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karastotle 's review for:
Reverie
by Ryan La Sala
First of all, I must say that the writing style of this book is absolutely lovely and it really swept me away. That kind of prose isn’t super common in YA and I was pleasantly surprised to find it here. Based on Ryan’s Twitter account, I was expecting a more sassy and contemporary voice, more in keeping with what I’ve seen the excerpt from his second book. However, I think that the elegant prose worked super well with the dream world and really mirrored how boundaries between time and space got blurred.
I read this book more quickly than I expected to, partly because many of the action scenes are quite long. They’re broken up into short chapters, but there will be big sections of 6-10 chapters that are really all one long scene, which made it hard to stop reading because I don’t like to quit in the middle of a scene. I will say that not all of the plot made sense, especially when combined with the world building, but the dream logic of the world allows the author to hand wave a lot so I wasn’t overly bothered by it.
Kane is a good main character, but I found myself really loving the supporting characters as well, especially Ursula and Adeline and Sophia. They friend group was loving and supportive but messy and full of conflict, which made for fun reading. Having a main character with amnesia of any sort is always difficult to pull off, but Kane was still compelling even if he didn’t really know who he was.
I read this book more quickly than I expected to, partly because many of the action scenes are quite long. They’re broken up into short chapters, but there will be big sections of 6-10 chapters that are really all one long scene, which made it hard to stop reading because I don’t like to quit in the middle of a scene. I will say that not all of the plot made sense, especially when combined with the world building, but the dream logic of the world allows the author to hand wave a lot so I wasn’t overly bothered by it.
Kane is a good main character, but I found myself really loving the supporting characters as well, especially Ursula and Adeline and Sophia. They friend group was loving and supportive but messy and full of conflict, which made for fun reading. Having a main character with amnesia of any sort is always difficult to pull off, but Kane was still compelling even if he didn’t really know who he was.