Charlotte witnesses several gruesome murders. I didn’t have this problem in Sleep No More, and I never lost attention during the visions. I usually lose attention during dream/vision scenes, because it’s just so damn hard to make them surreal enough without being incoherent. Charlotte’s powers and visions were very well done. Especially towards the end, when Charlotte learns more about her Oracle powers, and the battle against the killer moves from the physical world to the mental, it started to freak me out a bit.

It’s claustrophobic and has a rather bleak feel to it. Ms Pike took quite a risk with this story. It might just be that I have been reading 19th century literature lately, which has even more telling and near to no showing. The story moved along nicely without interactions. There are very little characters in the book – Charlotte is a very isolated person – and therefore there are less character interactions than you would expect. Admittedly, Sleep No More is heavy on the internal monologue. Maybe her writing style just doesn’t agree with all readers. Both books I read by her now, Sleep No More and Life After Theft were very enjoyable, and definitely not in any way “worse” than other books in YA. What should she do? Let the future run its course, or try to intervene?įor some reason Aprilynne Pike gets pretty low average ratings on Goodreads, and I have no idea why.

One day she doesn’t succeed in blocking the vision out, and she sees a murder. She gets visions of the future – but one rule she has learnt in her life is to never surrender to the visions.

Life After Theft by Aprilynne Pike