Book in the Spotlight: Lucid by Adrienne Stoltz and Ron Bass
Happy first day of May everyone! To start off this month, I have decided to review the book called Lucid by Adrienne Stolz and Ron Bass. This book is fiction and is considered paranormal. The hardcover version has 343 pages.
This story is about two girls named Maggie and Sloane who live in completely different places, have completely different lives but somehow, they are intertwined into each other's lives.
Maggie is a teenage actress who lives in Manhattan with her mother and her sister. Sloane is a normal teenage girl with a loving family. Both girls have love interests. Maggie's love interests are Andrew and Thomas while Sloane's are James and Gordy.
What intertwines Maggie and Sloane is that at night they dream about each other's lives. They only keep this biggest secret between the two of them in fear that they could lose the people they love most or everyone will think they are crazy. In a way, the two only have each other and have a bond that no one else could quite understand.
I hate to say it, but this book was dragged out for the first three-quarters. It wasn't until the last bit that things actually began to fall into place. The beginning and middle were filled with the dullness of Sloane's daily life and the ridiculousness of Maggie's life for a teenage actress.
It isn't until the last bit of the novel, where I actually got excited. The dullness had been dragged out long enough and the authors finally let us into the madness that should have started from the half-way point. I applaud the authors for keeping me on my toes but it was way too long. The ending tied up the story but I feel that there could have been so much more explained and so much more written.
I would give this novel a 2.5 out of 5. I had high hopes for Lucid but in the end was more disappointed than anything.
