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Sleepwalk Society
by
Kendare Blake (Goodreads Author)
This is the story of the last summer of total freedom for three best friends as seen through the eyes of one of them, Violet Monroe. It is a story that deals with change and choice. In the background looms the impact of the 9/11 attack on the United States. The year is 2002. Violet believes she and her pals, Terran Ingram and Joey Fielding, will spend the summer smoking do...more
Paperback, 164 pages
Published
July 1st 2010
by Pra Publishing
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Violet is a girl who doesn t see her own beauty. She refers to her name is "a joke, a plain girl having a name that s also a color. Violet says, One of my boyfriends in high school said that the only color on my face was in my eyes, and that was the color of a faded dollar bill. He also said they d be good looking if only they could express something. The year is 2002 and 18-year-old Violet is beginning summer break from college classes, a summer that will bring unexpected conflicts and discover...more
Having previously read Anna Dressed in Blood and Girl of Nightmares, Sleepwalk Society took me by surprise - in a good way! I found the Anna tales to be brilliant ghost stories and was intrigued by the premise of this novel - so different from Anna. I believe Sleepwalk Society (and Anna!) really showcase Blake's writing talent. Blake has created very real characters in Violet, Terran, and Joey - as well as Violet and Terran's parents! I too was in high school during 9/11 and could strongly ident...more
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This book was completely different from Kendare's other book called "Anna Dressed in Blood" which was also excellent. This book mainly revolves around a young college student named Violet and her seemingly endless search to figure what her path in life will be. She is not alone as her best friends Joey and Terran also college students also go home after their freshman year. I don't want to give away too much except to say that their are alot of plot twists and unexpected turns in this book and t...more
I am ashamed to say this, but had Kendare not sent me her book, I probably wouldn't have read it; which is sad because it's a great book. I found myself putting down, books I have been crazy for, to finish Sleepwalk Society. Kendare does an amazing job creating this completely believable story and characters.
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Sleepwalk Society takes place mostly in Violets head; it's the summer after 9-11 and she is home from her first y...more
You can read the rest of my review at
http://www.pageturnersblog.com/2010/1...
Sleepwalk Society takes place mostly in Violets head; it's the summer after 9-11 and she is home from her first y...more
I guess that I am in the minority here, but this book was one long, rambling rant brought on by too much drugs and over thinking. There was no plot other than Violet trying to figure out who she was. The whole thing was baffling, yet sometimes very thought provoking. The most profound point Violet made was how the American dream sucked her Father dry and he will never be satisfied with what he has achieved because he will always want more and in the meantime has neglected and ignored his wife wh...more
Sleepwalk Society by Kendare Blake was an extremely refreshing read. Blake was able to accomplish, in her debut novel, what many other, more experienced, writers are unable to - she created completely believable world and story. I cannot tell you how much I appreciate that she was courageous enough to write a book about young adults that teenagers could really connect with. Often times I feel that writers don't give teenagers enough credit and they produce watered down versions of reality. The w...more
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I am ashamed to say this, but had Kendare not sent me her book, I probably wouldn't have read it; which is sad because it's a great book. I found myself putting down, books I have been crazy for, to finish Sleepwalk Society. Kendare does an amazing job creating this completely believable story and characters.
You can read the rest of my review at
http://www.pageturnersblog.com/2010/10/s...
I am ashamed to say this, but had Kendare not sent me her book, I probably wouldn't have read it; which is sad because it's a great book. I found myself putting down, books I have been crazy for, to finish Sleepwalk Society. Kendare does an amazing job creating this completely believable story and characters.
You can read the rest of my review at
http://www.pageturnersblog.com/2010/10/s...
We FINALLY got Sleepwalk Society into our library and I took it home for the weekend. This is the 2nd book I've read this year where I really ended up not liking the characters, but the writing was so good, that I can read through my dislike. This takes me back to (not so long ago) when I was in college and couldn't really see me doing anything beyond what I was doing. It seemed wierd when I was student teaching, then when I had a job, got married, and have a kid. The last 10 years have been fu...more
I enjoyed this book to a point and the characters were well developed. To be fair, I don't think I am a part of its intended youth audience. I had a hard time being invested in a plot where one of the central conflicts was that the protagonist clashed with her father because he insisted she commit to a major in college. I guess I'm at a point in life where I recognize that majors, like careers, are easily changed and eventually have little bearing on the rest of your life.
I did enjoy the relatio...more
I did enjoy the relatio...more
Well developed personalities that the reader cares about. A more sophisticated look at young adults.
People would usually think this kind of book is scary but it's not
ABSOLUTELY STUNNING! (:
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I tire of writing these things in the third person. So. I write fiction, apparently mostly YA. I didn't know this, but like Stephen King says, writers are the last ones to know what it is they've written. My first novel,Sleepwalk Society is a college story. I guess it falls into that no man's land they call, "New Adult". Anna Dressed in Blood and Girl of Nightmares are teen horror. My short fictio...more
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“And it's beyond my energy to explain why I don't think that four-letter word that everyone's so obsessed over and that gets everyone into so much trouble and pretty much makes everyone behave like an ass can live in a place like this. Somewhere during dry cleaning, details, and missed meals, it flakes away and what you're left with is married people with a tolerable affinity for each other. That little four-letter word can exist only in poetry, or movies of 2 to 3 hours in length. Maybe in a mini-series.
This place of dull details and irksome obligations is a home only to other four-letter words, which are used much more frequently.”
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This place of dull details and irksome obligations is a home only to other four-letter words, which are used much more frequently.”
