What’s really happening? Does anybody even know? The answer is just confusion and chaos, which is what I imagine it’s like to live through an epidemic outbreak. But these different perspectives act as the Rashomon effect. There are also smaller characters who get to have a perspective as well. You’re following the path of one of the girls who was at the college when the outbreak was first discovered, a family of doomsday preppers who lock themselves away from society once the outbreak starts, a professor at the college and his wife and new baby that live next to the doomsday preppers, and then a psychiatrist from the LA area who is flown in to help figure out whats happening. You get little snippets here and there and you’re not sure what information is accurate and which information is not. In this book it serves to emphasize the chaos that ensues when you have an epidemic outbreak. Unfortunately the rest of the book didn’t follow through with what the synopsis got me hooked with.

That was enough to get me to add this book to my TBR and pick it up from the library upon its release. People are just conking the 🤬 out all over the place, and not many of them are waking up. In The Dreamers, Thompson Walker paints a picture of a Californian town that is home to an outbreak of a sleeping sickness.

While I really liked this quote that I found in the book, I ended up just liking the rest of the book. “Not everything that happens in a life can be digested.

The dreamers karen walker