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Roy Freirich

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Winged Creatures: A Novel (2008) 50 exemplars
Deprivation (2020) 32 exemplars

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Ressenya escrita per a Crítics Matiners de LibraryThing .
The premise is a good one. The character development isn’t the best. The main character is okay and I like that the story is told from multiple perspectives but the motivations of people are thin and surface-like. Especially the female characters.
It is told one day at a time. The symptoms of sleep deprivation don’t seem to affect most of the characters until day seven and eight which is just silly. I feel like the author should have tried it themselves before writing about it. There should have been more clumsy accidents on days two and three. More desperation more quickly.
They describe people first as completely altruistic and then suddenly completely animalistic. Yes most people are pretty selfish and on the edge of insanity on any given day of the week.
But there was no way to guess a characters’ next move because it was so haphazard.
The last few chapters were action packed but I mad myself read the thing to find out WHY it was happening and in the end, major characters are killed off and no explanation is provided.
I was really disappointed.
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sondic | Hi ha 11 ressenyes més | Jul 21, 2022 |
I liked this book overall but there were times it lost interest and I found I skimmed through parts. Great ending.
 
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ChrisCaz | Hi ha 11 ressenyes més | Feb 23, 2021 |
Ressenya escrita per a Crítics Matiners de LibraryThing .
What an adventure. This author writes so eloquently. A small island where people suddenly cannot sleep. It reminded me of Needful Things by Stephen King, except there is no devil. People just slowly go crazy and have disillusions about others. It did take me awhile to read it, but it was completely worth it. Excellent for adults and teens. Also, would make a fantastic movie. :-)
 
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chutchi | Hi ha 11 ressenyes més | Feb 17, 2021 |
Ressenya escrita per a Crítics Matiners de LibraryThing .
Who is the mysterious child, and is he responsible for the horror that has enveloped the town? No one really knows. When a child is found alone on the beach, unwilling or unable to speak or write, along with being dirty, a doctor resident of the town must decide what to do. When he receives word of this, the local doctor, Dr. Sam Carlson, calls the town chief of police to help him figure out what to do. The chief is reluctant to call Child Services and stick the child into the system, so he persuades the doctor to take the child home. The doctor reluctantly agrees, as he is grappling with his own problems: coping with a student, who was also a patient, who committed suicide. Still, this is a child in need…Soon thereafter, the whole island is unable to sleep, and the growing insomnia drives people to the doctor for help. They then decide the child is the root of the problem. However, there is not much help coming, and mob rule takes over before you know it. What can the doctor and chief do to save the child from the mobs—or can they even save the child?

The story is told from three perspectives: the chief of police’s, the doctor’s, and that of a teenage tourist, which made the book interesting because, you got different perspectives about the whole thing. The descriptions of the town’s actions, its residents and of those involved were interesting and spot-on. I enjoyed reading, waiting anxiously to see what would happen next and how or if it would all turn out okay. I am pretty much an insomniac, so I also related well to the story in that respect. Sleep deprivation can and will do strange things to the human body and psyche, as the book demonstrates. The book did start a bit slow for me, but it picked up soon enough. The situation, though horrifying, was a bit far-fetched, to say the least, but not really beyond the realms of possibility. The whole plot was definitely different, and not like the plots of books I normally read. If you have difficulty sleeping, you may want to pass on this one, but you also may want to jump right in as I did to see how it goes and what happens. I received this to read and review from Library Thing.
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KMT01 | Hi ha 11 ressenyes més | Aug 26, 2020 |

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