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A review by itsmekirsty28
If I Die Before I Wake by Emily Koch
2.0
~”everyone believes Alex is in a coma, unlikely to ever wake up. As his family debate withdrawing life support,he can only listen.
But he soon begins to suspect that his accident wasn’t actually an accident. Even worse, the perpetrator is still out there and Alex isn’t the only one in danger.
Alex must use a series of clues from his past to solve who the mystery of who tried to kill him. He needs to protect the ones he loves-before the decide to let him go...”~
This book sounded really good and I loved the original idea behind it. I really wanted to like this book but I just couldn’t for one, I couldn’t empathise or connect with the characters even the narrator although I did empathise a little with him. This is because there just isn’t enough to go on you only really get little excerpts of them when they visit Alex.
Alex himself has what I think is locked in syndrome which must be absolutely awful hearing, feeling and smelling the world around you but not being able to take part in it and no one knows that you can hear/feel/smell these things. It makes you put your life into perspective a little. Anyway apart from this it’s frustrating because it’s so slow to start with and you really want someone to know if he wakes up or figures out who it was that did this to him. However it took until you’re about 35% way through the book to even let on that it might not actually be an accident because until then it’s just and I’m sorry but boring little bits of what he goes through and his past life. Also the little snippets of who visits him.
Even when it does mention that it isn’t actually an accident it’s the smallest little mention. It goes back to little bits about the visitors and bea’s fascination with a letter that Alex received at some point...who is not from who either of them think by the way. Alex goes through a list of who he thinks it could be one of them being a story/case he did about a murder.
The twist is quite good and did suprise me I don’t think any of them saw it coming and it literally comes out of nowhere who put Alex in hospital but it does make sense. Apart from that the book isn’t really that great. It’s too slow to get into anything, you can’t connect with any of the characters and in the end he dies anyway and if it wasn’t for the fact bea was suspicious about someone and actually cornered them I don’t think no one would ever find out who did it as obviously Alex has no way of telling them.
But he soon begins to suspect that his accident wasn’t actually an accident. Even worse, the perpetrator is still out there and Alex isn’t the only one in danger.
Alex must use a series of clues from his past to solve who the mystery of who tried to kill him. He needs to protect the ones he loves-before the decide to let him go...”~
This book sounded really good and I loved the original idea behind it. I really wanted to like this book but I just couldn’t for one, I couldn’t empathise or connect with the characters even the narrator although I did empathise a little with him. This is because there just isn’t enough to go on you only really get little excerpts of them when they visit Alex.
Alex himself has what I think is locked in syndrome which must be absolutely awful hearing, feeling and smelling the world around you but not being able to take part in it and no one knows that you can hear/feel/smell these things. It makes you put your life into perspective a little. Anyway apart from this it’s frustrating because it’s so slow to start with and you really want someone to know if he wakes up or figures out who it was that did this to him. However it took until you’re about 35% way through the book to even let on that it might not actually be an accident because until then it’s just and I’m sorry but boring little bits of what he goes through and his past life. Also the little snippets of who visits him.
Even when it does mention that it isn’t actually an accident it’s the smallest little mention. It goes back to little bits about the visitors and bea’s fascination with a letter that Alex received at some point...who is not from who either of them think by the way. Alex goes through a list of who he thinks it could be one of them being a story/case he did about a murder.
The twist is quite good and did suprise me I don’t think any of them saw it coming and it literally comes out of nowhere who put Alex in hospital but it does make sense. Apart from that the book isn’t really that great. It’s too slow to get into anything, you can’t connect with any of the characters and in the end he dies anyway and if it wasn’t for the fact bea was suspicious about someone and actually cornered them I don’t think no one would ever find out who did it as obviously Alex has no way of telling them.