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Sleeping Together

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Loved it! 😍

A sci-fi induced romance filled with interesting characters, witty banter, sensitive subjects, and a creative and intriguing plotline.

What first caught my attention with this one was the beautiful cover. Yes, I am an absolute sucker for a pretty cover. Well done on the beautiful cover design! And then I read the synopsis of the book, and I was immediately intrigued. A story about a drug that makes it possible for two people to meet and connect in their dreams. Interesting premise!


The whole story starts off with Vanessa’s baby/pregnancy nightmare, and I thought that was a good way to have that character’s anxiety and uncertainty come across to the reader. Vanessa’s dilemma of being in a relationship where the love is strong, but they want different things is oh so relatable to many.


I loved the fact that Altan is an Asian character. Yay for diversity! And the relationship and dialogue between him and Vanessa were one of the key elements to this story that made it so enjoyable to me. There was humor that had me giggling, sex (not very graphic) that made it slightly steamy, a horrible boss that made I want to jump into the book and punch the guy’s face, mental health issues that are important to address, romance that wasn’t too cheesy, and a pageturner of a plotline that had me up later than I should have been.


Kitty Cook has written the dream state of the characters so well that it all comes very easily to life as I was reading.


The characters are relatable and we do get to know both Vanessa and Altan quite well throughout this story. I didn’t find myself completely obsessed with them, but I was very invested in their story and with the mystery of how the Morpheum drug was actually working, and how it would impact the people using it.


Sleeping Together is an incredibly creative, intriguing and interesting story that touches on some sensitive subjects and has a slight element of science fiction to it that I really liked. I feel like I still have a lot of questions, and that these characters still have a lot more story to tell, so finding out that this is the first book in a series was definitely a pleasant surprise.


Highly recommend if you want to read a different kind of romance. And now, the waiting for book two begins.


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Writer, YouTuber, traveler, bookworm, and all around creative soul.

The Baby Nightmare

About the author

​Award-winning author Kitty Cook is a book chef based out of Seattle specializing in salty heroines, spicy plotlines, and semisweet endings that hit the spot. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times and Salon.com under a different, less ridiculous name. view profile

Published on March 06, 2019

Published by Brass Anvil Books

80000 words

Contains mild explicit content ⚠️

Worked with a Reedsy professional 🏆

Genre: Romance

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