30 Days Book Challenge
Day 12: A book you love but hate at the same time

Errmm… So there’s this book that I read for purely guilty pleasure reason. And yeah, I didn’t expect much, but turned out, it has a very intriguing concept that I think should be explored much much deeper and merited something so much better that this story.

It all began with a what-if question about someone who sleepwalked and did his deepest desire without being conscious about it. At first it only resulted in harmless actions like going to places he didn’t normally go to while awake, flirting with people he usually didn’t dare acknowledge as attractive, drawing beautiful yet disturbing pictures when normally he couldn’t do it awake, stuff like that. But then one day, he burned the home of a man who made his life absolutely miserable just because of who he is. And so the small town is in uproar because the medical examiner declared his sleepwalking as an impairing medical condition that made him a non-responsible party for that incident, while everyone was ready to condemn him as a heartless murderer. It’s dark, unnerving, but somehow a little bit beautiful in the isolation that the main lead lived in.

Sadly, the build-up of that concept is completely ruined when the writer focused too much on the sex scenes and the other unnecessary stuff. And yeah, I’m too embarrassed to spill the title to you all. *hides*

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    But my dear @gadis, isn’t that the whole point? For you to NOT be embarrassed by your pick of reading material? Just because you read something that’s not considered “literature” doesn’t mean you don’t enjoy thoughtful/ educational/ intellectual/ *put whatever description you want here* reads or that you are less of a reader, and just because you enjoy the classics or “appropriate” books doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the more “easy” reads or that you’re a snob! A reader is a reader as long as they read. Choice of their reading material is up to them.

    I like to read:
    Romance novels
    Cozy mysteries
    Youth Sleuth stories (ala Nancy Drew, to this day)
    Fantasy novels
    Some of the classics
    Murder mysteries
    (lots more on the list that I can’t think of, off the top of my head)

    Tried but can never finish

    Anna Karenina
    anything by Charles Dickens (Go ahead, judge me)
    again, lots more on the list that i can’t think of, off the top of my head

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      The thing is, this one is erotica. And the exploration about that is problematic at best. Ugh, I don’t now what makes me read this book in the first place.
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      So, if you really must know, it’s… *whisper* When All the World Sleeps by Lisa Henry.

      Now I really need to hide. *blush*

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