Static Screams by Nico Bell

I received this book for free from the Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. Static Screams by Nico Bell Published by Self Published on 2024 Genres: Horror Pages: 120 Format: ARC , eBook Source: Author Goodreads Carmen Franco’s untethered mind twists reality into a nightmare filled with relentless hallucinations.
Carmen’s greatest desire is a peaceful life, but despite countless doctors and swallowing a pharmacy’s worth of pills, Carmen can’t escape her disturbing delusions brought forth from a past tragedy.
Enter Dr. Barbara MacDonald, a brilliant psychologist proposing an innovative and experimental treatment program. Barbara ignites a flicker of hope, but Carmen quickly realizes the doctor’s motives aren’t exactly pure. Carmen holds the key to the one thing Barbara covets most in the world, and the determined psychologist intends to obtain it by any means necessary.
Now, Carmen races against the clock to save herself as madness and deception converge. Will she unravel Barbara’s menacing motives before time runs out or will Carmen fall prey to the dark abyss pulling her in?

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Static Screams is set to be one of the best horror novella’s set for release in 2024! This is something really special!



Sometimes you are given the most sublime mashup that you didn’t know you needed. Horror and Sci-fi, although bled from the same wound, each leaves a different taste in the mouth. Nico Bell has mixed the two together and given us an almost sixth sense x Carrie type scenario. Open this book and time will cease to matter, the housework will become unimportant, the need for food – the only need you have to cater to is finding out where this story goes!



The title and gorgeous cover is what hooked me. I know I mentioned above about the protagonist, Carmen Franco seeing dead people, I mean I suppose she does but not in the hit movie ‘I see dead people’ kind of way, no, this is far more refined, way more intelligent than that. Static Screams takes the tragic event of Carmen’s mother passing away and turning it into a terrifying scenario of Carmen being used in illegal scientific experiments.



I took a liking to Carmen Franco, a nineteen-year-old girl, struggling in the aftermath of her mother’s death. She thinks she’s going insane. Every time she closes her eyes, she sees black dots in her vision. She can barely live with it anymore. When Carmen and her aunt are involved in a car crash, Carmen is introduced to the shady, Dr. Barbara MacDonald. A woman who is dealing with her own grief, in if I might be so bold, in a wholly unhealthy way. She believes that Carmen is the key to both her career advancement and her to her deceased daughter. Carmen Franco is one spunky young adult, and I couldn’t help but root for her!



The story unfolds in a skilfully crafted manner. The plot is carefully developed, with twists and turns that surprised me. I didn’t expect it to go the way it did but boy am I happy it did!



Nico Bell is an extremely strong voice in female led horror and I was delighted to get an opportunity to read this one early. There’s never a wasted word in her stories, every single one leading up to its crushing conclusion. I absolutely loved this story!




Nico is the author of Beyond the Creek and Food Fright .



Nico started her writing career as a inspirational romance fiction writer under a different name. She was a semi-finalist in the American Christian Fiction Writer Genesis Contest (ACFW), a finalist in the Romance Writers of America (RWA) Music City Melody of Love Contest, a finalist in the Splickety and My Book Therapy Flash Fiction contest, and a finalist in the RWA Great Beginnings Contest.



Her love of dark characters, sinister plots, and delicious mayhem led Nico towards her true passion: horror. Her debut horror book Food Fright was released in 2020 and was a semi-finalist in the 2020 Bookish Jazz Awards, Adult Fiction Category for Horror. She is the editor and publisher of Shiver: A Chilling Horror Anthology and the co-editor of Diet Riot: A Fatterpunk Anthology and Mine: A Body Autonomy Horror Collection. Her stories have been published in several collections including Under Her Skin , Chlorophobia: An Eco Horror Anthology , and Bone & Blood.



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