Nicole Wolverton

Nicole Wolverton's The Trajectory of Dreams has a ton to offer from the start: the concept is brilliant, the cover art is stunning and there are promises of twisty goodness. I picked it up hoping to get trapped in Lela's mind and have a difficult time getting out. Unfortunately, rather than riding along with the narrator, I felt myself picking her apart and ended up dissatisfied with the end. While I think Wolverton's plot and writing is quite sound, I so wish the synopsis on GoodReads (and possibly the book's blurb?) hadn't mentioned Lela's mental disorder. Without the mention, I would have been able to create more possible scenarios as I was reading and may have been more surprised by the ending of the novel.… (más)

Right from the get-go, the extremely unreliable narrator, Lela, is clearly NOT RIGHT -- and I kept turning page after page, following her descent, finding myself worried for my own sanity. What was real? What wasn't? I thought I knew, and was fooled several times.

The explosion of the Challenger was a moment that I remember pretty clearly from when I was in 8th grade (ironically, the age of my own boys), and I know that many people were affected by the disaster -- but not quite in the same way as the main character of this book. The way in which this situation warped her, was fascinating.

The Trajectory of Dreams was well-written and a great read.

{I downloaded this is an e-book from NetGalley}… (más)