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Sweet Dreams

Tricia Sullivan

3.25 · Rating details · 185 ratings · 42 reviews

Charlie is a dreamhacker, able to enter your dreams and mould their direction. Forget that recurring nightmare about being naked at an exam - Charlie will step in to your dream, bring you a dressing gown and give you the answers. As far as she knows, she's the only person who can do this. Unfortunately, her power comes with one drawback - Charlie also has narcolepsy, and m ...more

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Sep 24, 2017 Sara rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, young-adult, science-fiction, fantasy, arc

I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This book was trippy. Really trippy.

Following a drug trial that went wrong, Charlie can now 'hack' dreams - meaning she can alter what happens during a dream, and mould them into anything she wants. Normally her clients for these kind of services are dull, and want help getting over a childhood phobia or to quit smoking. Until she meets Mel Tan - a harpist with a serial stalker problem. Only, her stalker is in her dreams. And this s I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This book was trippy. Really trippy.

Following a drug trial that went wrong, Charlie can now 'hack' dreams - meaning she can alter what happens during a dream, and mould them into anything she wants. Normally her clients for these kind of services are dull, and want help getting over a childhood phobia or to quit smoking. Until she meets Mel Tan - a harpist with a serial stalker problem. Only, her stalker is in her dreams. And this stalker does not appreciate Charlie stepping on his turf.

I was first drawn to this novel because of the concept. The idea that sleep, something we naturally see as a comfort, or someplace 'safe' is flipped on its head and becomes the very enemy that must be avoided at all cost. I thought this was a very unique idea, and the author does a great job at creating a very unsettling atmosphere throughout the whole novel. The idea that Charlie also suffers from narcolepsy adds an additional layer of tension, especially as it's normally brought on by stress, as I found myself urging Charlie not to fall asleep.

I really liked the character of Charlie. She desperately wants to be 'normal', and is never perceived as this 'perfect' woman. She has flaws, and she (for the most part) owns them. At times I did find her rather irritatingly naive however. She repeatedly states that she isn't trusting of anyone, yet time and again she lets people into her life (and mind) that you know she shouldn't. Of her friends, I liked O - the cantankerous, rich, anti-brain technology landlady the best. There was something very enigmatic about her character. I loved that in an age of brain telecommunication, she was still using carrier pigeons. I also really liked Roman - one half of the self-titled 'Dream Police', and I appreciated that there was a suitable hint of a love interest rather than full-on romance. I did find however, that a lot of the character development took a backseat in favour of the plot. I would have loved to have had more time with Shandy, Roman etc.

The plot is slow at first, as it tries to establish the futuristic technology and various 'big wig' companies found in the world. There's also a lot time spent trying to explain how dreams 'work', with a lot of detail into R.E.M. and sleep paralysis. While I did appreciate this later on in the novel as the plot progressed, I found it quite difficult to wade through so much information and quite often I ended up very confused as to what all this technology could actually do/was doing to the brain and sleep. I don't mind a world that's well explained, but perhaps this was a case of information overload. A little, well detailed piece of information goes a long way. For most of the novel I was also a little unsure of the time period. It was only from about mid-way through, with a few suitable popular culture references, that I realised this was a near-future London.

As the plot progresses, the story takes on more of a 'noir'-esque murder mystery rather than a sci-fi novel. Charlie somehow becomes embroiled with the 'Dream Police' and begins to investigate a series of 'dream suicides' that appear to be linked to the stalker that haunts Mel's dreams. Although this took me a little by surprise, as I was expecting a sci-fi novel, it was a nice surprise. The second half of the novel is well-paced, and the action is continuous. I will say however, that towards the end the story does take on another level of weird. The dreams become increasingly trippy, and the conclusion left me a little bewildered - although not entirely unsatisfied.

A decent novel, that I have difficulty categorising. I'd welcome a sequel in this world. ...more

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Sep 20, 2017 S.J. Higbee rated it it was amazing

As you can see, this is set in the very near future where virtual reality is being taken into some disturbing areas… I happen to know someone who suffers from narcolepsy – where the sufferer will fall fast asleep anywhere at any time, particularly when stressed. It doesn’t take much imagination to realise that this sleep disorder drives a tank through any attempt to lead a normal life. Charlie’s ability to hack dreams starts after her drugs trial with BigSky, when she also starts to suffer from As you can see, this is set in the very near future where virtual reality is being taken into some disturbing areas… I happen to know someone who suffers from narcolepsy – where the sufferer will fall fast asleep anywhere at any time, particularly when stressed. It doesn’t take much imagination to realise that this sleep disorder drives a tank through any attempt to lead a normal life. Charlie’s ability to hack dreams starts after her drugs trial with BigSky, when she also starts to suffer from narcolepsy, lose her job and a lot of her hair through stress. Unfortunately, due to the small print on the contract she signed when she took part in the trial, she has no recourse to any form of compensation. So she also ends up homeless. However, she is lucky to have a loyal friend in Shandy and find herself living as a companion to a cranky old lady in a wheelchair, known as O, by cooking and cleaning her pigeons for her. O is also very supportive of her new job as a dreamhacker.

I very much enjoyed Charlie’s character. She could so easily have moaned her way through the novel and although she is often depressed and undermined by her misfortunes, she is also feisty, with a nice line in sardonic humour. I also liked her impulsiveness and occasional lapse of judgement – it can be rather wearing to read of a protagonist who invariably takes the sensible option.

As for the crime aspect – it was really creepy to experience the way the Creeper infiltrated Charlie’s dreams and as I hadn’t read the rather chatty blurb, which I’ve tweaked, I hadn’t realised there was a suspicious death. Unravelling the murder mystery was enjoyable with plenty of suspects and though I guessed part of it, I didn’t appreciate the final part of the puzzle. This was a thoroughly enjoyable, engrossing read and recommended for fans of near future whodunits. While I obtained the arc of Sweet Dreams from the publisher via NetGalley, this has in no way influenced my unbiased review.
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Jul 24, 2019 Ştefan Tiron rated it really liked it

Shelves: science-fiction, cyborg-studies, theory-philosophy-fabulation, reviewed-books, theory-fiction

Sweet Dreams by Tricia Sullivan reads almost like secret dream diary of an accidental dream-hacker. I feel I don't do any service with this review to the complexity of what's it like to visit dreams and while reading, to sleep in between and wake-up, almost surging out trough what other beings are dreaming.
Dream-hacker named Charlie is the (im)perfect heroine of this particular moment we live in. It's wonderful to read and feel the fullness of an inner floating world suddenly accessible - yet s Sweet Dreams by Tricia Sullivan reads almost like secret dream diary of an accidental dream-hacker. I feel I don't do any service with this review to the complexity of what's it like to visit dreams and while reading, to sleep in between and wake-up, almost surging out trough what other beings are dreaming.
Dream-hacker named Charlie is the (im)perfect heroine of this particular moment we live in. It's wonderful to read and feel the fullness of an inner floating world suddenly accessible - yet somehow so constructed & so built up. You can access this world via Charlie's dream diaries that start like reports and spread out into a city like architecture.
She's got everything staked against her somehow - she's never in charge of her physiology nor her love life, her waking time is riddled with absences & blanks. She's almost stumbled into her life's mission: staying tuned to nightly visions becose of a burdensome condition a disability of sorts - narcolepsy. Her 'normal' life has been made impossible & also incredibly exciting by this paralysis of the body. What anybody would consider a crippling incapacity - not being able to stay awake, always falling asleep anywhere and wherever: falling back to sleep mostly out of stress during difficult moments.

The very conditions of her employment, entering the sleep of others are just a side-effect of her being part of a chosen test group using nanotech for fixing various neuro - degenerative diseases. At the same time she never chose this.
She feels powerless in front of various events and forces, at the mercy of unknown agencies and people that are always ahead of her, always smarter, always anticipating or always using her abilities for unknown, even criminal purposes. It's refreshing to read about a unique heroine of dream labor - going against all those smug, secure, tech savvy and knowitall prototypes.
Like many of us, she is totally at the mercy of outside forces and technologies that surpass & overpower her. At the whim of her own affliction, her weakness actually becomes a doorway to a new almost too well constructed world - a dream city, flying inside a built dreamscape filled with various pitfalls and opportunities. At some level she's also blocked and paralyzed, but at the same time she's active and she's strong. She slides eluding into people's dreams and experiences their dreams from the inside out. She's employed to give them much sought after nightly peace & and intervene in their dreams when needed.
This almost therapeutic detective activity is out of her immediate control, it happens almost without her knowledge or acquiescence, doubled and complicated by the most devious vested dream murders, interests and corporate takeovers, strategies, battles over patents and outright dream assassination attempts. Augmented Reality meets dream hacking in this totally connected world where one can never go offline, even while sleeping. One is always liable to be mind hacked by a dream bot employed by who knows who that can literally takeover of mind/body and push you to act out the dreams in real life with deadly results.

The very social structure of trust - friends, lovers, protectors seems more dreamlike than ever, and each one by one dissolves into mirage. Even those cherished certainties have a tendency to melt down during Sweet Dreams. It's almost like an onion (mentioned even by the dream hacker herself) where every layer peeled doesn't seem to uncover the final one +there's always the risk that we'll never know for sure or at the end when we know we might be compelled to distrust or deny the outrageous answer.

As usual I feel grateful towards such thinkers/mindwalkers like Tricia Sullivan, going to the bottom end of a premise and follow implications, feeling her way across possibilities so well, doing what SF does best. Large scale yet impossible situations get explored - such an example is the larger role played by an ever expanding elderly population - kept almost as a token for their boomer value. It's good to think this trough SF via enhancements. Diseases or the therapies are just cover ups. Various age related ailments and the dependence during such a general state of mental decreptitude, opens up an aging population towards new if dark possibilities. Instead of placid asylums or babbling conspiracies, elderly populations transform into dangerous pioneers in areas that today seem to actively exclude aged persons.

There's been a new interest in dreaming, dream worlds, going in many directions starting with mapping both the so-called science of sleep at the same time that selling mattresses & curing sleeplessness. Overwork & bad sleeping gets more coverage & pervasive across cultures and countries. Various documentaries exists about dreaming under capitalism. Lucid dreaming looms larger than ever before, as well as larger role played by sleep related syndromes such as sleep paralysis and a plethora of monstrous manifestations that have sprung up in order to explain it.

I think Sweet Dreams by Tricia Sullivan should be taken as a key text in this new dreaming curricula. Maybe it was inevitable that we've reached the gates of sleep, or that lucid dreaming has such an attraction for us today, or how 'dreamers' have taken center stage, the minute all our waking hours are being avidly quantified and skepticism about mindfulness increases. Sweet Dreams overturns the nightmares of Davos /and/or for-profit dreams by captains of industry or tech gurus by placing the experimented upon - the subjects of new technologies at the core of emergent super intelligences/archilects that seem firmly outside the bounds of waking life. These hackable dreamers are not on top of the situation, yet their weakness might be the key & offer us close & intimate insight into gaping illusions & mortal delusions filled - morphing world that is increasingly made inhababitable by a host of ëerie sentience afloat. Not sure yet how this squares out with the nightmare of being surpassed, drifting into obsolescence & palpable fears regarding an 'intelligence explosion' or the inscrutable aspects of other dreaming minds we are building and will never probably understand. ...more

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Apr 05, 2019 Annamariah rated it it was ok

Shelves: science-fiction, reviewed-books, x-helmet-2019

I borrowed this book from the library because I needed a book about dreaming for a reading challenge. The premise is very interesting. Charlie is a dreamhacker who can enter other people's dreams and modify them. She also suffers from narcolepsy, which makes her life rather complicated. When sleepwalkers begin to die, Charlie finds herself in the middle of a murder mystery.

For some reason I struggled with this book. Even though it is not a very long one, I fell asleep more than once in the middl ...more

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Aug 04, 2020 Anna rated it really liked it

Recommended to Anna by: Rae

Shelves: scifi, fiction, dreams

I've been enjoying Tricia Sullivan's sci-fi novels for more than twenty years. They always feature interesting ideas, weird situations, and pleasingly eccentric female main characters. Whether I love or just like her books depends upon how the interesting idea is extrapolated. My favourite remains Maul, which is fantastic. I found Lightborn, Double Vision, and Sound Mind less involving. Occupy Me was great fun, though, and I liked 'Sweet Dreams' just as much. Here, the main character Charlie too I've been enjoying Tricia Sullivan's sci-fi novels for more than twenty years. They always feature interesting ideas, weird situations, and pleasingly eccentric female main characters. Whether I love or just like her books depends upon how the interesting idea is extrapolated. My favourite remains Maul, which is fantastic. I found Lightborn, Double Vision, and Sound Mind less involving. Occupy Me was great fun, though, and I liked 'Sweet Dreams' just as much. Here, the main character Charlie took part in a medical study because she was broke and ended up with narcolepsy, plus the ability to share other people's dreams. In classic late capitalist fashion, she manages her disability and pays the rent with a gig economy job doing 'dream therapy'. Basically, she goes into people's dreams and tweaks them to reduce anxiety, make them sexier, etc. Charlie is a great protagonist as she's kind, cheerful, and totally chaotic. Although the plot twists involving mysterious deaths were diverting, I'd have happily read a novel about her daily life in 2027 cyberpunk London. The little details were great: whenever Charlie goes into someone's home, she wonders how they can afford this much space in London. I was particularly amused when she went into a bleak flat with no furnishings and her first thought was how amazing that the inhabitant could afford to live alone! The virtual reality and dream technology isn't overexplained; instead the first person narrative gives a feel for it. The descriptions of dreaming didn't evoke my actual experiences of dreaming, but that didn't matter as they were still suitably strange and eerie.

(view spoiler) The baseline mayhem of Claire's everyday life was excellent, the characters distinctive, and the plot and world-building weirdness combined to make a very diverting rainy staycation day read. ...more

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This was so terrible. I genuinely regret pushing though and wish I’d abandoned it.

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Sep 26, 2020 Jessica Connelly rated it it was ok

This was the strangest crime book I've read. The random references are jarring and the writing style isn't to my taste. At all.
The word 'juiced' just has no place in a sex scene. ...more

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Jan 16, 2020 Seregil of Rhiminee rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Originally published at Risingshadow.

Tricia Sullivan's Sweet Dreams is an excellent combination of science fiction and surrealism with elements of humour, thriller, mystery and horror interwoven into the story. It's a wonderful exploration of dreams and dream world with an emphasis on entertaining and thought-provoking storytelling. It's an utterly fresh and thrilling reading experience.

I was impressed by Sweet Dreams, because it's not your normal kind of speculative fiction, but something diffe ...more

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Sep 29, 2017 Mary Jarwood rated it really liked it

I received a free e-copy of this book from the publisher on Netgalley in return for an honest review.

While many crave sleep at the end of the day for Charlie her problem is sleeping too much. After developing narcolepsy after taking part a drug trial the year before, not only does she find herself falling asleep in stressful situations, she has discovered a unique ability that she has gained, she is able to enter other people’s dreams. Charlie wishes to use this ability to help others who suffer I received a free e-copy of this book from the publisher on Netgalley in return for an honest review.

While many crave sleep at the end of the day for Charlie her problem is sleeping too much. After developing narcolepsy after taking part a drug trial the year before, not only does she find herself falling asleep in stressful situations, she has discovered a unique ability that she has gained, she is able to enter other people’s dreams. Charlie wishes to use this ability to help others who suffer from nightmares but there are others who are looking to exploit Charlie, will she discover the truth before the pile of bodies mounting up contains her own?

Charlie is certainly relatable, not so much in that she can enter people’s dreams but, in her emotions and actions. From the start she is a well thought out character who you – I – start to empathise with and root for. At times, yes, she is extremely needy which makes her the ending all the more satisfying when she finally gains some independence. O, short for Olivia, quickly grew on me as well. Charlie’s elderly roommate who is helping to kick start Charlie’s business certainly has a unique character about her and has also very clearly been well thought out. Their interactions reminded me of a grandmother-granddaughter relationship. The other characters were well written but not nearly as memorable. Shandy’s quirkiness is what makes her memorable, not her character arc or actions. With a plot that can be extremely complex (especially towards the end) I’m glad there weren’t too many characters to focus on but I think some of them weren’t as thought out as Charlie and O.

It is set in a not so far into the future, where people are wired in to the web all of the time. Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality are daily for all people and the corporations selling the software seem intent on keeping people connected. This doesn’t sound too far off what is happening today, with Google glasses and virtual reality games making their way onto the scene this is not only a thriller, but an excellent view and commentary on where society is heading and whether having all of this technology is a good thing. The side affects, consequences and uses for evil or nefarious schemes of having such a technology at our disposal is clearly outlined within this book.

It was an interesting read and certainly well put together. The internal logic of the dreams and the development of the Agency did get confusing at the end of the novel. I was kind of expecting it but it became difficult to follow as it drew to its conclusion. The idea behind the novel is impressive, but I think more time could have been used explaining the dream space the different apps that seem to connect people while dreaming. As I said, I followed towards the ending but I think a little bit more information would have been helpful. The characters interacted well with one another and the subtle references to today’s culture certainly helped to ground the novel.

If you’re looking a thriller with a twist I would recommend this book. ...more

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Sep 18, 2017 Kath rated it really liked it

Well, this was a little different to my usual reads. Charlie has the ability to enter people's dreams and manipulate them. She does this in a therapeutic way, selling her services to help those afflicted by bad dreams and nightmares. Her ability started just after she took part in a medical trial and appeared hand in hand with uncontrollable narcolepsy the combination of which has the power to leave her vulnerable. She lives with a rather interesting landlady, having answered an ad for a live in Well, this was a little different to my usual reads. Charlie has the ability to enter people's dreams and manipulate them. She does this in a therapeutic way, selling her services to help those afflicted by bad dreams and nightmares. Her ability started just after she took part in a medical trial and appeared hand in hand with uncontrollable narcolepsy the combination of which has the power to leave her vulnerable. She lives with a rather interesting landlady, having answered an ad for a live in carer, O, who also helps her with arranging clients. As we meet Charlie at the start of our story, she is being questioned. It appears that one of her clients, Mel, is dead. Not just that, but it transpires that the death occurred whilst she was still in dreamland, with Charlie. But, she's not just any client, she's a well known musician and, if that's not enough, she's Charlie's ex's current girlfriend. Is that motive enough for something fishy to be happening? Is Charlie involved in the death? Certain things happened when Charlie entered her dream though, things that shouldn't happen, coincidences that shouldn't be? Mel's Dreamscape was familiar, she described a person that Charlie also has nightmares about. Are the two of them connected more than just having shared a boyfriend and if so, how? What the heck is going on?
This was a strange book for me. I would definitely put it into the category I so loving call bonkers. But it was also brilliantly so. I love the concept of dream hacking - yes I also enjoyed the film Inception - and found the fact that someone could sort of astral project them self into someone else's dream quite intriguing. I also loved the diary / log entries that Charlie keeps as records of her work. Especially the more interesting dreams and hurdles she encounters early on.
As for the rest of things, well, you'll just have to read the book as to say more would just spoil it as certain things have to be discovered at the right times for the whole to work, and others have to stay secret for the jokes (and yes, there are quite a few of them along the way) to be funny. Suffice to say that it is rather convoluted and it would do you good to have your wits about you throughout!
The characters were brilliant. With characters such as those found in this book, being quite larger than life (to say the least in some cases) there is a danger that they could come across as caricatures. Luckily, although she sails close to it at times, the author doesn't quite cross it.
All in all, a rather interesting book that delivered for me on all levels. A substantial read that had it all but also didn't take itself too seriously. One which has definitely piqued my interest in this author enough to see what else she has written.
My thanks go to the Publisher and Netgalley for the chance to read this book. ...more

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Jul 21, 2019 Book Hunter Beth rated it liked it

Received free of charge in exchange for an honest review from Titan Books.

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f you watched Inception and thought, “man, this would be cooler if it had been a YA book written by Joss Whedon” then hold tight because I have a book for you!

This book, to be specific.

Sweet Dreams by Tricia Sullivan was an interesting read to be sure. I was in the mood for sci-fi when this showed up, courtesy of Titan Books, and I will be forever grateful for the opportunity to have read it. Sull Received free of charge in exchange for an honest review from Titan Books.

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f you watched Inception and thought, “man, this would be cooler if it had been a YA book written by Joss Whedon” then hold tight because I have a book for you!

This book, to be specific.

Sweet Dreams by Tricia Sullivan was an interesting read to be sure. I was in the mood for sci-fi when this showed up, courtesy of Titan Books, and I will be forever grateful for the opportunity to have read it. Sullivan runs with some very interesting themes in this novel, more than a few even manage to border on Asimov-levels of creative pseudo-science. It was a wild ride, though unfortunately, it does end up falling somewhat short on the mystery element. Let me explain:

Charlie is a dream hacker. She can enter the dreams of those nearby and alter them to the specifications of the dreamer. Charlie wasn’t born with these abilities, they are the result of a sleep study experiment gone wrong years before. Ergo, she is trying to use her “powers for good” sort of speak, but things almost immediately take a turn for the worst, as they are often want to do, when during one of these sessions Charlie’s newest and most prestigious client turns up dead. It wasn’t Charlie, but a strange masked killer known only as The Creeper.
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I wish Sullivan had fleshed this world out just a little bit more. I wish we’d understood the politics behind the tech industries that seem to be controlling the world, and I wish we’d been allowed to see a more technical side of the things that were being talked about in the book. Company names like BigSky and the titular app Sweet Dreams (which oddly ended up not playing nearly as big of a part as one would presume given that fact) seemed to be background features to Charlie and her obsession with finding The Creeper. There was also the fact that there are literal Dream Police, which sounds like a crappy offshoot of X Files but was actually quite interesting. Or at least, it should have been, considering that they were freelancers akin to Scooby-Doo and friends.
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Ultimately, I enjoyed the book, but it could have used more polish and a lot more prioritizing on world-building. I hope I’m wrong, but I feel like most people are going to end up sleeping on Sweet Dreams. ...more

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Jan 02, 2020 Nic rated it really liked it

Shelves: review-books, science-fiction, acquired-2017, read-2017

Review originally published in SFX magazine, issue 292 (November 2017)

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Just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean your dreams aren't out to get you.

It takes dreamhacker Charlie Aaron a while to realise this, because she's not a paranoid person, by nature. Indeed, she's so trusting that she gets nicknamed Polyanna (well, her best friend calls her 'Horse', for reasons that go delightfully unexplained), and by her own admission she's not very observant. The latter, she can't help; after taking ...more

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Nov 26, 2017 Caroline Mersey rated it liked it

Shelves: review-copies, readwomen

I've had lucid dreams. Dreams where you know you are dreaming, and can alter the events, rewinding and replaying for a different outcome. Charlie does that for a living in Sweet Dreams by Tricia Sullivan (review copy from Gollancz). She is a dreamhacker: paid to go into other people's dreams to help them overcome phobias and anxiety. It's not a job with a big client list, and it doesn't pay well, but it fits well round the narcolepsy Charlie was left with as a side-effect of a drug trial she par ...more

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Sep 23, 2021 Tal S rated it liked it

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Dec 18, 2020 Charmaine Ohl rated it really liked it

I loved the whole idea behind this story.

It was a very hard book to get through the start of though, it makes sense by the end of the book why it had to be that way, but honestly it took until just after half way to get to the 'can't put down' stage.
There is a sex scene in this book, and slightly detailed so be aware for younger readers, for older readers not that bad of a scene. In the end a great read, but lost a star as it took too long to get the to good stuff (even if for a reason :D ) ...more

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Dec 27, 2018 Unseen Library rated it really liked it

I received a copy of Sweet Dreams from Hachette Australia to review.

Rating of 3.5.

I did a short review of this book in the Canberra Weekly:
https://unseenlibrary.com/2018/12/27/...

Originally reviewed back in November 2017, I have re-published this review on my blog as part of my Throwback Thursday series.

For other interesting reviews, visit my blog at:
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Feb 27, 2018 Kevinjwoods rated it liked it

Despite more than you might think being based on reality, the Dream City for example has been encountered by numerous people and about 20 years ago something kicked me out of a dream, this is generally uninteresting, the plot goes almost nowhere, the reason behind the villain is told to Charlie by other people rather than being discovered and the ending makes very little sense.

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Jun 01, 2020 Stephanie Vickers rated it liked it

This book had a lot of potential and the idea behind the story was interesting. I just found the beginning was very choppy and took sometime to actually understand what is going on. Then I found the end to be very lack luster, I was waiting for the big reveal of why but it just ended. Not sure if it was supposed to have a deeper meaning but I was disappointed in the ending.

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Apr 12, 2019 Jeanette Greaves rated it really liked it · review of another edition

An entertaining sf / whodunnit / whodunwhat story set in a world of dreams. Our clueless but good hearted heroine finds herself in the centre of a series of murders. Who can she trust?

I really enjoyed this book. It was very well written, with a watertight plot and entertaining characters.

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Aug 07, 2019 Rob Frampton rated it liked it · review of another edition

An interesting if occasionally frustrating read. It never quite seems to strike a happy balance between whodunnit and speculative science fiction and its ending had unfortunate echoes of 'The Matrix' films, at least for me. Still it's compelling in its narrative and a decent time-filler. ...more

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Oct 28, 2019 PRL rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: rfantasy-bingo-2019, rfantasy-bingo-disability, rfantasy-bingo-cyberpunk

This book is like a cross between Inception and Paprika, but not necessarily in a good way. A very strong start was let down by a questionable second act and poor finale. So much potential felt squandered for want of a decent editor.

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Nov 01, 2017 susan murray rated it really liked it

Won from goodreads
Won interesting enjoyed it not sure about ending just my opinion worth a read

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Oct 26, 2018 David Kennedy rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Clever & entertaining

A wonderful set of characters, a twisty, tight plot, great writing. Despite the high-concept plot, everything is so grounded by the characters. Terrific.

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Dec 18, 2018 Angela Kitchen rated it really liked it

intriguing and different.

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Apr 29, 2019 Charlie Wright rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Loved the book but found the ending a little disappointing unfortunately

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Jul 07, 2019 Samantha van Buuren rated it liked it

Great concept but I got bored half way through.

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Oct 05, 2019 Vader rated it liked it

3 - Problem is i guessed it too soon.

5 star - Perfect
4 star - i would recommend
3 star - good
2 star - struggled to complete
1 star - could not finish

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Oct 28, 2019 Macha added it

3 and a half stars

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Jan 02, 2020 Steen Ledet rated it really liked it

Excellent whodunnit set in a future of dream hacking.

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Apr 26, 2020 lane rated it it was ok

Shelves: au, 2-stars

ending didnt seem to flow right w the rest of the story. very ehhh

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About Tricia Sullivan

Tricia Sullivan

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Tricia Sullivan (born July 7, 1968 in New Jersey, U.S.) is a science fiction writer. She has also written fantasy under the pseudonym Valery Leith.

She moved to the United Kingdom in 1995. In 1999 she won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for her novel Dreaming in Smoke. Her novel Maul was also shortlisted for the same award in 2004.

Sullivan has studied music and karate. Her partner is the martial artist ...more