Published by: HarperTeen, April 19th 2014
Genre: YA, Thriller, Paranormal, Mythology
Pages: 340
Format: Paperback
Source: Purchased
The blockbuster film Inception meets Lisa McMann's Wake trilogy in this dark paranormal thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Aprilynne Pike. This novel is also perfect for fans of Kelley Armstrong, Alyson Noel, and Kimberly Derting.
Charlotte Westing has a gift. She is an Oracle and has the ability to tell the future. But it doesn't do her much good. Instead of using their miraculous power, modern-day Oracles are told to fight their visions—to refrain from interfering. And Charlotte knows the price of breaking the rules. She sees it every day in her wheelchair-bound mother and the absence of her father. But when a premonition of a classmate's death is too strong for her to ignore, Charlotte is forced to make an impossible decision: continue following the rules or risk everything—even her sanity—to stop the serial killer who is stalking her town.
Reading this book was an exercise in patience, and if you know me at all, you'll know I have none. 0% patience. I wanted to slap every single character in their annoying face with every chapter I read.
First off I wanna say I liked the thriller aspects of the book, and the Oracle stuff was cool at first, though got really repetitive and I got a little tired with it. But THE CHARACTERS. First we have Charlotte, who meets a super creepy guy a good ten years older than her who says, basically, 'sup, I've been stalking you since you were a kid, and now I'm here to help with this super ominious piece of jewellery you should 100% wear when you sleep.' And she goes, essentially 'k, seems legit.' ????????? That's where I started losing interest. After that she goes on a supernatural quest to save every waif and stray in her town from being murdered (now this may just be me, but I just could not understand why she was so desperate to save a kid she'd spoken to in music class one time.) So my patience with her was at -100.
And then we have the creepy older dude, who I summed up best on Goodreads:
And the dishwater-dull love interest. Who, in any other book, might have been sweet. I'd just lost so much faith in this book by the time he came around.
But with all that said, I did really enjoy certain parts. The serial killer mystery was as thrilling as it promised, even if the killer was a flashing neon sign instead of a plot twist, and 'Shelby' wasn't a glaring shock either. And I did enjoy some Oracle parts. I just got so disillusioned with the characters that I started picking apart the rest of the book.
To sum: A good thriller with an interesting supernatural touch but the characters drove me mad.
First off I wanna say I liked the thriller aspects of the book, and the Oracle stuff was cool at first, though got really repetitive and I got a little tired with it. But THE CHARACTERS. First we have Charlotte, who meets a super creepy guy a good ten years older than her who says, basically, 'sup, I've been stalking you since you were a kid, and now I'm here to help with this super ominious piece of jewellery you should 100% wear when you sleep.' And she goes, essentially 'k, seems legit.' ????????? That's where I started losing interest. After that she goes on a supernatural quest to save every waif and stray in her town from being murdered (now this may just be me, but I just could not understand why she was so desperate to save a kid she'd spoken to in music class one time.) So my patience with her was at -100.
And then we have the creepy older dude, who I summed up best on Goodreads:
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But with all that said, I did really enjoy certain parts. The serial killer mystery was as thrilling as it promised, even if the killer was a flashing neon sign instead of a plot twist, and 'Shelby' wasn't a glaring shock either. And I did enjoy some Oracle parts. I just got so disillusioned with the characters that I started picking apart the rest of the book.
To sum: A good thriller with an interesting supernatural touch but the characters drove me mad.
Characters ★★☆☆☆
Setting/world building ★★★★☆
Writing ★★★☆☆
To be fair to Sleep No More, my rating would be more like 2.75 but 3 seems too high.
Yup, that is exactly how I felt about it, all the way through, I was thinking, no, it can't be him, it's too obvious that it would be him...and then it was him. (seriously, when it was revealed I wanted to throw my kindle out the window, so would've been worth it.) I just-no. No, no no no no.
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