Review: The Nightmare Within
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 30, 2011
This book is about a man Maury who opens a dream museum called Lucidity. He takes dreams out of people heads and they become real. He then puts them inside glass "cages" for display. They move, talk etc..There are different wings including a nightmare wing.Maury is also helping a man Nolan Gage with his daughter who is in a coma. I may have missed something somewhere but I was never sure HOW Maury was going to wake her up. She had her dreams that maury took with her and they were all pleasant one being a sock monkey. I guess that was supposed to help her heal in time?I REALLY wanted to like this book more then I did because it was an original idea and I really liked the idea of the book. However I really just did not connect with the characters as much as I would have liked to. I really did not like Maury at all and I didn't really understand the point of Nolan's role.There were parts that just did not make sense to me either like how could Mr. Freakshow hurt people but Juilet could not kill with her gun? Ok the gun is part of the dream.. I can buy that.. but she is a dream yet can have sex and get pregnant? Pick one or the other IMO.Mr. Freakshow's name was way overused for me I got to the point sometimes I was like OMG really!? Are you trying to see how many times you can fit this name into this book!? (maybe that is just me tho)This one is just nitpicking but why was Sophie the only one who's last name was almost always used?I enjoyed the story part of the book it was a great idea and it kept my interest long enough to get to the end I just wish I could have connected a little more with the characters in the story.