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A review by shmarvie
The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker
5.0
This story is nothing short of wonderful. The way KTW writes this story is very dreamlike, which only makes sense with the title/synopsis, but it’s all the more reason why this story works so well. I believe it to be very on theme with the story she was telling.
There’s not in-depth character analysis and so maybe you don’t quite connect with the characters as much as you would in something else- that doesn’t make them any less real. I know people have complained about this so i wanted to mention it. You receive just enough for things to make sense- why they dreamt the things they dreamt when they fell to this epidemic. I don’t want to spoil so I won’t say much here, but I will say it’s very smart and clever!
The story bounces around from multiple characters, sometimes connecting characters in such a genius way that is exciting to read, just like you happen to hop from one dream to another in your own sleep. While you’re in your dream, you don’t think you’re dreaming (we’ve all had those dream that feel so lifelike it almost discombobulating when you come out of it) and she plays with this with a few characters and I was thoroughly impressed.
Also there have been comments that the story doesn’t wrap up but I found it to quite nicely.
I can’t wait to read this again.
There’s not in-depth character analysis and so maybe you don’t quite connect with the characters as much as you would in something else- that doesn’t make them any less real. I know people have complained about this so i wanted to mention it. You receive just enough for things to make sense- why they dreamt the things they dreamt when they fell to this epidemic. I don’t want to spoil so I won’t say much here, but I will say it’s very smart and clever!
The story bounces around from multiple characters, sometimes connecting characters in such a genius way that is exciting to read, just like you happen to hop from one dream to another in your own sleep. While you’re in your dream, you don’t think you’re dreaming (we’ve all had those dream that feel so lifelike it almost discombobulating when you come out of it) and she plays with this with a few characters and I was thoroughly impressed.
Also there have been comments that the story doesn’t wrap up but I found it to quite nicely.
I can’t wait to read this again.