Review: The Dreamers
The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
The Dreamers by Katherine Thompson Walker
Published by Scribner
Official blurb :
The eagerly awaited new novel from the author of The Age of Miracles.
Imagine a world where sleep could trap you, for days, for weeks, months... A world where you could even die of sleep rather than in your sleep.
Karen Thompson Walker's second novel is the stunning story of a Californian town's epidemic of perpetual sleep.
My opinion:
This is set in a fictional town of Santa Lora in California at the local College. Kara falls asleep but then doesn’t wake and is taken to hospital.....then others at the college start to sleep. The doctors complete tests and scans and can find nothing, only they are asleep and dreaming. Hundreds in the town then do the same and it’s put down to a virus. The hospitals are full, with patients in library’s and community spaces and the military control a quarantine.
Katherine Thompson Walker, writes of those left awake, their struggles in the chaos, as more and more succumb to the sleep.
I felt the characters were well written, especially Mei and Ben...made me weep at times.
This is a tale of the perception of reality, time and dreams, not in a scientific way, but a human feeling. If after experiencing a lifetime in a dream, would you want to wake up to reality and experience that loss?....I wonder!
I would like to thank the Author/the Publishers/NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for a fair and honest review
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My rating: 4 of 5 stars
The Dreamers by Katherine Thompson Walker
Published by Scribner
Official blurb :
The eagerly awaited new novel from the author of The Age of Miracles.
Imagine a world where sleep could trap you, for days, for weeks, months... A world where you could even die of sleep rather than in your sleep.
Karen Thompson Walker's second novel is the stunning story of a Californian town's epidemic of perpetual sleep.
My opinion:
This is set in a fictional town of Santa Lora in California at the local College. Kara falls asleep but then doesn’t wake and is taken to hospital.....then others at the college start to sleep. The doctors complete tests and scans and can find nothing, only they are asleep and dreaming. Hundreds in the town then do the same and it’s put down to a virus. The hospitals are full, with patients in library’s and community spaces and the military control a quarantine.
Katherine Thompson Walker, writes of those left awake, their struggles in the chaos, as more and more succumb to the sleep.
I felt the characters were well written, especially Mei and Ben...made me weep at times.
This is a tale of the perception of reality, time and dreams, not in a scientific way, but a human feeling. If after experiencing a lifetime in a dream, would you want to wake up to reality and experience that loss?....I wonder!
I would like to thank the Author/the Publishers/NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for a fair and honest review
View all my reviews
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