Dreamers Often Lie | 
so-soArghtjkd&ke#$@*(. And that‘s how I feel about this book. It gets three stars because I was very interested to see where this book was going to go. It doesn‘t get more because it didn‘t actually go anywhere, even to the very end I was left with thinking someone must have torn out the last pages. This can‘t possibly be the end. It doesn‘t get more because of the illogical and circuitous route the book takes. I am left...unsatisfied.
pickThis book was super trippy and darker than I was expecting but very very good. Like Saving Hamlet, it combines Shakespeare with high school drama (of both the theatre and personal kind). This one is more intense, and the emotions are very raw, but I couldn't put it down. The literary implications of Jaye's hallucinations are FASCINATING.
pickHS junior Jaye has issues: 1) dead father 2) childhood BFF is back, interested in her AND cast as Oberon to her Titania; 3) Midsummer Night's Dream rehearsals require her full attention; and 4) a skull fracture. Now she is plagued by headaches & visions of Shakespeare, Hamlet, Ophelia, Romeo. Then there's new kid Rob, who looks just like Romeo. What's real? What's not? Great premise + good execution = 👍🏼😎
Ambiguous/confusing ending = 🤔😐
The narrator ponders how her experience of her dad has been invalidated by the way people idealize those who have died. It's the dark side of the all too common saying "don't speak ill of the dead."
Wishing I could stay home and 😴 and read. It's hard being a responsible adult! (Insert whine here).
It's Ophelia! With a bouquet of tongue depressors! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
Sold! The protagonist is talking to Hamlet, whose voice is "low and polite"!
@TheBookmarkPR awaiting the premiere of the Miss Peregrine movie, when I found this YA novel with an intriguing premise: after a skiing accident leaves her with a fractured skull, Jaye is having hallucinations --of Shakespearean characters! Who can resist?!? #epigraph
Shakespeare lovers will want to read this one! Titus is modeling a great book cover today.
pickYA Audio this was an interesting concept that ended with a big well now what. If you are looking for a tidy story this is not it. I was frustrated that it ended up making no sense and I wouldn't have minded had it all been a delusion of the dying because maybe that was what it was.
pickWhat a mindf*ck! A vivid, imaginative portrayal of how chillingly easy it is for a teenage girl to be convinced of her worthlessness/uselessness/etc. by those around her, and the consequences that result. ★★★★☆.
CURRENTLY READING | Gonna dive off the deep end into WEIRD with this one — the Shakespearean kind. Can't wait!!
panIt's not fantastic when I end up enjoying the hallucinations a lot more than the humans. Everybody feels in some way to either be clueless or painfully self absorbed. The ending is also rushed; I was so close to the end and there were still way too many unanswered questions.
This came in the mail yesterday- read the synopsis... fantasy/romance/shakespeare inspired. Like the MC, I took some shakespeare courses , as well as drama in HS & college. I have a feeling I'm going to love it!!
