Author: Laekan Zea Kemp
Genre: Paranormal Fantasy
Source: Ebook
Rating: 2 out of 5 paws
All Bryn wants is a normal life, a life where she doesn't fall asleep for weeks on end. It seems her Klein-Levin Syndrome is getting worse as her episodes are happening more frequently. But that isn't what scares Bryn the most. WHile she sleeps she spends her time on a beach reliving her memories, alone, that is until a boy washes up on the shore. Even while awake she is plagued with hallucinations of shadows creeping around her, shadows that feel like they are watching, waiting to hurt her. It seems like her only hope is Dr. Banz who has created an experimental trial, but he knows more about her situation than he lets on. Bryn must figure out what the boy in her dreams mean, could he be real? What are the shadows and what do they want? Bryn must find out who the boy is before it is too late. For both of them.
I had this book on my kindle to read list for a while now and never got around to reading it. I fell in love with the cover and the concept of the book. Only, I didn't fall in love with the book. It was a struggle to even finish the book. First of all there is a lot of fluff in the story, fluff that doesn't help push the story along and felt more life slice of life things rather than something important to the story. I get she wanted a normal life with her friends and to go to school, but there was so much in it that didn't make me want to continue with the story, and actually bored me. The premise has a lot of potential. A lot that could have been done with it, but for some reason...wasn't.
The ending, was just....unsatisfying. It just stopped as if the story was unfinished and the author decided to publish it anyway. I understand the novel is a part of a series, but it just leaves the reader wondering, what the heck. We barely learn anything about Bryn other than she has KLS and has 2 friends and a boyfriend who from I gathered is borderline abusive, but she keeps going back to him. There wasn't any depth to Bryn, we don't get her inner turmoil, her fears, worries etc aside from the general things of being a teenage girl. The book is told from two viewpoints, Bryn and Roman, but the voices are the same. There is nothing to indicate which one is speaking other than their names at the beginning of the chapters. She consistently judged her cousin for her choices which made me not like her at all. There were times when Dani needed her and she just "wasn't in the mood of Dani's drama." How is that supposed to make me like her when Dani stood by her all the years with this disorder? That's not how you treat friends.
The paced of the story was just dragging, but then again when you have a story revolving around teen angst, drinking, sex rather than the actual story, it will drag on. It doesn't really get into the plot of the story until almost the end, about the last 30% of the novel. I don't want to spend 70% of a novel with slow build up. I want to be excited to see what happens, suspicious of Dr. Banz early on not towards the end. There were numerous sentence fragments, run on sentences, almost like an editor didn't read through it.
I haven't decided if I will attempt the next book in the series, but I do not think I would recommend The Girl In Between.
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