I’ve received this book as an ARC in exchange of my honest review
Dream is the second book from “The Walking Sleep” by Lucy Adler and picks right where the Sleeper ended. The “Dream” takes us on Daria’s journey of self-discovery about her new powers and what she is capable of.
The book is revealing a lot of deep secrets from over 15 years ago – right at the beginning! – who, when, and why Sendrax was created and how the Sleepers were treated back then. Including facilities where sleepers were brought to ease their pain (another word for murdering innocent people, just because Sendrax wasn’t working for them). But also people who were supporting the Sleepers and trying to be near them without being against the system and out of radar.
This book definitely has more dark and deep tones than the first one, we’re understanding more on why Sleepers are trying to be against the system (besides the fact there’s nothing wrong with them) to the point of what Darkness does and how powerful it is. The book reveals more information about Darkness but not enough to disclose everything about it, which makes the book even more interesting keeping you hooked to turn on the page.
The book reveals a lot of new information about everything, what the association is that helps the Sleepers, how the system works and how broken the system is, making people, (forcing people) to function with Sendrax so they can be productive 100% and sleep only 45 minutes per night – but as usual, things don’t stop there, they want to eradicate the sleep completely!
Even tho the book contains more dark and deep tones there’s nothing triggering going on, it has very little romance (first kiss, hug, butterflies type of romance). Considering this was my second dystopian fantasy YA book it gave me some weird vibes, mostly because the future in this book is pretty close to our times, the year 2037 isn’t that far away! The book ended with a cliffhanger which makes me remain hooked to follow the series. This book has been a normal pace book, very easy to be read, and such a different type of book from the ones that I’ve read.
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“Dream” the second book in “The Waking Sleep” series by Lucy Adler continues the story of sixteen old Daria Grayson (Dashy), who lives in a near future dystopian world, that have won the fight against the need of sleep with the invention of Sendrax. The use of the drug enables the population to be constantly productive with only 45 minutes sleep-time per night. However Dashy is one of the very few in which the drug has an effect, which eventually got her committed to the Caxton-Meyers Institute, an institution specialized on “fixing” individuals with immunity to Sendrax. It seems like a very good idea at the moment (they even have chocolate ).
While at the Institute, Dashy would find some unexpected truths about the society and the role she is supposed to fulfill. As the plot progresses the hidden principles of such society and its purposes resurface, with unexpected twist and turns.
A very interesting dystopian story, that throws some elements of YA Academy and teenager-angst tropes in the mix. Well-written, fast-paced without being rushed and easy to read, the book questions some of the values and expectation of modern society under the mantle of entertaining YA fantasy.
I’ve received this book as an ARC in exchange of my honest review
Dream is the second book from “The Walking Sleep” by Lucy Adler and picks right where the Sleeper ended. The “Dream” takes us on Daria’s journey of self-discovery about her new powers and what she is capable of.
The book is revealing a lot of deep secrets from over 15 years ago – right at the beginning! – who, when, and why Sendrax was created and how the Sleepers were treated back then. Including facilities where sleepers were brought to ease their pain (another word for murdering innocent people, just because Sendrax wasn’t working for them). But also people who were supporting the Sleepers and trying to be near them without being against the system and out of radar.
This book definitely has more dark and deep tones than the first one, we’re understanding more on why Sleepers are trying to be against the system (besides the fact there’s nothing wrong with them) to the point of what Darkness does and how powerful it is. The book reveals more information about Darkness but not enough to disclose everything about it, which makes the book even more interesting keeping you hooked to turn on the page.
The book reveals a lot of new information about everything, what the association is that helps the Sleepers, how the system works and how broken the system is, making people, (forcing people) to function with Sendrax so they can be productive 100% and sleep only 45 minutes per night – but as usual, things don’t stop there, they want to eradicate the sleep completely!
Even tho the book contains more dark and deep tones there’s nothing triggering going on, it has very little romance (first kiss, hug, butterflies type of romance). Considering this was my second dystopian fantasy YA book it gave me some weird vibes, mostly because the future in this book is pretty close to our times, the year 2037 isn’t that far away! The book ended with a cliffhanger which makes me remain hooked to follow the series. This book has been a normal pace book, very easy to be read, and such a different type of book from the ones that I’ve read.
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“Dream” the second book in “The Waking Sleep” series by Lucy Adler continues the story of sixteen old Daria Grayson (Dashy), who lives in a near future dystopian world, that have won the fight against the need of sleep with the invention of Sendrax. The use of the drug enables the population to be constantly productive with only 45 minutes sleep-time per night. However Dashy is one of the very few in which the drug has an effect, which eventually got her committed to the Caxton-Meyers Institute, an institution specialized on “fixing” individuals with immunity to Sendrax. It seems like a very good idea at the moment (they even have chocolate ).
While at the Institute, Dashy would find some unexpected truths about the society and the role she is supposed to fulfill. As the plot progresses the hidden principles of such society and its purposes resurface, with unexpected twist and turns.
A very interesting dystopian story, that throws some elements of YA Academy and teenager-angst tropes in the mix. Well-written, fast-paced without being rushed and easy to read, the book questions some of the values and expectation of modern society under the mantle of entertaining YA fantasy.