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alexalovesbooks 's review for:
The Vault of Dreamers
by Caragh M. O'Brien
FIRST THOUGHTS:
I'm a sucker for a good story premise, and THE VAULT OF DREAMERS has a really interesting one. However, I'm not overly fond of any of the characters in it, nor am I sure exactly how I feel about the ending. I'm honestly quite conflicted. But I suppose the bottom line is I liked it enough to read it in a day, though I feel there's room for improvement too.
REVIEW:
(Originally posted on Alexa Loves Books)
The Vault of Dreamers possesses a very important quality: a strong premise. The Forge School is a well-known school for the arts, where students agree to have their lives filmed for public consumption. Rosie Sinclair is a first year student who thwarts the routines forced upon students, and discovers that there's something more happening in this place - something that could prove to be life-threatening.
Doesn't that sound like a haunting premise? And, truth be told, I was completely sucked in from the start. Not only did I have the side stories of day to day life as a student at this school, but I also had to keep up with Rosie's discoveries and subsequent actions. I constantly felt like I was shadowing Rosie for a good two thirds of The Vault of Dreamers, eager to discover what truth really lay beneath the surface here. However, the way things wrap up in the last third left me unsettled and troubled, and it certainly affected how I felt about the novel overall. Add to that the fact that I just didn't feel particularly strongly about any of the characters (and their relationships with one another), and it really changed the trajectory this novel had been following for me.
The bottom line is this: I still found myself curious enough to finish read The Vault of Dreamers in one day. Like I said, it's got an interesting premise with a mystery attached that will have you curious to see what the truth really is. But because the characters felt flat, and because I felt so conflicted by the end, this novel wound up being merely an okay read.
I'm a sucker for a good story premise, and THE VAULT OF DREAMERS has a really interesting one. However, I'm not overly fond of any of the characters in it, nor am I sure exactly how I feel about the ending. I'm honestly quite conflicted. But I suppose the bottom line is I liked it enough to read it in a day, though I feel there's room for improvement too.
REVIEW:
(Originally posted on Alexa Loves Books)
The Vault of Dreamers possesses a very important quality: a strong premise. The Forge School is a well-known school for the arts, where students agree to have their lives filmed for public consumption. Rosie Sinclair is a first year student who thwarts the routines forced upon students, and discovers that there's something more happening in this place - something that could prove to be life-threatening.
Doesn't that sound like a haunting premise? And, truth be told, I was completely sucked in from the start. Not only did I have the side stories of day to day life as a student at this school, but I also had to keep up with Rosie's discoveries and subsequent actions. I constantly felt like I was shadowing Rosie for a good two thirds of The Vault of Dreamers, eager to discover what truth really lay beneath the surface here. However, the way things wrap up in the last third left me unsettled and troubled, and it certainly affected how I felt about the novel overall. Add to that the fact that I just didn't feel particularly strongly about any of the characters (and their relationships with one another), and it really changed the trajectory this novel had been following for me.
The bottom line is this: I still found myself curious enough to finish read The Vault of Dreamers in one day. Like I said, it's got an interesting premise with a mystery attached that will have you curious to see what the truth really is. But because the characters felt flat, and because I felt so conflicted by the end, this novel wound up being merely an okay read.