This book has left me disturbed, but in a positive way! It really makes you wonder how much there is yet to be uncovered about the human psyche and us humans in general. Loved the setting of the story and the vivid imagery! A real page-turner:)

When I choose a novel to read, I’m not always consciously aware of all the elements that go into that selection. When I look back at why I chose The Anatomy of Dreams by Chloe Krug Benjamin; however, it’s clear that it was the subject matter – lucid dreaming. Dreams are pretty amazing things when you think about it. They can bring us joy or horrify us, help us work through life issues, and even inspire us to do great things. The Anatomy of Dreams isn’t one clear genre although it contains all th...

Eh... this wasn't a bad book at all. The writing was engaging enough for me to want to keep reading and Benjamin has some great descriptions of moments here and there. At the same time, I felt like the characters were distanced from me as a reader. Normally I am able to imagine what they look like or act like, but when Sylvia mentions what she looks like toward the end of the book, comparing it to her former self, it struck me that I never really had been able to picture her before. The book als...

The plot was very interesting, how far is too far in the name of science? It's the same question that arises when reading Frankenstein.Unfortunately, this book isn't as good as Mary Shelley's.Not that it was bad! It was actually a pretty good read, I enjoyed myself but I figured out what was going to happen around page 200. At times the story felt repetitive and it lacked character development. The positives were the ideas that the characters discussed & the tension that kept building up the fur...

(I got this book through NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review.)2.5 stars because I liked the concepts in this book, but found the execution wanting.The story bounces between a few time periods, allowing us to see what's happening in two "levels of present" (the first one being Madison, where Sylvie and Gave meet Janna and Thom) and two "levels of past" (high school time, then the beginning of Sylvie's involvement in Keller's research). I'm mentioning this because it can be a potential det...

This started out pretty dumb, and then it got a LOT dumber.

3/5starsI think this was a VERY ambitious first novel - luckily I know chloe benjamin gets better with her second! I think this has such a cool premise and such a fascinating story telling style, but it's simply a bit lacking. Not much truly interesting happens - it's a really good idea surrounding a pretty mediocre plot. I really wish benjamin would go further into magical realism like her premises promise but don't deliver on.

ARC received through NetGalley.Wow! I just finished this novel and I could tell that this is going to be one of those stories that will be on my mind for months, maybe years, to come. I normally get annoyed when people describe a book as "hauntingly beautiful" but I have to borrow this phrase for this story- the author does such an amazing job of drawing the reader close to the narrator, the main character Sylvie, right away. The story starts out at Mills, the boarding school Sylvie attended, wh...

sylvie's distant narrative was actually my favourite thing about the whole thing. if she were more involved i would have been really.....uneasy about reading this. plus i have thing for hindsight regrets. and the plot? so freaking silly. i mean you got dreams, you get the subconscious to play with and even a side plot of murder and allegedly unethical research going on and THIS is what you come up with? some sort underwhelming lucid freaking dreaming????? really?????? awful. the big reveal about...

I had just finished reading the Immortalists by the same author and thought I would check out her first book. Boy, has she improved! This book had way too much research lingo and not enough things happening to keep my interest. I would still highly recommend her latest book, though!

Was going to be a 2 but got a bit better.

I don't think I'll ever know what to feel about the big revelation in The Anatomy of Dreams, whether to be impressed or disgusted. Both, probably because hot damn, that's some unsettling and fucked up thing to do in the name of science and research.

I thought this book was going to be a lot better than it was. There was a lot of potential but, for me, the whole thing just fizzled. None of the characters were likeable and I never cared what happened to them. I just couldn't wait to finish to see if there was anything that would redeem the story. I think there was a lot that was unexplained as well. The relationship between Gabe and Sylvie never made sense and was never resolved to my satisfaction. Was Gabe actually homosexual and in love wit...

The Anatomy of Dreams follows Sylvie and Gabe as they go from boarding school together to working in a sleep lab at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, for their old professor, Dr. Keller. They are working on experiments with stages of consciousness in the lab so secretive they can't even tell anyone about them. Sylvie isn't even sure if they are ethical. They get entangled with their neighbors in relationships that become increasingly intricate and dangerous. Soon Sylvie finds herself rebelli...

Not really sure how I feel about this book. Read it all in one sitting. I didn’t like how it went but that feeling is part of it! Chloe Benjamin has this cliche-ascending ability to make me feel confused about “what is real”, this intense flirtation with the boundaries of paranormal/pseudoscience that feels totally believable & leaves me feeling kind of like the main characters at the end of both of her books I’ve read.

the book description is not good bc this book cannot be summarized. if u like: nonlinear narratives, capricorn female narrators, constantly having 100000 questions about what is happening, surrealism, questions of science/ethics, and frequent descriptions of the sun/moon - this is The Book for you. chloe benjamin if you’re reading this i love you and i could never read a science book for anybody else

Really liked the foray into the dream world. Author did her research. Lucid dreaming is an academic field I have long had personal interest in; like the protagonist, have a background in psychology. Feel like there was a lot of wasted potential because the dual timeline format what not executed well. Such great material, unfortunately made pretty confusing. 3.5/5 stars!

Meh. This book doesn't deserve a proper review for being as bland as it is, and RUINING SUCH A GREAT CONCEPT IN THE PROCESS. It really takes some skill to do that! The blurb sounded so incredibly good, so intriguing, and the cover art is to die for, I mean look at it, so beautiful! And yet, yet, I could see none of that in the actual book, and if this were WhatsApp I'd post about a thousand crying emojis at this point in mourning for the potential, for all that could have been. The whole book is...

In “The Anatomy of Dreams” debut author Chloe Benjamin muses over the influence of dreams, the need of sleep, and young adult maturing. Benjamin’s protagonist, Sylvie Patterson narrates the novel and begins the story in a boarding school in northern California. Sylvie is one of the serious students, but is attracted to one of the bad boys, Gabe. Gabe has a mysterious connection with the headmaster, Adrian Keller. Gabe inexplicably and abruptly leaves school, abandoning Sylvie causing her to have...

Cool subject! But the storyline could have been better I feel, it was just a lot of waiting untill the grand reveal