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Insomnia by J.R. Johansson
2.0

I learned about this book from a fairly poor review, but the premise was so intriguing I had to give it a shot anyway. The story could be really interesting, Parker spends every night watching others' dreams, getting no rest and slowly wasting away as a result. When he meets a girl whose dreams are so peaceful he can fall asleep in them, he thinks he's saved, until he starts to fear he's been stalking her in his sleep. Unfortunately, Parker was a pretty unpleasant narrator, mostly because I found the way he thought about women to be really skeevy and uncomfortable. The story felt tedious at first, then started to get pretty exciting, but then the resolution fell flat again for me. I think I just found the story kind of hard to believe, so it was difficult to really stay immersed in it. I wouldn't necessarily tell someone to NOT read this book, and I'm still considering reading the sequel, but I wouldn't highly recommend it either.