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I Dream in Color (The Dreamer Chronicles #1) by Sarah Mazza
1 review
jersy's review
challenging
dark
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
4.0
Thanks to the author for providing a review copy :)
This book is a haunting, dark and kind of depressing experience, it's hard hitting and set in a world that hits close to home. It feels real, with a filter of the surreal put over it by the narrator. From the very beginning, the feelings of Alex and the whole tone of the book are showcased extremely well. It is intense, and the raw and expressive writing doesn't give you a break, except in some much needed moments of loving interactions between broken people. While I normally don't like books that make you feel sad, this one sucked me right in, made me care and developed into a (dystopian?) SF novel for fans of new weird as well as literary fiction. There is some mental health and lgtbq+ representation if you're looking for that in your books, but it's more like a complete look into the protagonists psyche as a whole than just that. The ending is also really captivating, making me wonder what the sequel will be like and if I want to read it. I'm not sure I want to subject myself to it if it's as dark, but this was also so well done and I'm curious. Either way, this was an impressive look within SF at escaping the pain of life and the people sometimes thought of as outside of society.
This book is a haunting, dark and kind of depressing experience, it's hard hitting and set in a world that hits close to home. It feels real, with a filter of the surreal put over it by the narrator. From the very beginning, the feelings of Alex and the whole tone of the book are showcased extremely well. It is intense, and the raw and expressive writing doesn't give you a break, except in some much needed moments of loving interactions between broken people. While I normally don't like books that make you feel sad, this one sucked me right in, made me care and developed into a (dystopian?) SF novel for fans of new weird as well as literary fiction. There is some mental health and lgtbq+ representation if you're looking for that in your books, but it's more like a complete look into the protagonists psyche as a whole than just that. The ending is also really captivating, making me wonder what the sequel will be like and if I want to read it. I'm not sure I want to subject myself to it if it's as dark, but this was also so well done and I'm curious. Either way, this was an impressive look within SF at escaping the pain of life and the people sometimes thought of as outside of society.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Mental illness, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Alcoholism, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Police brutality, Domestic abuse, and Child abuse
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