Author: Sarah Dessen
Publisher: Speak
Publication Date: May 11th 2004
Pages: 250
Genre: YA, Realistic Fiction, Contemporary
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Synopsis: (Via GoodReads)
Wake up, Caitlin
Ever since she started going out with Rogerson Biscoe, Caitlin seems to have fallen into a semiconscious dreamland where nothing is quite real. Rogerson is different from anyone Caitlin has ever known. He's magnetic. He's compelling. He's dangerous. Being with him makes Caitlin forget about everything else--her missing sister, her withdrawn mother, her lackluster life. But what happens when being with Rogerson becomes a larger problem than being without him?
This story follows Caitlin through her hard life. She has her older sister run away from home on Caitlin's birthday. This unravels to show the reader that Caitlin was always in the shadow of her sister. Caitlin has the popular sister that everyone loved and knew, her own parents loved her just a little more. So with her sister running away the attention falls on Caitlin and this forces her to step outside of her comfort zone.
This book is very real ad many people will be able to relate to it. I found myself relating to the book in the sense with her always coming second to her sister and needing an escape from trying to be perfect. Caitlin makes the choices that she feels are necessary and I could see myself making them as well. I felt myself really growing with the character and I related to her like a reader should.
Throughout this book the character grows in a way that makes you sad and devastated, but in the last chapter she grows into her own person. The person you could see her being from the very beginning. Dreamland is a heartbreaking novel that I believe is one of Sarah Dessen's best novels. The book really makes you question everything that happens and how certain people live their life's. I believe this book captures the essence of the victims mind perfectly and it is and amazing book that proves that Sarah Dessen is an amazing writer.
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