Thanks to netgalley for allowing me to read this arc.


If you liked the “Mara Dyer” series, you’ll love this book. Even though it’s a YA book, as an adult, I enjoyed everything about this. The characters connect through their dreams. Even if paranormal reads aren’t your thing, give this book a shot. You’ll be pleasantly surprised.

Lucid By Kristy Fairlamb
Lakewater Press Pub Date; April 23, 2019
********five star book ***five star book***** five stars

Lucy lives a lonely existence on the precipice between life and death. She possesses the horrifying ability to resurrect real-life tragic events in her nightmares, reliving over and over, as if she were there, the last few moments before the victim takes their final breath. Car accidents, drownings, plane crashes – Lucy has seen it all. No one understands what it’s like living death by night and fearing sleep by day.

When Tyler Sims and his family move to town to escape past traumas, Lucy is drawn to him. The two of them are linked through their dreams, and with Tyler’s trust and friendship, hope for a brighter future returns to Lucy’s world. But Tyler’s presence awakens something else in Lucy, and with this new knowledge she will be forced to make impossible decisions. Decisions that will change history, and the future.


Why I voted this author for Best Debut YA author of 2019:
" If you admitted you loved deeply, a certain vulnerbility existed in the proclamation of love; It said I need you, don't ever leave me ,you are my world. I'd once thought love weakened a person, but it didn't. It was the loss of love that brought people to their knees." Lucy Piper

Lucy is possibly the most unique character created for the young adult genre since Blue Sargent in Maggie Steifvater's The Raven Boy series. We all have a purpose in life, Lucy Piper's purpose is through the power of her dreams she can undo tragedy. Fans of the Netflix Sense8 series will adore the interaction Lucy is able to have within her dreams with her boyfriend Tyler., can you imagine a first kiss so real you wake feeling the tingles? How about Tyler was dreaming the same dream, and felt the same way? There are points in the story I was afraid Lucy would break because she experiences fire, plane crashes, and car crashes. She experiences getting lost in the woods and freezing. Carl Jung once wrote that he saw his wife in dreams long before they met, and scientists never have harnessed the brain power that is working within a dream, what if we could unlock our true potential? If you liked The Butterfly Effect, Sense8 or the Matrix ; you should grab this book once released! April 23!!!!!!!
There was nothing I disliked with this story, but I do hope Tyler has a more active role in book 2, as I imagine Lucy's fear of travel must end so she can go find him in Sydney! Will she get him to enter her dreams to help her stop tragedy? Or will there be a wrinkle that keeps them apart for ever?