Sneak a peek "Dreamfall" Duology - Amy Plum

Description

Cata Cordova suffers from such debilitating insomnia that she agreed to take part in an experimental new procedure. She thought things couldn’t get any worse...but she was terribly wrong.

Soon after the experiment begins, there’s a malfunction with the lab equipment, and Cata and six other teen patients are plunged into a shared dreamworld with no memory of how they got there. Even worse, they come to the chilling realization that they are trapped in a place where their worst nightmares have come to life. Hunted by creatures from their darkest imaginations and tormented by secrets they’d rather keep buried, Cata and the others will be forced to band together to face their biggest fears. And if they can’t find a way to defeat their dreams, they will never wake up.
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Dreamfall by Amy Plum
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I'm not a fan of horror stories, but Dreamfall I actually enjoyed.
It was not so much the writing, or the nightmares, which were not very authentic, but for the idea of seven teenagers being linked by their insomnia and traumas and forced to break the bond an experiment gone wrong entrapped them into.
It's a book about trying to defeat your demons, but finding yourself fighting for reality in another's nightmare.

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Description

For most people, nightmares always come to an end. But for Cata, Ant, and the others, there may be no escape from theirs. After an experimental treatment meant to cure their insomnia went horribly wrong, the teens were dragged into a shared dreamworld where their most terrifying fears became reality.

The six of them have no way of waking up. And they’re beginning to realize that if they die here, they might actually die in the real world. One of the dreamers is already gone, and anyone could be next. The only thing they know for certain is that they have to work together to survive. But as they learn the truth about one another’s pasts, they soon discover they are trapped with something far worse than their nightmares….
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  Neverwake by Amy Plum
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Horror show! Or maybe not so much. If Dreamfall was a single book I would have been satisfied. But…book two kind of jinxed it. It was frustratingly nightmares abundant or stretched to nightmares infinity and becoming somewhat boring. If in book one the horrors the characters were exposed to made for an entertaining action, in book two it feels repetitive. The plot brings new intriguing turnovers and some characters die but their sleeping state just won’t end. The psychopath among them is predictable, his crimes clearly crazy but still makes for an unsatisfying plot. And the doctors… I perceived them as hypocrite assholes, maybe Jaime saves the team a little, with his air of grandeur. The end may be redeeming, the characters finally facing and defeating their horrors and making for a good life, but personally I longed for their reawakening a little sooner. Anyway, it wasn’t a bad duo, the idea was intriguing, it just didn’t knock me off.

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