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Mar 02, 2018PimaLib_ChristineR rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
On plot: this novel started slowly, with a lot of backstory about how Liv and her family have never settled down, moving nearly every year with her mother and sister, to showing up in London to find that their apartment didn't work out and they will be moving in with her mother's boyfriend and two children. Honestly, most of this made absolutely no difference to the characterization or the plot. Liv is fun as a narrator, especially once the story gets going. The plot centers around the device that she, like several boys from school, has found a way out of her dream and into others' dreams. This is a unique twist, but one that is never adequately explained. Liv herself decides there's a reason behind it that we just don't know yet, but her questions, like, why doesn't everyone find their way into the dream corridor, is never adequately discussed. Gier does a nice job of building paranoia and suspense as the line between dream and reality becomes blurred and who is a friend, and who is lying becomes more and more difficult for Liv to determine. If you've got a large dollop of the ability to suspend disbelief, you may enjoy this book. It's worth getting through to get to the next in the series, which reverses direction and dumps the reader straight into the action.