Dreamland (reissue)
by Sarah Dessen
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Author: Sarah DessenEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-05-11
ISBN: 0142401757
Number of pages: 256
Reading Level: Young Adult
Publisher: Puffin
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Book Review: Absolutely Stunning
Summary: 5 Stars
This book moved me in a way I had never felt before....
The story focuses on Caitlin, a teenager living in the shadow of her older sister, Cass, until Cass runs away from home. Suddenly Caitlin finds herself at a loss without her sister, whilst being the victim of her mother's fussy attention and also forgotten about in the tumult of her sister's disapperance. As a book about the tensions and love between sisters, 'Dreamland' is wonderful enough and I found the novel spoke right to my own experiences of sisterhood.
However the parallel story takes off when Caitlin begins dating Rogerson, a drug dealer, who is unlike anyone she has known before and has many family problems of his own. It is not long before her relationship with Rogerson begins to become damaging and he begins to take his anger out on her. It is this story and the way that Caitlin manages to hide his abuse from everyone she knows that makes the book so powerful. I think that to understand why people in today's society put up with abuse is the key message in the novel, and although I think that I would never remain in a damaging relationship, I never found myself siding against Caitlin's decisions to remain with Rogerson, which in my opinion illustrates the phenomenal persuasive power of Dessen's work.
This is 100% the best of Dessen's books so far and deals with a problem rapidly increasing in everyday society, which teenagers should read about and be aware of.
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