Not my favorite Nina George. It started out quite slow and I had a difficult time being drawn in to the story But then BAM! There I was. This is not a story of entirely happy endings. That does not mean it is not worth reading.

The storyline was a very interesting look into the minds of someone in a coma. It made the fact that Sam was a synesthete secondary to the story.

At times, it was difficult to read Henri's narratives. Not because of the writing, but of the thought of the horrors that someone in a coma who can't communicate might be feeling. I am guessing that we still do not know what a person in a coma is feeling, seeing, or understanding.

Book of Dreams explores connections that reach beyond the conscious level. and how what we sometimes think is inference is a connection with the those in the "other" world. And if we just allow ourselves to receive those inputs.

epigraph: "Maybe our lives are nothing but stories that are being read by other people."

"That's the magic of literature. We read a story, and something happens. We don't know what or why, nor which sentence was responsible, but the world has changed and will never be the same again. Sometimes it takes us several years to realize that a book tore a whole in reality through which we could escape from the pettiness and despondency of our surroundings."

From the authors notes at the end of book: "The Book of Dreams completes my cycle of novels about mortality. I needed to write about fear and transience and to portray the points where life and death meet as a sort of fairy-tale place brimming with parallel realities, a transitional zone among the worlds, heaven and earth. None of us knows if this zone really exists or if it is born of our thought and hopes and fears"

Wow, I didn't realize this, and it really does sum of, quite heavily this book, but also what she has out there already. I am super excited to see what her next set of books brings us.