The storyline really intrigued me and was a really good take on an end of the world book. However, it was extremely discombobulated throughout and everytime I latched onto the story and characters, it jumped to another perspective, sometimes unnecessarily. I wasn't satisfied with the ending which also seemed a little disjointed to me. I will give this two and a half stars rounded up because the writers are good, the story itself just wasn't it for me.

Thank you to Netgalley and St. Martin's Press for this ARC.

Well, the cover was striking enough to attract attention, but then the plot summary wasn’t too shabby either.
The end of the world that comes and steals people away in their sleep. Apocalypse ZZZZZ.
Whatever you do, don’t fall asleep.
In this new world order, the sleepless reign. The insomniacs, anyone with a sleeping disorder. Not so much reign as desperately struggle to survive, but hey at least they get a chance.
This book features a vast cast of characters in a at-times-dizzying switch up of narratives, but the main one follows two friends and people around them as they try to make their way to safety.
It seems this was an audiobook first or maybe some sort of podcast and maybe that’s what caused the overwhelmingly multi-player manic approach to this apocalypse, but it works, it all ties in.
There is a certain trippiness to the plot, too. The elephant/whale thing…very trippy. And that ending. It’s out there. But the book is fun, exciting, original, and well worth a read. Recommended. Thanks Netgalley.

“The Edge of Sleep” had me on the edge of my seat (lol) the whole way through. I had no experience with the story prior to reading, so I was really intrigued by the description of the plot. The story started off so strong when focusing on Dave’s past and present experiences with sleep. The supporting characters in the main storyline were great, but it was some of the secondary storylines that lost me a bit.

I found myself rushing through the last third of the book, and the pay off was not as rewarding as I was hoping it would be. I still had a great time reading it though. The writing is great and the concept is a refreshing take on the apocalypse genre.

When I first picked up The Edge Of Sleep I didn’t know what exactly to expect since I didn’t know much about it. This book has an interesting and unique plot that kept me intrigued the entire time. I loved the authors’ descriptive writing style and found myself constantly curious as to what would happen next. I feel like I can’t say much about this book without spoiling it, but if you like science fiction/horror books you may want to give this one a try.

What if the only way to stay alive was by not falling asleep? How long could you last? Days, hours? Would it be enough time to figure out not only what caused this deadly condition but how to fix/stop it? I’m thinking not since the closest someone who might be able to help is a nurse who is quickly falling asleep on her feet.
The characters we spend the most time with are Dave, Matteo, Linda, and Katie( I really liked all 4).A secondary plot belongs to Eli and Millie, but I didn’t feel as if I got to know these two nearly as well. It’s a pretty shall we say normal story( if you can consider dying from sleeping normal 🤔)with an unknown illness/ disease or something killing people if they fall asleep. Until it isn’t and it veers into uncharted, unexplainable territory, at least for me.
I still haven’t figured out the last few chapters, so I’m eagerly awaiting publication day when there will be people I can talk to about this book. For now all I can say is that I loved the story until about the 90% mark, then I was totally lost. I hate it when that happens!