A review by anomalyreads
Sleepless by Terri Clark
2.0
2.5/5
Sleepless had a very cool premise to it. Trinity can basically "dream hop" and see the darkest most personal parts of people's lives. This leads her to seeing her friend, Kiri, getting killed by Rafe. The whole book revolves around Rafe and what happens after he is convicted of killing Kiri.
While the concept of the book was unique, the execution was poor. I never truly got a grasp of how Trinity's "powers" worked and what brought them on in the first place. The author touched on in a bit, but since it is what the whole book is surrounded by, I think it should have been explained more. Like knowing how Trinity happened to have dreamed of Kiri the night she was killed. Along with that, I wish we knew more about Kiri and got a flashback of Kiri and Trinity.
Then there was Dan. I liked him as a character, but again, he was just underdeveloped. He seems to show up out of nowhere and have this deep interest in Trinity. And of course, Dan and Trinity's relationship. It evolves so quickly and is way too insta-lovey for my taste. I usually don't mind that, but in this case, it felt like they were just brought together by Rafe. Besides that, they didn't have a great connection.
I also did not enjoy how the author completely jumped over parts and left it up to the reader to decipher what happened. There was one chapter in specific that started and it talks about this huge development between Trinity and Dan. It wasn't talked about in the previous chapter though, so I had to go back and double check to make sure I didn't accidentally skip over something.
Overall, I think this book had great potential but just needed to be executed better. I actually think it would benefit a lot by being longer and having more detail. Cool concept though!
Sleepless had a very cool premise to it. Trinity can basically "dream hop" and see the darkest most personal parts of people's lives. This leads her to seeing her friend, Kiri, getting killed by Rafe. The whole book revolves around Rafe and what happens after he is convicted of killing Kiri.
While the concept of the book was unique, the execution was poor. I never truly got a grasp of how Trinity's "powers" worked and what brought them on in the first place. The author touched on in a bit, but since it is what the whole book is surrounded by, I think it should have been explained more. Like knowing how Trinity happened to have dreamed of Kiri the night she was killed. Along with that, I wish we knew more about Kiri and got a flashback of Kiri and Trinity.
Then there was Dan. I liked him as a character, but again, he was just underdeveloped. He seems to show up out of nowhere and have this deep interest in Trinity. And of course, Dan and Trinity's relationship. It evolves so quickly and is way too insta-lovey for my taste. I usually don't mind that, but in this case, it felt like they were just brought together by Rafe. Besides that, they didn't have a great connection.
I also did not enjoy how the author completely jumped over parts and left it up to the reader to decipher what happened. There was one chapter in specific that started and it talks about this huge development between Trinity and Dan. It wasn't talked about in the previous chapter though, so I had to go back and double check to make sure I didn't accidentally skip over something.
Overall, I think this book had great potential but just needed to be executed better. I actually think it would benefit a lot by being longer and having more detail. Cool concept though!