Sean

I had really high hopes for this one based on how much I enjoyed The Midnight Library. I'm not sure if it was just that I wasn't in the right mood for this kind of book, but it felt like it really dragged on. The idea of the story was interesting, but I just kept feeling like the story itself wasn't really going anywhere. I didn't hate it, but I definitely didn't enjoy it as much as I did The Midnight Library.

This is an earlier book by Dan Frey (author of Dreambound). I read it after loving Dreambound as much as I did. It uses the same unique story-telling method, but it's pretty clear that he got better at that narrative style by the time he wrote Dreambound. This one started to drag on about halfway through, and I found myself getting bored reading all of the different text messages and email exchanges only to have the plot barely move forward at all. The story was still interesting though, so I'm not mad I read it.