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A Killer Thriller
I picked up this book at 9pm thinking I'd read a chapter or two before bed. Didn't happen. I stayed up all night reading it. SLEEPER is the perfect book for people who like a monster/horror story that scares you silly but makes you think. If you liked (Preston and Childs') RELIC you'll love SLEEPER. But in my opinion it does a much better job and is a much tighter read than RELIC. Furthermore, the climax and ending do not cheat the reader. This tells in gory detail exactly what would happen if a supernatural monster was let loose in the Pentagon - without any cheap tricks. Even more eerie is the fact that this supernatural monster is less fantasy than most people would want to believe: SLEEPER is a good yarn, but it makes a chilling statement about battling an enemy that trains its soldiers to be monsters. Fans of Aliens, Rosemary's Baby and Thomas Harris' thrillers will not be disappointed.

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SLEEPER NO YAWNER
Steven Harriman (aka Steven Spruill) has written a tight, original and suspenseful thriller in SLEEPER. Although there are a couple of lengthy sequences that tend to distract the reader, he provides us with some three-dimensional characters that one can identify and empathize with: Dr. Andrea DeLuca, a brilliant herpetologist, more involved in the creature's background than she can imagine; Ed Jeffers, a conscientious and loyal member of the Pentagon, whose own disability haunts his life; and the macho Terrill Hodge, the SEALS commander with an agenda of his own.
Harriman blends these personal crises into the horror of the story very well, and there are several scenes of bloodcurdling terror. This novel isn't as good as Matt Reilly's action books or as exciting as "Jinn", but it is a good read and would like to see more of Harriman in the future.

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Pretty atrocious
This is what happens when authors have little imagination.

Boring concept, no original ideas, and twists that are either completely predictable or completely moronic.

Clever is not the way to describe this book. Painful might be, though.

The location is amazing. The characters aren't terrible. But the decisions made with the monster most certainly are. Everything plays like the authors were looking at this as an assignment, job and chore instead of labor of love. Little effort seems to be put into the wording and wordplay, and the book gets ridiculous and, quite frankly, stupid towards the end.

Stupid is actually an understatement. When you read the book you'll see why. The ending is just... ridiculously, incomprehensibly absurd. It's mind-boggling and painful.

The book begins questionably but interestingly. You need to throw what you know about the world out the window in order to embrace his, but even then you're left shocked that someone thought these were good ideas.

Good concept, absolutely awful execution.