Dreaming Dangerous by Lauren DeStefano, 201 pages. Bloomsbury Book, 2018. $17.
Content: Language: G; Mature Content: G; Violence: PG.
BUYING ADVISORY: EL – NO
AUDIENCE APPEAL: LOW
Twelve-year-old Plum and her three best friends live at
Brassmere Academy. The academy houses a
lot of special children with different powers, but Plum and her friends’ power
is to be in each other’s dreams and to come up with creative ways to survive dangerous
events in their dreams. When the friends
start having unusual dreams and one of the friends goes missing, Plum begins to
question those who are in charge, especially when she has a dream that her
friends don’t share, and Plum thinks might be a memory.
I didn’t mind this book and thought the
overall idea was creative at first, but there are a lot of holes in the plot line. The ending didn’t provide enough answers and
as much as I wanted Plum to figure out what was going on, she never did. I’m unsure how this book got published
because it felt more like an idea, not a complete book. Also the kids’ dreams
are disturbing and involve death and animal attacks.
Reviewer, C. Peterson
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