Fifteen by Jen Estes
Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
15 year old Ash dreams about her future public execution every night. In her dreams she watches as she is thrown to a pack of monsters but after tampering with her ancient dreamcatcher, her dreams change and she is now in the body of her future 30 year old self, experiencing her dream including the fear, confusion and pain. She finds that she now has the ability to subtly change her dreams, escape her execution and in doing so change the future.
At first I found Ash a little grating and had to remind myself that she was 15, as YA is not my regular genre it took a bit of getting used to. As the read hit it's stride I started to enjoy her character more, her sense of humour is dark and self depreciating and she is no whiny brat unlike her adopted step sister, Nadette. Nadette came across as rather one dimensional, she was purposely written as an unlikeable character and although this is set up for the future storyline I feel she could have been more complex and not just written as someone that readers are set up to hate.
There were some nice twists in the story and I liked how small changes that Ash made in her dreams caused big changes to her future. It did get a bit confusing when she started to sleep in her dreams and try to wake in her past to change what had already transpired. The future world was also not explained that well especially around the supernatural elements and how it all came about. This is part of a series though so I'm sure future books will be exploring this much more.
An interesting read that had a great concept, just needed to keep things a bit clearer with relation to the future world building.
Recommended.
