Name: Lucid
ISBN: 9781595145192

Adrienne Stoltz

Ron Bass

Exchanging lives while asleep, Sloane, a straight-A student from a large loving family, and Maggie, a glamorous up-and-coming New York actress, find the boundary between their shared lives increasingly blurred in ways that require them to commit to one reality or risk insanity. A first novel by the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Rain Man.

Lucid

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Wow. This book 
Was so
Confusing.

Plot: 2.5/5
Not that the plot was bad. It’s just we had two different plots that had almost nothing to do with each other and whenever I got into one of them, I was pulled out of it and thrust into the other one. Takes me ten or so pages to get used to that, and the BAM!! Switch back. And this went on without either plot directly affecting the other until the last 20 or 15 percent of the book. Honestly, that is what made this difficult for me to read.
Also, lets just talk about what actually happened. The End, that last 20 or 15 percent, really threw me for loop. It got really trippy and weird.
And then, when we found out the reason for the WHY of this whole book… the reason seemed incomparable to the scope of what the character(s?) created here. 
I mean, I’ve taken psychology. Twice. I watch that show, Brain Games. I know the Human Mind will do some pretty weird stuff to itself. But this seemed just a little out there, if you ask me.

Characters: 3/5
I’m going to talk about the character in two different categories, Sloane’s World and Maggie’s World.
SLOANE’S WORLD:
Sloane: Sloane here is the straight-A student from a small coastal town who also happens to be crazy. I didn’t really like her that much.
Gordy: WHY DIDN’T YOU CHOOSE GORDY, YOU STUPID GIRL???? HE WAS RIGHT THERE! LITERALLY!
Kelly: Best friend.
Lila: Best friend # 2.
Max: Cute little brother who’s not friends with Sloane anymore because she has cooties.
James: WHY??? WHY WOULD YOU CHOOSE THIS GUY????
Amanda: standard popular girl.
Bill: dead friend/boyfriend (view spoiler)[also the one who’s death is apparentl the CAUSE of the EVERYTHING. (hide spoiler)]
MAGGIE’S WOLRD:
Maggie: The Actress from New York. Honestly, I liked her way better than Sloane. I feel like the characters and the back stories in her world were more realistic than the ones in Sloane’s world.
Nicole: Maggie’s mom who isn’t around much.
Jade: The cute little sister who parallels Max. Honestly, over the course of the book, I got to Jade better than Max. Because Jade had more face-time than Max.
Emma: The Psychologist. I liked her.
Thomas: Didn’t like him, never really did, even in the beginning when he was nice (view spoiler)[OMG, his one appearance in Sloane’s world: Creepy-tastic dude. (hide spoiler)]
Andrew: Oh, he was so cool! (view spoiler)[Why couldn’t he have been real? (hide spoiler)]

And I’m not even gonna talk about the romance, because was too many of and it was to confusing, but I’ll give it a 3 out of 5 grade, because Maggie and Andrew were pretty sweet.

Overall Grade: 8.5/15
That’s not a really good grade. I think that this book had an interesting premise, but it was executed wrong. It was trying to be all detailed and psychological, but it was far to complicated for me. And keep in mind, I’ve taken Psychology twice (once in high school, once in college)
Although, if I’m being entirely honest, I’m thinking that I might reread this someday. When I’m, like, 36 or older.
Because I know how it ends now and it might not be so frustrating if I read it a second time around, and if I’m older, I think I might be able to understand it better.

(view spoiler)[I feel like we got more face-time, more time to get to know everyone in Maggie’s world, which made them seem more real than Sloane’s and her world to me. not that, while I was reading, I actually felt like one world was more real than the other. This my after-reading, I’ve-had-a-night-to-sleep-on-it reaction. And also, blindsided that Sloane was the real one. (hide spoiler)]

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