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As I Close My Eyes (Breaking Fate, #1)
by
Sarah DiCello (Goodreads Author)
When she looks into her own eyes, she sees a ghost.
And when she looks into his eyes, she knows she has seen them before ...
Danielle Grayson is a beautiful, intelligent young woman in present-day Georgia, but when she closes her eyes, she becomes someone else in a different time, one hundred years earlier in fact.
Danielle's other life is as entrancing and romantic as her cu...more
And when she looks into his eyes, she knows she has seen them before ...
Danielle Grayson is a beautiful, intelligent young woman in present-day Georgia, but when she closes her eyes, she becomes someone else in a different time, one hundred years earlier in fact.
Danielle's other life is as entrancing and romantic as her cu...more
Paperback, 278 pages
Published
June 29th 2012
by Taylor Street Publishing, LLC
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Started off a little shaky, but as the book progressed, it got better and better, and by the end, I truly loved almost everything about it. But that ending?! It was insane! Thankfully I have book #2. :)
Review coming soon...
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Read this book in 5 days! Caroline and Dani's characters both sucked me in. Well written, and great story. I thought I would get lost with the flashbacks, but it was very easy to follow.
I got this free from Amazon.
This book was a pleasant surprise. I found Georgia to be enticing. I want to go sail on a boat all day and do nothing but be with friends and a good book. Ok so I added in the book. haha
I enjoyed the dreams that happened in the book. The past grabbed me. The present was better, IMO. I liked the characters more which is odd because I usually enjoy historical fiction better.
I felt the idea behind the book to be creative and I liked how the author wrote and organized he...more
This book was a pleasant surprise. I found Georgia to be enticing. I want to go sail on a boat all day and do nothing but be with friends and a good book. Ok so I added in the book. haha
I enjoyed the dreams that happened in the book. The past grabbed me. The present was better, IMO. I liked the characters more which is odd because I usually enjoy historical fiction better.
I felt the idea behind the book to be creative and I liked how the author wrote and organized he...more
Danielle Grayson is your typical 18 year old college student living in the great southern state of Georgia. Her favorite things are hanging out with her friends on the lake and getting ready to start her second year of college. When an accident at the lake has Danielle remembering a past life, she thinks she may be going crazy. Every time she closes her eyes she travels back in time. In her flashback everyone calls her Caroline. Many of her family are with her also as different people. How is sh...more
This is a really great book! As a teacher, I highly recommend it for use in high school classrooms.
Plot: The book was a bit short, but that's fine: a book ends where it ends. Also, this just means I want more.
The book uses an interesting plot device at the beginning and the same one at the end to trigger a shift in the character. I don't want to give away any spoilers here, but let's say the plot device is one that I have not encountered elsewhere.
Also, the plot is very positive, which I absolu...more
Plot: The book was a bit short, but that's fine: a book ends where it ends. Also, this just means I want more.
The book uses an interesting plot device at the beginning and the same one at the end to trigger a shift in the character. I don't want to give away any spoilers here, but let's say the plot device is one that I have not encountered elsewhere.
Also, the plot is very positive, which I absolu...more
I rarely ever rate a book a one star if I finish it. I'm doing that now for I think the first or second time. I'm not really sure what this books premise was or what actually happened.
So, you know the synopsis of the book from reading that. I'll save you those details.
This book was kind of odd the way it was set up with the past flashbacks. It had a unique idea and I love time travel books so I was really hoping it would have a strong set. I had high hopes for this book and it just fell really...more
So, you know the synopsis of the book from reading that. I'll save you those details.
This book was kind of odd the way it was set up with the past flashbacks. It had a unique idea and I love time travel books so I was really hoping it would have a strong set. I had high hopes for this book and it just fell really...more
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I have to say, this book wasn't really as exciting as I thought it would be. It was okay.
I found it unrealistic. Even though it is a fantasy-ish historical book. But the unrealistic part to me was the romance between Danielle and Ben. I mean, they barely know each other and they're already in love. Also, she's 18 and he's 26 and both of their parents are okay with it. And they've done it. (It isn't really sexual, no...more
I have to say, this book wasn't really as exciting as I thought it would be. It was okay.
I found it unrealistic. Even though it is a fantasy-ish historical book. But the unrealistic part to me was the romance between Danielle and Ben. I mean, they barely know each other and they're already in love. Also, she's 18 and he's 26 and both of their parents are okay with it. And they've done it. (It isn't really sexual, no...more
Danielle. The main character. Young and full of hopes and dreams of her future. Her youthful summer filled with hanging out with her lifelong friends enjoying their company and the bright warm sunshine, until she has an accident...an accident that I thought had life altering consequences. The mystery begins as to why she is having vivid dreams and it starts to unravel as she investigates the potential reasons for them. As she gets closer to solving the mystery, she meets Ben. The two of them at...more
I really liked the reincarnation theme, so I wanted to like this book a lot more than I actually did. The dialogue was kind of cheesy, and the events in the story were implausible. I can't imagine just saying "OK, that's nice" if my eighteen year old daughter told me she was dating a 26 year old man. We would have a talk about that, for sure! I also can't imagine being so out of tune with my daughter that I would miss the fact that she had an accident, a concussion, and was passing out every oth...more
As I Close My Eyes has to be one of the most interesting, thought provoking, and frustrating, books that I have ever had the pleasure of reading. It reached into my mind and brought out feelings that I'd never felt before while reading a book. Just as Danielle’s reality was spinning, so was mine with its own fantastic world of intrigue. As I Close My Eyes is truly an amazing yet frustrating novel, a kick-off to an very interesting new teen series. I can’t wait to see where Sarah goes with this...more
Background: Danielle is an 18 year old girl who is living a normal life in Georgia, attending college and hanging out with the same group of friends she has had since she was young. On the first day of summer she has a nasty fall and gives herself a concussion and then begins having very weird realistic dreams about people in another time period. A few weeks later, on a weekend trip with her best friend, she sees a man that looks oddly familiar but she cannot place him, until she realizes that h...more
Where do I start? Reincarnation dreams aside, I had a hard time swallowing most of this. First of all, a little research wouldn't have gone amiss. After a skiing accident gives her a concusion, Danielle begins having dreams/visions of hereself in 1878 in an alternate life. You need to know more than just what clothing people wore and what buildings were standing at a certain time. Events move at the speed of light. 18 year old Dani meets a man who is 26 and 2 pages later they are pledging undyin...more
I was given this book by the author for an honest review.
Best part of the book: Ok, I read a lot and this story was much different that other "dream" stories. After an accident Danielle began have these "dreams" of her past life. Through all of this "strangeness" she meet Ben. I like Ben! He is helpful to her and she feels comfortable with him. Like she has knows him her whole life. Danielle's life is complex and I really felt sad for her. However, Ben was there for her and help her figure out t...more
Best part of the book: Ok, I read a lot and this story was much different that other "dream" stories. After an accident Danielle began have these "dreams" of her past life. Through all of this "strangeness" she meet Ben. I like Ben! He is helpful to her and she feels comfortable with him. Like she has knows him her whole life. Danielle's life is complex and I really felt sad for her. However, Ben was there for her and help her figure out t...more
One of my very best friends wrote this book. However, I am pretty objective by nature. I have watched this novel evolve from its very start...a dream. And still, I was surprised and intrigued at every new chapter. What a page-turner!! And what a clever concept for a novel! As a frequent visitor to Cape May, I also appreciated the authenticity of the historical and geographical references. The novel's ending is abrupt, but it sets up the sequel, which DiCello is currently writing...so we'll all j...more
Great story! I wished that it was written a little more eloquently. I also wished that the characters, Ben and Dani had more of a puritanical romantic relationship, rather than a steamy, passionate one. Oh, I long for Mr. Darcy! Still an awesome tale of how one's life is wrapped up in dreams, specifically, Dani's life. I was surprised Ben stuck with her, especially all he went through with her, the passing out to name one. No other guy would have stayed in the relationship! Seriously. I don't lo...more
I only thing I have to complain about it has a little slack confusing beginning, which at first makes you think is a cliché kind of writing, and the end. It's not the kind of end I would have liked and it frustrates me when the end can imply a thousand different things and you aren't sure which one it is actually supposed to imply (and maybe you didn't even think about the true original one!).
Otherwise, it's a delightful book, captures you with the story and the present and past of it, and it's...more
Otherwise, it's a delightful book, captures you with the story and the present and past of it, and it's...more
May 03, 2013
Christina (Confessions of a Book Addict)
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3 of 5 stars
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Danielle Grayson, or Dani, is your average college student who spends most of her time with her three best friends. One day they are hanging out on a boat waterskiing and Danielle gets into an accident. She suffers a concussion and from then on, her life is turned upside down. She has a weird "dream" of some sort about a girl, named Caroline, living in the 1800s in Cape May, New Jersey. Except these dreams are starting to feel real for Danielle since the people in the dream are referring to her...more
The book had an intriguing plot,but I didn't "get" the ending. I don't want to give a spoiler and disappoint other readers, but if someone can enlighten me as to what actually happened in the last line, I would be delighted.
The story-line was good and well-written overall. I did feel that the romance was a little hasty - if I were Ben I would be very concerned if a mad girl stalked me, and this lad shows no surprise. Perhaps he is used to be stalked by seemingly demented women.
It was an okay rea...more
The story-line was good and well-written overall. I did feel that the romance was a little hasty - if I were Ben I would be very concerned if a mad girl stalked me, and this lad shows no surprise. Perhaps he is used to be stalked by seemingly demented women.
It was an okay rea...more
This book was bizarre. I really liked the characters and was excited to see how the story would unfold- why she was switching back and forth through time. I was completely engaged in knowing how it would end. Sadly, the ending left me wanting. Based on the title, I can now see the author he the intention of making this a series, so at least I can hope that future stories will answer the many lingering questions. I was disappointed for it to end where it did, but that didn't make what I got any l...more
I have to say I was really disappointed that there really wasn't much originality to this story. I REALLY wanted to like it, I liked the characters and the story line that was it. I felt that the story was dragged on for way too long. There parts where I wanted to just stop reading it. I feel really bad I hate to not give a good review, however, I just couldn't do that with As I Close My Eyes.
The title of this book says that it is "Book #1." I cannot wait for Book #2, which, happily, is being published at the end of this year. Simply put, I really enjoyed this quirky, sweet story about a young woman remembering a past life in her dreams, finding the parallels in her current life, and discovering who she is along the way. Interesting ending...
I was going to give this one a solid '3' until I got to the last 15% of the book. Wth happened there? It completely detours off the path it had been on, and then a big revelation that was seemingly pointless, and then when I read the very last sentence of the book I wanted to throw it across the room.
I loved it!! At first I thought it was kind of boring, but as I read on I couldn't put it down. Got as a free ebook on my Kindle Fire and am happy I did. Can't wait till the sequel comes out. Just hope I can get it as a free ebook also. Just love that Ben went to England to find Dank.
It started off interesting and I liked the idea of it, but for some reason I didn't enjoy it as much as I hoped I would. It has some really good moments but also some moments that leave you asking yourself what happened. I rated this a two out of five.
A random read.
I was entranced by the idea of past lives and how they intersected, but I have to admit, I found her past life much more interesting that her present life.
I hated the ending though. Absolutely hated it. Blah.
I was entranced by the idea of past lives and how they intersected, but I have to admit, I found her past life much more interesting that her present life.
I hated the ending though. Absolutely hated it. Blah.
Actually didn't finish this one. It was a Kindle freebie and I shouldn't download so many freebies! You get what you pay for. The premise sounded good. Maybe if I was 18 years old I would have liked it.
Another one of those that I did not realize was going to be a series. Was looking for an easy read on my kindle and now I need to get the next book to see what happens next!
I really had to force myself to read it all. It started out pretty good but then it got boring.
Excellent book! It was a real page-turner! I could not put it down, and it had an unexpected ending!
Great book - easy read yet intriguing. Sequel (As I Wake) is also great. Can't wait for #3!
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Sarah DiCello lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, two daughters, and two dogs. She graduated from Shippensburg University with a degree in Communications/Journalism. This is her first novel.
The sequel, "As I Wake," is out and waiting for your review.
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