A review by christiek
Before I Wake by Robert J. Wiersema

3.0

I picked this book up because I so enjoyed The World More Full of Weeping. The topic (child death or near death) is not really a topic I am interested in, but Wiersema's writing in Weeping is so enveloping I gave it a shot. It starts off fairly uninteresting and predictable. Child hit by car, marriage falls apart and my emotions get tugged around (really, it isn't that hard to do). A third of the way through the book, the spark catches and Wiersema gets a nice flame going for an unusual story. I wish he'd have found a way to have give accident and marriage disintegration details as a back story. We just get glimpses of the writing that Wiersema is capable of. I sure do look forward to his next work.