that should be put down and i normally am not the type of person to support that.
    .  The moonsphere was a confusing concept but I think I understand that as he spent more time in it, the sphere was almost using his own energy to continue fulfilling the dreams, 
    thus at the end, all of his energy was used up and he literally could not drive his real world body to get up as he was being eaten alive by his friends dogs.
    Also I absolutely cannot blame the friends here, Sam became distant and cold long before then and this is kinda the repercussions of that. I was hoping for a better ending on this one,
    and I wonder if he just stays in a dream like state for the rest of time? I’m not sure if he ever truly gets to die if his subconscious being is trapped in a different world, a dream world.
    I enjoyed how they utilized Moondrops character to build this story, a lot better than the one with the sun guy. 4/5 stars
  2. This story pissed me off. The only redeeming factor is that the guy
    who met his untimely fate due to springlock failure in the springtrap suit, he ended up saving kids from a potential murderer/pedophile.
    But those friends of his pissed me off. First of all the manipulated him into the suit when he was clearly uncomfortable, but then after everything went down they fucking left him. including the more neutral of the friends. I was low key hoping that the guy in the Springtrap suit would get possessed and return the favor to the friends, but this was just sad.
    he just died and died a hero, but no one is going to know he died a hero when he gets found.
    3/5 stars
  3. This story isn’t really my favorite and i kept zoning out at parts. I think that the main character being fat, after being handed trauma that brought on his fear of entrapment, he developed like a binge eating disorder to counteract his fear. But, as a bigger dude afraid of being trapped, he still went into those small tubes with Ballora. I think the horror aspect of this story was a little boring,
    as all that happened was he indeed got stuck and Ballora dragged him through the too small tubes and the friction and pulling basically stretched him to death, as well as forcing some of his facial features to rip off on the sides of the tubes.
    With all that being said, he apparently survives but then
    the coworkers literally talked themselves into not reporting the man dying although they know for a fact he is alive since he was blinking. The only thing I thought was clever was that when the employees went to go check on the guy stuck in the tubes, literally dying lol, they mentioned the roleplaying arena and “checking that out tomorrow.” Insinuating that they are probably going to come across the bodies of those in the springtrap suits.
    3.5/5 stars
  4. The ending stories do not work for me. After having listened to 3 short horror stories about fnaf, I honestly do not want to listen to another story that is split up between all of the other books. It makes it really hard to follow. I really have no clue what is going on right now, and i probably won’t go back and listen. All I have gathered is teens are trapped in this building getting killed by some animatronic thing, literally ripping heads off, but I really have no context on the characters, why they are there, what’s the point of this story. It being separated between each individual book, after having read/listened to 3 short stories, it’s hard to remember anything from that last section of the book that continues where we left off 3 stories ago from the last book. I wonder if that makes sense lol. 

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