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BOOK REVIEW: Dreaming the Enemy

Dreaming the Enemy - David Metzenthen
This is an incredibly hard book to get caught up in, and after struggling through it for a while, I had to put it down.
 
I don’t normally review books I didn’t finish, and those I do review usually rate a 1 or 2 out of 10.

In the instance of Dreaming the Enemy, however, I can appreciate what the author was going for. There is a disconnection here between the reader and the characters, and the story is told in a cold and passive way with lots of telling and very little, if any, showing. It follows a non-linear path that makes it hard to tell what’s now and what’s then, what’s really happening, and what’s in Johnny’s imagination.

 

 

The rest of this review can be found HERE!