2.5 stars It kept me turning the pages cause I wanted to find out how the kids would get out of the dream world, but the end was kind of disappointing. There are some things that happen in the end (which I'll discuss in a spoiler section below), that I just don't think would have happened. It wasn't realistic for the story or the characters. Unfortunately, this part kind of ruined the end for me, cause it was so unrealistic it took me out of the story. If it was done better, I might have liked it a bit more. I would have liked to see how the characters adjusted to being back in the outside world instead we're just told what happens to them next. Jaime's, the pre-med student, her chapters were still the most interesting to me. I hate that they were so short and wished they could have been longer.



SPOILER ALERT!!!



At the end, since Jaime was kicked out of the lab earlier, she has to trick the 2 leading scientist to get them out of the room for 25 min so she can go in and test her theory to try to wake the kids up. After everything that has happened that day, and the fact that they already lost 3 patients and have no idea what's going on with the others, why on earth would these 2 scientists leave the patients all alone with absolutely NO ONE there to watch/monitor them, to walk 10 min to the other side of the building to answer a text "their boss" sent them? Which, their boss knows the critical condition these patients are in and I doubt he'd ask for both of them to come see him right away. It'd make more sense if one of the scientist went to see their boss and the other one stayed behind to monitor the patients, or if they got a colleague or even a security guard to watch the patients while they responded to their boss' text, but no. We're to believe these two highly educated scientists, thought it was a good idea for both of them to leave the patients completely unattended with no one watching them, for 25 min, even though anyone of them could suddenly go into cardiac arrest and die while their gone, which has already happened with 3 other patients earlier in the series, and that was WHILE someone was monitoring them! WTF?! I get that there needed to be a way for Jaime to get in the room with the patients unattended so she could test out her theory, but there are better ways it could have been done. This is a huge plot hole that should have never existed, where was the editing for this part of the book?
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I love this creepy sequel to Dreamfall! Imagine Freddy Kreuger teaming up with all of your worst nightmares and terrorizing you in a perpetual dream state that you literally get no reprieve from. That would be the perfect synopsis for this book series that follows a group of kids who face their greatest fears, supernatural beings, and killer dreams in a horrifying world that they created in their own minds. Their only chance of survival is a student named Jamie who is working frantically in the real world to wake these kids up before their nightmares take them out for good. ( )