Review: If you're suggestible, you are in for a roller coaster ride.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 27, 2013
I am suggestible. By that I mean that when the hypnotist at the state fair does his act, I start to go under even tho I haven't been picked to be on stage; only with the greatest effort do I pull myself away from his word pictures and retain control of my mind and body. I get contact highs. I'm overly influenced by anything I see on the big screen and small if it's well done. And like lots of readers, I lose myself in books. But once in awhile, the words in a book will hijack my consciousness~~ vulnerable to the chaotic sweep of pictures and emotions and atmosphere; I become physically and mentally affected as I am pulled into the alternate reality created by the author's skill with 26 letters of the alphabet.This book is about a woman for whom the line between awake and dreaming is blurred. What is real? The feeling of disorientation she experiences is so well described that by less than half way through the book I began to experience it too, to the point that when I got up to get a glass of water, I couldn't tell if what was going on around me was real.I didn't always like the main character. But she was real, and that's what's important. She is a photographer. I am also a photographer. There is a long scene where she is shooting a wedding, and her inner dialogue about the process during that scene is so true to life it's uncanny.I'm still disoriented; my thoughts are a jumble. Read this book. It's in my best of the best list. It is compelling, chaotic, and rewarding.