published: 2019
pages: 304
read: 1/27-29/19
rating: .....it had potential but it fell short for me. or maybe, this just aint my genre.
book: 10 in 2019
Those affected by the illness, doctors discover, are displaying unusual levels of brain activity, higher than has ever been recorded before. They are dreaming heightened dreams—but of what?
MY THOUGHTS
SHORT (and not all confusing) VERSIONyea but maybe not the ending. i feel like it had potential but it was a no for me, dawg...just the ending anyway.
LONG (and what am i even talking about!) VERSION
i mean, look at that cover!!!!ehm, i took a crappy picture but i loved the cover a lot. that's honestly one of the main reasons i wanted to read this book. that and the synopsis. it sounds pretty intriguing. THAT and EVERYONE was raving about it on IG (maybe one day I'll learn my lesson).
first and foremost, i feel for Mei. i think of everything that happened in this story, i feel the most for Mei. she was misunderstood (?) by friends, family and even her classmates. in the all-ness of this story, i feel the most for her and i was really sad about her overall role in this story vs everyone else's. mostly cause i feel that for her, it was wrong place right time. had she gone to any other school, well....
this story is told weirdly.
first its just a narrator telling you the story as its happening and as its going to be in the future. then its told by the characters and their point of views.
it kind of works out and i think that made the book flow a bit better for me.
BUT....it left a lot of unanswered questions.
more than enough to justify the ending we get. i feel like the ending was....rushed? not rushed but maybe not well thought out?
like,
here's the story - - - - - drama - - - - - hella questions - - - - the end - - - - (all these questions floating in space).
not well thought out sounds bad and i'm not trying to make it sound like that or discredit the author but i feel like it wasn't sealed up to its full potential.
-what caused it to begin with? (i can actually live with the "it just happened" explanation)
-what where they all dreaming?
-was Mei really dreaming about good stuff as shit went down?
-did she sense in a way that Andrew (1000% not sure that's his name but lets say it is) was leaving her behind?
-the couple....would they have made it in general?
-the kids that escape and pass it around somewhere in CA....what happens to them and the people they spread it to? we just know they spread it and that others will suffer but das it.
-does Rebekah really never tell Caleb!??
overall....look, it wasn't bad. i liked it enough. but then again, this goes back to my "i like it because i read the book for free. had i bought it i probably would've not liked it and i would have been pissed" theory.
i feel that this book had a lot of promise but it left waaaaaay too many unanswered questions. too many to justify letting them go and liking the book for just what it gives you.
you get all this UMPH! as shit hits the fan, things start moving and happening and then the end...just ends. there was no nothing to it. it didn't make me feel anything.
this book was compared to Station 11 and i didn't like that book. so maybe its just me and this genre not clicking.
either way, good premise, quick, meh ending.
...BUT!!!!, good cover!
overall...im either way about it. am i glad i read it yea...will i re-read it? probably not. will i think about it from time to time? at this moment i can say that i absolutely will not. but im not at all mad that i read it. and that's a good thing cause i never say that.
anyway, as many spoilers with the wrong names as i can remember below.
thanks!
#lesreads on IG
lets just get this off the bat.
no one ever knows where or how it came. just as quick as it came, the thing left 7-8 weeks later (i could be wrong on the time but that's what i remember) without anyone ever knowing or figuring out what it was or caused it.
Kara goes out to a party comes back to a dorm passes out and never wakes up. she is taken to the hospital where she later passes. when her parents arrive at the dorm to collect her things, Mei doesn't say anything to them but Caleb does.
the dorm floor where Kara lived
all the kids on that floor end up being kept quarantined and eventually get moved to the gym.
a fire breaks out and they make a run for it once they realized the guard is sorta afraid of them.
some of them make a run for it. some get away and spread the disease, some get caught and Mei along with Andrew (that's what im calling him because i forgot his name) manage to run away to the house where Mei used to babysit.
they run around saving people and doing good. eventually Mei falls under. she gets in a fight with Andrew and he leaves her, that's when it hits her.
he finds her and takes her to the quarantine in the library. he visits her.
Caleb hooks up with Rebekah. they were both on the same floor.
they sleep together and then she falls ill. he falls ill later on.
she's pregnant.
no one knows for a while.
Caleb wakes up and leaves (and my understanding, he never learns that he is a father).
the little girls & their dad
the dad was always in survival mode so he had a garden going and he had the basement stocked to last for a good while when the moment came that something happened. he is cleaning the dorms where the kids were at. he comes home one night and it hits him. the girls panic, call the police and hide in the forest behind their house until they come get him.
the girls basically live on their own until their father comes back home.
he wakes up randomly on his own and escapes where he was at.
the couple next door to the little girls and the dad.
they had moved there because he moved them there and there was hella resentment on her part (turns out they were on the brink of basically breaking up).
it hits her first and then him. and i think the baby last. Andrew and Mei go from house to house to see if there are people that need help so they go to their house and take the baby to get checked out.
the doctor lady
she comes in from town when this first happens and goes back and forth for a while until they ban her from leaving causing her to live at the hospital.
luckily, she never falls under.
the professor Nathan & Henry
Nathan my understanding is, was under the whole time (?). he was with Henry until Henry fell ill and then had him in a home and in his dream or whatever Henry got better and they got to live together til the end of time.
in reality, Henry was always sick. all of this could be wrong in the sense that idk if it was a dream or what BUT it ends with Nathan & Henry traveling to idk where to both be put under the drug version of whatever the fuck this was so that they can end up together even if its just in dream.
overall, what happens is, when the father of the little girls wakes up, he goes home and starts talking about a fire.
when this was all starting, there was a fire going on but far away.
what he keeps talking about is how someone needs to start a fire to wake everyone up. but he knows he cant talk to anyone because they wont believe him.
so boom....a fire happens. and some people in the library wake up.
Mei can sense whats going on but she's too deep in that she cant wake up.
Andrew was to be the heir to some large mega pharm company but he was against it because of the way it screwed little people over. he had told her that if it came down to anything, he would always save a baby over a grown up because the baby had more chances than an adult....an adult already had time to prove themselves....a baby is just starting off.
.
.
.
so mei senses the fire and she can feel Andrew near her but of course he doesn't save her. (i think she can i dont really remember.)
he saves the couples (the one above) baby.
mei dies in a fire (along with others) because there is no one else to save her.
and das it.
there's still a lot i left out but this time it was more like because i couldn't remember more and honestly, i just want this to be over.
blergh.
the dorm floor where Kara lived
all the kids on that floor end up being kept quarantined and eventually get moved to the gym.
a fire breaks out and they make a run for it once they realized the guard is sorta afraid of them.
some of them make a run for it. some get away and spread the disease, some get caught and Mei along with Andrew (that's what im calling him because i forgot his name) manage to run away to the house where Mei used to babysit.
they run around saving people and doing good. eventually Mei falls under. she gets in a fight with Andrew and he leaves her, that's when it hits her.
he finds her and takes her to the quarantine in the library. he visits her.
Caleb hooks up with Rebekah. they were both on the same floor.
they sleep together and then she falls ill. he falls ill later on.
she's pregnant.
no one knows for a while.
Caleb wakes up and leaves (and my understanding, he never learns that he is a father).
the little girls & their dad
the dad was always in survival mode so he had a garden going and he had the basement stocked to last for a good while when the moment came that something happened. he is cleaning the dorms where the kids were at. he comes home one night and it hits him. the girls panic, call the police and hide in the forest behind their house until they come get him.
the girls basically live on their own until their father comes back home.
he wakes up randomly on his own and escapes where he was at.
the couple next door to the little girls and the dad.
they had moved there because he moved them there and there was hella resentment on her part (turns out they were on the brink of basically breaking up).
it hits her first and then him. and i think the baby last. Andrew and Mei go from house to house to see if there are people that need help so they go to their house and take the baby to get checked out.
the doctor lady
she comes in from town when this first happens and goes back and forth for a while until they ban her from leaving causing her to live at the hospital.
luckily, she never falls under.
the professor Nathan & Henry
Nathan my understanding is, was under the whole time (?). he was with Henry until Henry fell ill and then had him in a home and in his dream or whatever Henry got better and they got to live together til the end of time.
in reality, Henry was always sick. all of this could be wrong in the sense that idk if it was a dream or what BUT it ends with Nathan & Henry traveling to idk where to both be put under the drug version of whatever the fuck this was so that they can end up together even if its just in dream.
overall, what happens is, when the father of the little girls wakes up, he goes home and starts talking about a fire.
when this was all starting, there was a fire going on but far away.
what he keeps talking about is how someone needs to start a fire to wake everyone up. but he knows he cant talk to anyone because they wont believe him.
so boom....a fire happens. and some people in the library wake up.
Mei can sense whats going on but she's too deep in that she cant wake up.
Andrew was to be the heir to some large mega pharm company but he was against it because of the way it screwed little people over. he had told her that if it came down to anything, he would always save a baby over a grown up because the baby had more chances than an adult....an adult already had time to prove themselves....a baby is just starting off.
.
.
.
so mei senses the fire and she can feel Andrew near her but of course he doesn't save her. (i think she can i dont really remember.)
he saves the couples (the one above) baby.
mei dies in a fire (along with others) because there is no one else to save her.
and das it.
there's still a lot i left out but this time it was more like because i couldn't remember more and honestly, i just want this to be over.
blergh.
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