Publisher: Amazon Digital Services
Genre: YA Paranormal Romance
My Rating: 1/5
What would you do if you could see other people’s dreams? If you could watch their hidden fantasies and uncover their deepest, darkest secrets…without them ever knowing?
Sara Barnes is about to find out. She thought that all she had to worry about was final exams, Christmas shopping and deciding whether she likes the cute freshman in the next dorm who’s got a crush on her.
But when she starts seeing dreams that aren’t hers, she learns more than she ever wanted to know about her friends, her classmates…and a strange, terrifying man whose dreams could get Sara killed.
Why is it that stories about dreams have been disappointing lately? It's such a great idea of a story and yet, few books that I've read did not managed to execute the story well. Dream Student are one of those books.
What would you do if you could see other people’s dreams? If you could watch their hidden fantasies and uncover their deepest, darkest secrets…without them ever knowing?
Now, with that kind of intriguing sounding blurb, I was expecting more excitement, scandals, or some skeletons in the closet. Instead, there were silly, dull and trifling fantasies. Nothing that I could chew my bone with.
The story started with a slow pace and continue being so for the majority of the book. I had to skimmed a few parts that I have completely no interests over. My skimming did not, whatsoever, affected the story. It just goes to show how very little things went on in a large number of pages.
The story was dragging and was filled with a lot of insignificant information.
There were more mentions of class schedules and final exams rather than the most important issue we are supposed to deal with like, uh, I don't know, the fact that there is a murderous guy on the loose? The enormity of Sara's dreams seems to have taken a backseat.
There were more mentions of class schedules and final exams rather than the most important issue we are supposed to deal with like, uh, I don't know, the fact that there is a murderous guy on the loose? The enormity of Sara's dreams seems to have taken a backseat.
Now, the idea of being able to access everybody else's dreams is an exciting idea and intriguing in its technicalities. I was excited to see how the dreams affected Sara's life and how she will handle the issues that comes with such ability. Instead of getting into all of that though, the story focus more on Sara's relationship with Brian rather than the dreams. Their relationship was unrealistic and completely overblown. What is worst, their relationship started off as an insta-love! It was so funny to think that Sara dreamt of Brian and when she met and recognized him at the party, they somehow "clicked" and fell in love at first sight. *sigh
It was so annoying to read about them.
The book was tedious for the most part. The only thing that made me continue reading was the dreams. There were enough bits of information that tethered me to the story. Even so, the dreams weren't that much of an interesting factor for me to continue reading Book Two.
I was provided a free copy of this book in an exchange for an honest review.
