“When working with an unknown situation, you have to identify known factors and work within their boundaries.”
Cata Cordova suffers from such debilitating insomnia that she agreed to take part in an experimental new procedure. She thought things couldn’t get any worse…but she was terribly wrong.
Soon after the experiment begins, there’s a malfunction with the lab equipment, and Cata and six other teen patients are plunged into a shared dream world with no memory of how they got there. Even worse, they come to the chilling realization that they are trapped in a place where their worst nightmares have come to life. Hunted by creatures from their darkest imaginations and tormented by secrets they’d rather keep buried, Cata and the others will be forced to band together to face their biggest fears. And if they can’t find a way to defeat their dreams, they will never wake up.
So… I hard a real hard time with this book. I have had it on my TBR list for a long, long time, and I am just now getting around to reading it. I have a lot of issues with this book. First, if you are interested in reading a book in which you NEVER get emotionally invested with any of the characters (aside from the poor tiger RIP), then this is the book for you. A good portion of the time it felt as though the author was purposefully writing all of the characters to be unlikeable, which is sometimes the end goal but I don’t think that was the case with this book. I think she was trying very hard to through readers off of the end twist by making all the characters unlikeable and not pointing out one specific character, but it did not work for me. I’m not going to go into detail about each of the characters because it would be repetitive (sort of like the book!). But I do have to say Remi was purposefully made to be EXTREMELY unlikeable, and I am not here for it.
So, now the story! I felt pretty bored with most of the story, to be honest with you. When I first read the synopsis, I was super excited for this story. I felt like it might have been better if they were purposefully stuck in the dream fall but what can you do. I felt like a lot of the dreams were repetitive, and I almost skipped through some of the book to get to the point. I did enjoy the parts “outside” of the dream fall, with Jamie as our narrator.
Ok so I was going to originally give this book 2 stars, but I felt that was a little harsh so I am changing it mid-review to 3 stars. I do like the twist at the end. I also liked the backstories for some of the characters. I did not appreciate the cliffhanger at first, but now that I know it has a second book, I liked that too. I will probably read book #2 to see what happens.
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