Alex Senter, a sarcastic sign painter by trade, is perpetually drifting in and out of dream states. After a brush with death, her timeline becomes disjointed. She can no longer tell what is real and what is a dream. Alex undergoes a psychic journey to discover the truth, but monstrous entities will do whatever they can to keep her from it.
Yikes. I have been known to hate read books, but I admittedly DNF’d this at 84 pages. I feel bad giving a book I won in a giveaway such a bad review, but I actually could not stand it.
Firstly, be aware that there are many triggers for sexual assault and abuse. For that reason alone, I’d say this book isn’t for me. I hated all of the weird violent scenes where she’s cutting peoples arms off and beating them to death. I hated all of the rape. I hated her one-dimensional friends who allow this delusional, clearly mentally ill woman to believe she is floating between different dimensions. Maybe that is what was happening, since it is a sci-fi novel, but it all came together at the end, I wasn’t making it that far.
Honestly, I’m so tired of violence against women being the main plot point of books. Im so tired of its prominence in movies and literature. Sigh. 0/5 for me.
I appreciate the work this writer has done. I wish that her afterward was the forward to the book. This would tie the themes of her book tighter. Good job overall!
This book reminds me of Dark Matter by Blake Crouch but the time lines get a bit fuzzy in following. I also didnt follow the need for personal pronouns in describing characters though I know its the “woke” thing to do today. I found it a bit confusing…but that is my older generation.
Sci fi is hard to write. Im an author myself having written two non fiction books. Writing is a constant skill to be developed so writing a novel with plot, twists and character development is difficult!
Glad I read this because I feel its also a story of struggle and strength.
This was a genre that i usually dont go for but winning it in a giveaway i had to give it a try. There is some trigger warnings throughout the book for sexual assault for anyone picking it up. I felt like 100 pages went by so fast this couldve easily been a 300 page book and it kept my interested trying to figure out what was going on.