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My Review:Title: Sleepless (Bird of Stone, #1)
Author: Tracey Ward
Series: Bird of Stone #1
Published by: Indie
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Format: Kindle Book
Pages: 404
Genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Romance
Reading Challenges: CC's Goodreads Reading Challenge, CC's Science Fiction vs Fantasy Bingo 2018
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My rating:
Blurb:My name is Alex Mills and I have a superpower.
Don't be jealous, it sucks. I can't control it. My mind is a mutinous SOB that takes over when I go to sleep. I'm just a girl trying to get some shut eye while it decides to throw a rager that can land me just about anywhere in the world.
The base of the Eiffel Tower.The shore on the coast of Ireland.The third baseline at Wrigley Field.
Sounds exciting and fun right? Wrong. My not so superpower is unpredictable, uncontrollable and annoying as hell. It's also how I met Nick.
Every cloud has a silver lining. Nick is mine.
Nick is extraordinary as well. He can't feel fear. Never has, never will. It's worked out for him as a PJ in the Air Force, one of the most dangerous jobs in the military, but where it's not helpful is with his social skills. Nick is cold, distant and apathetic.
He's also my hero. And if he's to be believed, I'm his.
I first met him when he died and that wasn't even the weirdest moment of our relationship. Neither is this moment here and now, trapped together in an island prison on the Behring Sea. It's a long, strange story between his death and this prison. One full of sheep, docks, Jabberwocks and a very special stone. I could tell it to you if you'd like to hear it. I've got time...
*Contains mild language and sexual situations.
Favorite Quotes:
The other day Campbell told me the history behind the X-Men Gambit, a thief from Louisiana who can manipulate energy, and Rogue, a girl who can steal the life and powers of others with a single touch. They went back and forth; in love, not in love, never able to touch each other, fighting evil, righting wrongs, wearing spandex. I thought the story was sort of beautiful. That’s when I realized I was lonely.
Give a girl a break, guys. I just woke up on the hot asphalt ten minutes ago after traveling my corporeal being through the fibers of time and space using only my mind. What have you done? Peed and brushed your teeth? Congrats. Here, have a Pop Tart and leave me alone.
I can feel him judging me. Hell, I’m judging me, and as our mutual judgments weave a lovely scarlet tapestry in the air between us, I contemplate jumping from the ten foot high moving vehicle and gleefully eating asphalt.
“You don’t owe me anything.” “I know. But I love you, and there’s nothing else for me but you.” I’ve never spoken those words in my life. Not even to my mother and, sadly, never to my father. I was a stunted, broken little boy who grew up into a shuttered, angry young man, and those three little words never found a place in my repertoire. I didn’t know that I could even feel it, not like this. Not until her. But then one day there it was and it wasn’t as complicated and ridiculous as I thought it would be. It was simple and easy to fall in love with her. Almost like I always had been, even before I met her. I was just waiting for her to show up. For her to find me by a river and remind me what it is to breathe.
This book meets the Portal space requirement for #SFvFBingo being hosted by Curiosity Killed the Bookworm.
It started out good but it took a while to get to the good parts. I really liked her snarky attitude so that kept my attention and made me feel the book might be able to redeem itself. Unfortunately, it wasn’t enough to keep me caring enough by the end of the book. There was so many things that just didn’t add up and I didn’t think were relevant to the story. If they were added for future relevance it wasn’t clear and I didn’t care about them by that point.
For instance, I don’t know why she is so afraid. They only kinda skim her reasoning for her fear of getting involved with Nick. I don’t remember anything tragic in her past that was referenced for her fear. And they don’t clarify if it was an unreasonable fear, even that I would understand. We are kinda just left hanging in that aspect.
And how he didn’t believe she was real. If he really wanted to find out if she was real all she would need to do is give him her cell number, they both have them. Boom, problem solved. I don’t know, the romance was nice to read, a slow simmer where we fall in love with their minds before their bodies and I do enjoy those types of romances. But other than that….don’t think I’ll finish this series.
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