Sleep Donation

3.5 Will review at www.fantasyliterature.com.

I loved the premise of this novel - the idea that there was an epidemic of insomnia - but for the most part felt the story was a bit flat. It read almost like a documentary about the epidemic with the focus on one or two characters. And while we learned a little about the main character's guilt over her sister's death, and the guilt of using her story to enroll people for sleep donation, we don't really learn much more about her. Likewise we meet the family of Baby A but I felt confused about the father's motivation later in the story.

Sleep Donation is a short, well written read, but lacking in finer detail.

I really wanted to like Sleep Donation; it had a fascinating premise, and the prose was sometimes very good. Unfortunately I ended up feeling that the author was a bit too enamored of the sound of her own eloquence. Also, I would have liked an actual ending.