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Thomas Fahy

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

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Horror

Age Range

14+

ISBN

1416959017

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Don't fall asleep!

September 23, 2009

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Lately horror YAs Â have fascinated me.Â The whole idea that evil is right under the surface, seems so real and scary.Â And when I heard of SLEEPLESS by Thomas Fahy, I knew I had to read it.Â I wasnt disappointed.

Emma Montgomery has been having terrifying nightmares.Â She fears falling asleep.Â Even worse, she finds herself in a different place in the morning.Â But shes not the only one.Â Others at Saint Opportuna High are also sleepwalking and having nightmares.Â Then a classmate is found dead.Â

Something is making them kill but whom?Â Emma and her friends band together to try to stay awake and not be responsible for any more deaths.Â Seems something else bands them together.Â A dark secret that happened back in New Orleans.Â A secret that might be coming back to haunt them.Â Or even worse, kill them.Â Its up to them to find out who is behind the gruesome deaths before they are next.

This fast-paced tale kept me glued to the pages.Â The whole idea of someones nightmares actually coming true is terrifying.Â But even worse what happens if you are responsible for killing someone when you are sleepwalking?Â Fahy creates a world where evil might lay deep inside, just waiting to be released. Â Emma and her friends arent the usual clichÃ©s found in teen slasher movies.Â No, the cheerleader has a hidden side.Â As does the pot-head, whos not just a stoner.Â Even the revelation at the end surprised me.

Recommended for those who love THE DEVOURING and other horror tales.Â This one wont disappoint.Â Just make sure to not read late at night.Â Or at least have a light on.

Kim Baccellia, Staff Reviewer Top 10 Reviewer 889 reviews

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BEFORE:

I found Sleepless in the school library after being told that we're doing a project in english involving reading a book. No big deal.

The cover is amazing. Kind of cliche, but it makes you think. So a girl is wearing those eye cover things you use to sleep sometimes, and there's blood streaming out from behind it. E.W.

At 209 pages, this book is a bit shorter than I usually read, but this is for a class, so I didn't want to pick too big a book just in case I didn't like it. Because either way, I still have to read it. So, it's best that it's short.

I have high hopes for this book. I'm hoping that it will be scary, yet not too gory. It's hard to find a good book/movie that knows how to differentiate between the two.

So, I know by the blurb that Emma, the main character, starts having dreams, and she kills people in her sleep. Then people in her school start to have the dreams too, and kill people. They have to work together to stop themselves from killing anyone else.

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THERE IS NO AFTER. Book bored me so I returned it. Peace

Brittney Walker Top 1000 Reviewer 2 reviews

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A fantastic book of life and death

August 08, 2010

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Reader reviewed by Ruthie

I didn't expect to like this book. I mean, Sandmen? The last time I even heard that word was when I was six and had trouble sleeping. My parents would tell me to talk to the Sandman until I feel asleep. Yeah, right. But as I started the book I was introduced to something heart-wrenching. The pain of losing a loved one and the regrets, could've,should've,would've. Everyone gets these feelings, why couldn't Sandmen? Although he insisted he wasn't human anymore, Eron had human feelings and emotions. He still cared for the beings he kept watch over. Eron was my favorite character in this book. Julia was another person one could relate to but she was still confused about who she was and what niche she fell into. After the death of her boyfriend, Griffin, she changes as a person. Griffin was another interesting character. In the beginning you didn't think he cared for Julia but over time you realized he did. He didn't realize what was best for her. Enough of my rambling. The point is, this book had awesome characters, a great storyline and it was fast read. Definitely pick this one up in the future!

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Lock Your Bedroom Door And Bar The Windows

November 17, 2009

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Reader reviewed by Joe M.

Thomas Fahy's "Sleepless" is a page-turner about a Â group of teenagers who, since coming back from a volunteering project in New Orleans, have been having gruesome, unnerving nightmares. What's worse is that when they wake up, they are not where they were when they fell asleep. Or at least, not the same way they fell asleep. Soon, another student from Saint Opportuna Catholic High School is found dead. It becomes too clear that they are killing in their sleep. But who is making them - and will they be able to stop it before anyone else is murdered?

This story has two narrators - Emma and Jake, who both have feelings for the other, wondering if they love them back. A typical scenario that is anything but typical - Jake is a drug addict who sells pot at the auto repair shop he works at, and Emma misses her deceased mother, and wants to find someone who could have the same love for her. Their friends are Duncan - a boy who has a bizarre interest in geology, and Lily, who ... well, I never really saw anything personal about her.

In New Orleans, these teenagers went with their teacher Dr. Beecher, to New Orleans where they helped Habitat for Humanity build a house for a single mother and her daughter. After the murder of the local priest there, everyone swears not to tell a soul about what they witnessed.

Now the students at Saint Opportuna have nightmares and sleepwalk, not knowing what they are looking for in their sleep. Things go from strange to scary when a classmate, Susann Roberts, smashes a boy's nose with her textbook, only to be found unresponsive and not knowing what just took place.

I found this an incredible novel full of all the suspense and mystery I could ever want! The particularly gruesome deaths especially captured my attention. (However, I must say that the whole "blood" theme is overplayed a bit.) The characters were okay, however, I thought Duncan and Lily were a little one-dimensional - particularly for being main characters. Lily in particular seems like a paper doll only stuffed into "Sleepless" in order to serve as Duncan's crush/friend. Even Emma seems to be lacking in personality-she misses her mom and has so far been really bad about picking boyfriends-whoo.

Â The twist ending is excellently action-packed, jaw-dropping, and full of violence (what else could be in a horror book?) !!

The only thing confusing to me is the recommended age range. The jacket says "Ages 12 +", but that seems to be way too low for this sort of "Night of the Dreaming Dead"- sort of like giving the "Birds" movie a G rating. "Sleepless" is full of language, violence, drugs, disturbing situations, and sex - everything that a 12-year-old should not be reading!

But for teenagers, on the other hand ... Reader Discretion Advised.

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