Bryn Reyes is a real life sleeping beauty. Afflicted with Klein-Levin Syndrome, she suffers episodes of prolonged sleep that steal weeks, and sometimes even months, from her life. But unlike most KLS patients, she doesn’t spend each episode in a catatonic state or wake up with no recollection of the time she’s missed. Instead, Bryn spends half her life in an alternate reality made up of her … memories. For Bryn, the past is a place, until one day a boy she’s never met before washes up on the illusory beach of her dreams with no memory of who he is.
But the appearance of this strange boy isn’t the only thing that’s changed. Bryn’s symptoms are worsening, her body weakening as she’s plagued by hallucinations even while awake. Her only hope of finding a cure is to undergo experimental treatment created by a German specialist. But when Dr. Banz reveals that he knows more about her strange symptoms than he originally let on, Bryn learns that the boy in her head might actually be the key to understanding what’s happening to her, and worse, that if she doesn’t find out his identity before it’s too late, they both may not survive.
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Hated it. Terrible ending in top of a story that essentially went nowhere.
I didn’t like this book from the first chapter. Very boring.
I found this book through BookBub. I downloaded it. It was alright. I personally didn’t like it. Definitely strong language, I wouldn’t read if you’re sensitive to that kind of thing. Otherwise, very creative storyline. I had never heard of Klein-Levin Syndrome until I read this. Also,it ends on a massive cliff hanger, so make sure you have the second book on hand when you read this one.
Enjoyable read. A little slow at times, but creative concept. Worth the time.
The ending did not hardly address any of the plot lines.
Terrible cliff hanger
I loved this book!
It was really cool how they transfered between the world’s the girl was in and how her teenage life when she was not sleeping was very relatable.
This book is like a bad 90s coming of age television series.
This was…different. I finished it because I wanted to know what the hell was going on but it was not answered in this and it is an extreme cliffhanger.
I got the first one, The Girl In Between, as a freebie, but ended up buying the next 3 so I could find out how the story ends! I didn’t want to go to work b/c this was such a well done series! Loved it!
The writing style was very hard to get through, but the story line kept me intrigued. It seemed to miss some major points traversing through the story that would have made this book a 5 star read.
Please allow me to start by saying, OH MY! Sadly, I do not mean that in a good way. This book has so much potential. On some parts, it is pretty good, but then on the rest, it is difficult to read and understand. The author tries to add these…poetic (?) parts. The ideas jump around, and there are moving objects within.
Let me back up to what this book is about, because as I said, it is a really cool idea. This girl is diagnosed with a disease that makes you sleep randomly and for an unknown amount of time. When the main character, Bryn, is in this state she becomes a zombie-like person to those around her. She can still eat and drink, but she is unresponsive. When she is in this state, in her mind she is in this…alternate world that consists of places she has been in her life. In that world, she is the only person there, until this boy washes ashore. Now she needs to figure out why and what is really wrong with her.
How is that not interesting!? It is incredibly captivating all on its own, but then you get details and bits thrown at you at random. Oh and back to the poetic (I do not know how else to describe it) parts. Here is an example: “I liked to make things with just my hands- calloused fingers, heat from my palms, the sharp corner of my thumbnail.” That is the whole sentence. I would like to know who read that line and thought, “Yup, that makes sense.”
Oh! I cannot forget to mention the amount of fragment sentences this book contains. For Example: “He wasn’t the sentimental type. The desperate, divulging type.” What about the desperate divulging type? Was he that? Or is she listing other types that the guy is not?
There are also inconsistencies. For example in one chapter Bryn is complaining about the nurse she got because the nurse is bad at drawing blood and then a chapter later Bryn is saying that she has had so much blood drawn that she does not even feel the needle anymore. Just so you know, it had only been at most one weeks since the blood was drawn and she had not gotten more since that day. There were others like this one throughout the book and throughout the characters personalities.
Overall, I am disappointed. I was really looking forward to a new and interesting book. Right now the book is free on Kindle so give it a shot if you want. As for me, I am done with this series. Such a bummer.
Ending is good but leaves you with some questions.
I’m not really picky generally when I read books but I wasn’t a fan of this one. Normally I always finish a book I start even if I don’t care for it but I have found this book particularly hard to finish.
I loved this book! The story was great and I fell in love with the characters. I enjoyed everything except for the swearing. There was no need for the f-word to be in the story and especially not that many times. It made those parts jerky and hard to read. Without the swearing I would recommend this book to everyone, but not as it is.
This was a good book once I finished it. There were several times that I thought I wouldn’t pick it up again.
It was a S L O W developing story.
The author has a good imagination. The story is replete with teen-age angst. Foul language doesn’t really contribute to the story line. Somewhat plodding.
I was hooked…I am fascinated by out of body, other dimension realities…these kids had a connection that was out of reality; I loved that our heroine persevered and discovered the reality of her connection.
I liked the plot idea of the sleeping beauty and how she learned not to be used by the young man who dumped her when she was sleeping for someone else, tried to use her when awake and then the idea that when sleeping she contacted someone in a coma. The description of the disease and how it affects one’s family was also very good. It ended too soon. I did not like the book enough to get the subequent books in the series.