The author takes us on an exploration of grief, the will to live, love, and ultimately, what might await us as we die. Many parts were movingly written and others, including the various scenarios of life as dreamed by the main characters, were just confusing. The ending was both appropriate and predictable.

Thanks to NetGalley and Crown Publishing for the ARC to read and review.

Wow oh wow, there are some books that you feel blessed to have stumbled across and they absolutely blow you away. This is one of them, the best book I’ve read this year!!! I felt every emotion you could feel, this one should be read slow and savored.
Samuel, Eddie, Maddie and Henri were a wonderful cast of characters. I haven’t read a book like this before, but I became so invested with all the characters, I’m glad I took the chance. My mother passed away a year ago in a very short timeframe and if she was able to dream during her last few days and see her life replayed, feeling the love for her family and remembering the best of her memories, I can only smile and be thankful.
Samuels pajama party, Henri’s fathers blue boat, Edwina’s love for her father, and Maddie’s story, I will remember them all for a long, long while. What a thought provoking love story, this is one that will make me a better person due to the time I spent with this crew, and more thankful for my many blessings.
Samuel absolutely stole the show, I fell in love with that young boy at hello and the ending was perfect, could not have been done any better. I almost felt my mother touch my shoulder and wish me well, she would have also loved this book.
Highly recommend!!! I absolutely loved it, will be reading this again real soon. I was given an advanced copy from Crown Publishing through Net Galley for my honest review, this one gets high 5*****’s.

This was a book like no other that I have ever read. It was happy, sad, hopeful, scary, certainly sending me on an emotional roller coaster. Interesting bunch of people all thrown together, fighting for their lives. What the world in a coma might be like. What death might be like. Quite heart-wrenching and thought-provoking.

I was able to read an ARC of this book, so I want to thank NetGalley and the publisher for allowing me to read this. I loved this book. It was the first I've read by Nina George and will read her in the future. The characters were relate-able and the plot was well conceived. I loved that the characters were able to visit each other in their dreams. I've often wondered if this is something that could manifest in the real world. I will recommend this book to my patrons. Thank you.

This book started out great, started dragging in the middle and had a pretty disappointing end. The main characters both being in a coma can be confusing sometimes. It was a great concept and beautiful writing but it just didn't appeal to me.

I like the premise of this book, I just couldn’t get into the rythm of the prose. I just cannot slog my way through it. I think it could be a great story.

I gravitated towards The Book of Dreams mainly because of the cover. Once I looked at the description I was excited to begin reading! Some parts were slow but overall I really enjoyed this story. I appreciate that it is told through the perspective of the three main characters. I felt this was a great way of understanding each characters personal outlook and how that contributed to the greater story. I was surprised but satisfied with the ending of this book. I think Nina George did a wonderful job of exploring the space between life and death and I am excited to read her other novels.

I liked the writing of this book. But just finding it a little pointless in the end. If you are looking for a happy ending this isn’t it. The author does acknowledge this in the end notes but it’s just not for me in my current head space.

I think fans of Nina George will love this book. It is told in alternating points of view and will probably make you at least teary eyed. It is moving and is intertwined with family issues a d drama. I would recommend it and will definitely read it again.

I would like to thank Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with a copy of this book free of charge. This is my honest and unbiased opinion of it.

this was an absolutely beautifully written, moving, thought provoking book. fabulous and ufnorgettable characters, it's one i will be thinking about for quite some time.

Henri Skinner, ex-war journalist, is on his way to meet his son.  How could he not, after receiving an email inviting the end to a lifelong estrangement?  This time, he's going to do the right things.  He's going to get to know the teen he helped create, he's going to let himself be known... and for once he isn't going to run away.  Life, though, has other ideas.  As he crosses a bridge he sees a terrible accident.  A little girl falls from a boat and is being swept down the Thames.  Jumping in, he rescues her and brings her to safety only to have an accident of his own.

Samuel Noam Valentiner doesn't know how to feel.  All his life his mother has told him what a sorry excuse for a human his father is, but he still felt like they should know each other.  And so he sent a simple invite to his school's Fathers and Sons Day.   Now Henri is in a coma.  Part of him can't help but feel tenderness for the man who was coming for him at last, along with a deep seated curiosity.  Coming to the hospital every day is especially hard for Sam because he is a synesthete.  He can see noise and emotion.  They have certain colors.  Still, the only other visitor Henri has is someone named Eddie.  How can he leave when he just found his father?

Eddie was finally getting herself together and creating a post-Henri life with her lover Wilder.  Henri didn't want her, didn't love her.... they hadn't seen each other in years.  So why was she sitting in the hospital being told her ex-lover put her down not only as his emergency contact but the one to have Power of Attorney over his affairs if anything should happen?  Does she owe him any loyalty?  Can she even handle having him back in her life- even comatose?  It doesn't matter.... she loves him still and so here she is.

Told in three viewpoints this is a gorgeous story about love, life, decisions and regrets.  How far does one go for love and friendship?

I am charmed....moved... wrecked.  Nina George has an ability to create characters and scenes that follow you, haunting your thoughts.  They are well developed, interesting, and uniquely damaged.  You find yourself thinking about them, worrying over them, caring for them the way one does for a close friend.  Seriously, I don't feel like George gets the chatter she deserves at all- why isn't the whole bookish world obsessed with this author?  Why aren't her release days treated like holidays- off work today for Nina George Day!  Can we make this a thing?  Let's make April 18th, 2019 Nina George Day!

Can you tell I kind of liked this book (and the other two I have read of hers)?  They aren't always the most popular- some of the content will break your heart, lives get messy- but they are flawlessly executed.  I have been lucky to get ARCs of all of them, and ended up buying them all because I loved them and was desperate to share them.  This one will be no different.  There are pieces here that will break you.  Hours later, I am still shattered.  I was up in the early morning hours reading while ugly sobbing (my cat was seriously alarmed).  It isn't one of those fun fluff pieces, that's for sure.  It's gorgeous, though, and so... so worth it.  For me, this is a definite five star book.  I will definitely be ordering the hardback copy.

On the adult content scale, there's language and sexual content.  It's not terribly explicit, but it is..... creatively descriptive.  Even though one of the characters is thirteen, and I feel like Sam would appeal to the YA crowd, this book is most definitely geared toward adults.  Let's give it a five.

      I was lucky enough to receive an eARC of this book from Netgalley and Crown Publishing in exchange for an honest review.  My thanks!

Captivating story, a little unbelievable at times. Very likable characters,. A good "No brain, fluff type" book. Good for reading on a rainy afternoon!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an advanced reader’s copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. The story is told through three different characters’ viewpoints. This a beautifully written and magical story. Nina George’s fans will be delighted with her latest novel.

I love this author, her books are always so interesting.
Henri Skinner, a man in a coma, after saving a young girl and then having been hit by a car.
Eddie, a love from the past, who could never forget Henri.
thirteen year old Sam, who is Henri's son and who is a synesthete and who never really knew his father.
Maddie ,a twelve year old girl who is unresponsive after an accident where she lost the rest of her family.
These are the main characters in this story.
The books deals with a lot of emotions and points of view, when all of these people come together at the hospital.
Eddie and Sam try and get through to Henri, hoping to wake him from his coma and Sam also finds out about Maddie and tries to also bring her out of her self imposed oblivion.
It is a story about what goes on between life and deaf, beautifully written showing us all of the different possibilities that could exist. It is a trip through the characters pasts and a look at the present and hopeful futures. It transcends mind barriers.
I highly recommend this book.
I would like to thank NetGalley and Crown Publishing for the ARC of this book.

This charming tale in The Book of Dreams by Nina George, is a remembered romance as she watches over him in a coma and maybe both of them, during those 45 days, relives that romance as well as a son watching over a father in a coma builds up a relationship of the 13 years they haven't know each other. The book begins with Henri, a man who has left a woman he loved and never knew the son he had, dives off a bridge to save a young girl fallen from a boat only to be crashed by a car when he gets her to the shore; he then lives in a coma for 45 days. In those days Eddie his love and Sam his son watch over and spend all their time with Henri. And, through dream like states relates and comforts them. This book is written with such visuality and filled with such emotion you become wrapped up in their places and their lives from beginning to end. "For an instant I feel the wind on my face and taste the salt in the air. I brush a curl from Eddie's brow. She smiles as if she can feel my touch. Maybe she can. There's more between life and death than we can tell from here." Thank you #NetGalley #CrownPublishingGroup #TheBookofDreams

A beautiful read a book that draws you in a book that makes you think of your life’s choices .What if you had chosen a different path a different life.A book that engrossed me immediately Henri in a comma his son his girlfriend.Highly recommend this novel.#netgalley #crownpublishers.

Loved this book. Such a wonderful sweet story. The writing was beautifu. Can't recommend this enough.

Started out great, slogged through the middle, and the ending was so very disappointing. After sticking with the characters for that long the choices made by Henri made no sense. What a let down.

There is a great tone to the start of the book and I think the author had a good concept but ultimately this book just let me down. The ideas initially put forth by the author ended up a total mess.

This book started out great, slowed down in the middle to the point that I almost abandoned it, then picked up towards the end. I ultimately enjoyed it but it was a harder read than it should have been. I loved some of the characters, especially Sam and Eddie.

To quickly recap, Henry is Sam's father and is in intensive care in a coma. Sam is a brilliant child on the autistic spectrum and has never met his father but knows who he is through his mother. He sneaks away from school and sits by his bedside and meets Eddie, his father's former lover, and the woman he deeply loves.

The story explores what it's like to be a coma from Henry's, Sam's and Eddie's point of view, which is fascinating. The writing is amazing but it does ramble in places. I recommend this book.

Thanks to Scribner and NetGalley for the ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you NetGalley and Crown Publishing for the ARC

The Little Paris Bookshop has been on my TBR for a while now, and I think after reading this book, I have to read it sooner than later.

I've always spent time looking back at the decisions made in my life and wondering what would have happened if I made a different choice. Would things be different. That was the pretense of the plot. This was a beautifully written book that stayed with me after the last page.