I really like this author. I have only read a few of his books, but I have decided I need to read more of them. They are mysterious, yet not like a "murder mystery" or anything like that. His characters have some sort of disorder, mental health issue or just something "internal" going on - at least in the books I have read. It makes the stories very intriguing and unpredictable.
I did not know very much about parasomnia. I know that some people sleepwalk, but I didn't realize how dangerous it can be. It was hard to know who to trust; who to believe in this story. I thought the journal entries (the paragraphs in italics between each chapter) were incredibly informative about the writer's "journey" as a sleepwalker. Of course I thought I knew who was writing the entries. It was just one thing that I had wrong! I also didn't realize that sleepwalking could be "contained" or a sleepwalker could go into a sort of remission through the use of medication. Yet another use of Clonazepam. Who knew?
I didn't know what to think of Gavin Rikert. I didn't trust him, but I wanted to. I just wasn't sure if he was telling Lianna the truth about his relationship with Annalee. I didn't understand what had interrupted his relationship with Annalee if he wasn't initially involved with her sexually. Yet, I wanted to believe that he was telling Lianna the truth about that. Lianna obviously was falling in love with him, so I didn't want her to be involved with someone that may have been involved the death of her mother. In the end, Gavin was in-tangled in ways I did not predict. I was definitely worried about Lianna spending the night with Gavin! I thought it was interesting that Lianna figured out a way to "manage" Gavin's sleep-sex.
I felt sorry for Lianna's father. First he has a sleep-sex sleepwalker for a wife. He had to deal with the sleep-sex, but also Annalee finding what she needed whenever he was out of town. I would not like to know that my spouse was having sleep-sex with anyone else, that's for sure. He must have loved her a lot to put up with that. Lianna's wonders about her father being the biological father of her sister. I was so happy that in the end she realizes that her sister is her father's daughter, regardless of who contributed the sperm.
So, I learned a lot about sleepwalking, SRV, SBS and how a polysomnogram works. I learned that I am glad I am not a sleepwalker and that no one in my family is!
Wendy's Rating: ****
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