In order to prove herself, Ness cons her way into what’s supposed to be a simple job for the organization-only for it to blow up in her face. Ness will do anything to avoid becoming another victim, even if that means lying low among the Friends of the Restful Soul, a questionable organization that may or may not be a cult.īut being a member of maybe-cult has a price.

Whether that means becoming a Nightmare that’s monstrous only in appearance, to transforming into a twisted, unrecognizable creature that terrorizes the city, no one is safe. Because in Newham, the city that never sleeps, dreaming means waking up as your worst fear. Gotham meets Strange the Dreamer in this thrilling young adult fantasy about a cowardly girl who finds herself at the center of a criminal syndicate conspiracy, in a city where crooked politicians and sinister cults reign and dreaming means waking up as your worst nightmare.Įver since her sister became a man-eating spider and slaughtered her way through town, nineteen-year-old Ness has been terrified-terrified of some other Nightmare murdering her, and terrified of ending up like her sister. Keep reading this book review for my full thoughts. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but I ended up being swept away.

This one was unpredictable and thrilling. Gotham! I wondered what it would be like to be a random normal person in a city full of rampaging supervillains and monsters, and so this book was born.If you’ve been looking for a story about vampires, corruption, and nightmares, City of Nightmares is for you. The sequel comes out in fall 2023! What INSPIRED City of Nightmares? So far there’s no indication of this, but if that changes I’ll let you all know! Will it be a series?

So many.įAQ Will City of Nightmares be adapted into a Webtoon like Not Even Bones? But when she gets blown up in some random villain’s plot, she need to grow a semblance of a spine before she ends up a casualty in multiple villainous wars. She’s also a huge coward (which really, relatable given this is the kind of city where the Mayor has a pet pterodactyl that eats people). In a Gotham-inspired city that is comedically chaotic and full of so many villains they literally trip over each other’s plots in Bacanno style chaos, people are literally transformed into their worst nightmares. We follow a perfectly normal, non-Nightmare, non-villainous girl, who just happens to have joined a cult for the free rent. Alternate, less official, more chaotic fun description:

City of Nightmares by Rebecca Schaeffer