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3.68 AVERAGE
3.68 AVERAGE
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Fully enveloping
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
There were some parts of this book I enjoyed. But overall it fell flat for me. There were also way too many sections that felt like a pro-life campaign and I hated every second of that.
challenging
mysterious
slow-paced
Reading this post-COVID surely changes the experience.
But I love the Inner Light, San Junipero of it all.
But I love the Inner Light, San Junipero of it all.
Meh.
Very, very long and drawn out story of how this "sleeping sickness" started taking over a town. Just that town. Nowhere else.
Literally here is the entire book summed up into about 5 sentences:
- People are starting to suddenly fall asleep and not wake up. Alive, but can't be woken.
- More and more people are suddenly falling asleep and cannot be woken.
- Even more people.
- Then suddenly, in the last few chapters (after you've read an entire book full of "and then they fell asleep...and then more fell asleep...and then more") they start waking up.
- The end.
Oh, well I guess there's the idea that they were apparently having dreams during their entire sleep, and some people's dreams were things that were to happen in the future... But... not exactly the same as their dream. So the dream really wasn't a future prediction at all. It just happened to be coincidentally similar?
Either way, the book just...ends. With one of the newly awoken wondering if her dream was real or not or if she is, in fact, living a dream now that she is awake? And that's it. Pretty lame ending. I kept waiting for something "good" to happen. And I just knew that with the amazing imagery and beautiful writing style this author has, this book was going to end with a bang. Nope. Utterly disappointed.
Very, very long and drawn out story of how this "sleeping sickness" started taking over a town. Just that town. Nowhere else.
Literally here is the entire book summed up into about 5 sentences:
- People are starting to suddenly fall asleep and not wake up. Alive, but can't be woken.
- More and more people are suddenly falling asleep and cannot be woken.
- Even more people.
- Then suddenly, in the last few chapters (after you've read an entire book full of "and then they fell asleep...and then more fell asleep...and then more") they start waking up.
- The end.
Oh, well I guess there's the idea that they were apparently having dreams during their entire sleep, and some people's dreams were things that were to happen in the future... But... not exactly the same as their dream. So the dream really wasn't a future prediction at all. It just happened to be coincidentally similar?
Either way, the book just...ends. With one of the newly awoken wondering if her dream was real or not or if she is, in fact, living a dream now that she is awake? And that's it. Pretty lame ending. I kept waiting for something "good" to happen. And I just knew that with the amazing imagery and beautiful writing style this author has, this book was going to end with a bang. Nope. Utterly disappointed.
Another gripping, chilling novel from Walker that imagines a fascinating scenario, a dreaming sickness, and how different people respond. Engrossing and provocative. Read my full review:
https://bookbybook.blogspot.com/2022/12/fiction-review-dreamers.html
https://bookbybook.blogspot.com/2022/12/fiction-review-dreamers.html
3.5 stars. A quick, easy read that held my attention for sure! It seemed to drag a touch in the middle, but I was still pretty wrapped up in story! I love books about city-wide disease or unexplained illness (although my paranoia does slightly kick in lol). This book ticked all the boxes for me!
I don't knowwww; this isn't going to be a useful review.
It's so dreamy, but so clinical and distant, too. It hops from head to head and place to place, and you never really seem to care too deeply about someone before you roll on to the next person. It's depressing and confusing but soft at the same time, and nightmarish and complex and simple and really, really bizarre.
In the end, I'm not sure what the point was.
But I sure feel melancholy.
It's so dreamy, but so clinical and distant, too. It hops from head to head and place to place, and you never really seem to care too deeply about someone before you roll on to the next person. It's depressing and confusing but soft at the same time, and nightmarish and complex and simple and really, really bizarre.
In the end, I'm not sure what the point was.
But I sure feel melancholy.
reflective
medium-paced