Book Review: Summoner of Sleep
By Elizabeth Suggs
What would you do if you could go back to your youth? The book Summoner of Sleep by A.I. Winters explores just that through a horrific fountain of youth and what humans will do to obtain that vitality.
Our main character, Ryder Ashling, has lost his job, wife, and home. When his neighbor gives him a drug that makes his nightmares seem real, he starts to doubt his sanity. And this is just the start of the book. Don’t worry it gets much weirder, like a town that doesn’t exist on any map kind of weird.
Winters does a great job writing three-dimensional characters and great descriptions. She paints intense and horrific monsters, which for me, is really important. Often, I find creature depictions come across as cartoonish, but Winters gives these the same time and space to develop into their own beastly selves as she does her human characters.
The story is engaging and had me keep turning the virtual pages. Definitely worth checking out!
Here are my favorite Quotes:
In their empty transformative screams, Ryder heard the pain of monsters who had sold their soul for heaven but instead found hell in their rancid, decayed skin.
She was like a bright star among ugly black meteors in the galaxy.