Tuesday, January 8, 2019

The Waking World

The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker
Publication Date - January 15, 2019
🌟🌟🌟1/2




On a college campus on a mountain in California, a girl falls asleep and can’t be woken.  As more and more people submit to the disease, both on and off campus, the town is put under quarantine and the awake try to survive while the asleep are deep in their dreams.  I really enjoyed the first half of this book.  I love the premise and enjoyed trying to figure out what was going on.  The middle slags, though, and I felt a disconnect to the characters and felt that there were plot threads that were not being completely examined.  This had the feeling of a three star read until the last several chapters which were beautiful and superbly written.  I wish that it was a more in-depth account and that the characters’ lives were explored more fully, but overall I like the ideas behind this book and will read further books by this author in the future.  I received a digital ARC of this book through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. 

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