Aprilynne Pike

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 supernatural young adult novel is perfect for fans of Kelley Armstrong, Alyson Noël, Richelle Mead, 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.

Sleep No More

Menna Khaled

The plot of this book is very interesting and it enchants you from the first page itself. 
The writing style and the sequence of the events taking place makes the book hard to put down and to forget. 

Due to my exams it took me 2 months to finish the book *eye roll and a laser shooting glare towards my examiners* 

 
 
however I never needed to go back and reread a few pages to remember what happened. 

The characters are easy to love and sympathize with especially charlotte.
From page one I admired charlotte's personality and shared her sorrow on how constricted she felt especially with the fact that her visions are becoming more vital and a matter of life and death (literally).

The beauty of APRILYNN PIKE's writing style is that it involves you unconsciously in the story and the characters thus as a result you ( the reader ) will fully experience charlotte's character development where she loses the guilt and replaces it with understanding that her guilt was only her mind's defensive method to deal with the pain of what had happened years back. That guilt was also her mind's only reasoning on why she needs to find her inner instinct and conscious and follow the rules the sister's has given put.

Charlotte's mother is a normal realistic mother who has had enough of pain and loss in her life that she is on the verge of freaking out as soon as she comes to know that there is a small possibility she might be losing her daughter as well.

 

Charlotte's aunt, sierra, was very secretive and annoying at the beginning that resulted in me believing most of the weird conspiracies I came out with while reading ( sometimes even on my bed before I sleep when I just need to stop thinking of my studies :P )

 


At the end you come to see her point of view and understand why she did the things she did.
You also come to see that non of your oh so great theories about her are true LOL

This book has a very undetailed, unnoticed love story and that was actually for the first time ever very enjoyable to me as I really loved how APRILYNN PIKE concentrated more on the oracles and their world to maintain the plot line than the romance aspect.

All in all this book is very interesting and appropriate for all ages and all literal tastes.

Until next time, stay kind one another and always read.


Xx Menna Khaled Xx

Sleep No More

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