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Synopsis:
Her eyes saved his life.
Her dreams released his darkness.
After four years of sleeplessness, high school junior Parker Chipp can't take much more. Every night, instead of sleeping, he enters the dreams of the last person he's made eye contact with. If he doesn't sleep soon, Parker will die.
Then he meets Mia. Her dreams, calm and beautifully uncomplicated, allow him blissful rest that is utterly addictive. But what starts out as a chance meeting turns into an obsession; Parker's furious desire for what he needs pushes him to extremes he never thought he'd go. And when someone begins to terrorizing Mia with twisted death threats, Parker's memory blackouts leave him doubting his own innocence.
I thought that this book was interesting because Parker's ability to experience other peoples' dreams is the very thing that is killing him. Think about how much power you could have being able to do that. He is able to see memories, fears, etc. and he could use that to his advantage. I believe that is why I enjoyed the fact that Parker was so vulnerable. He is dying and doesn't know what is going on with his own mind throughout the book. He is missing periods of time and feels as if he is going crazy. I think that this gives the book a good balance of power so to speak.
I appreciated the author's writing style because I think that it aided me as the reader to understand the motives behind Parker's actions. He was so desperate to save himself that he became someone that he didn't recognize. Parker's emotions leapt off the page as did the emotions of others. I'm not sure that I loved who ended up being the one that was stalking Mia. It made sense but something about it didn't feel right to me... Maybe it was too obvious or I didn't like the reasoning behind the stalking. I can't quite put my finger on the exact reason why. The book was still really good and I'm intrigued by it enough that I may read the next one in the series.
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