Dream Date - Sinclair Smith - 5 Stars - [Point Horror Classic]

Point Horror Classic

Dream Date
- Sinclair Smith -
*****

Katie is shy, a pretty little wallflower that wants to grow, blossom into the beautiful girl she longs to be, she also wants nothing but to fall in love with the right guy, have that whirlwind romance that rivals storybooks. One night when she sleeps, she meets Heath Granger. A handsome bad boy with an attitude to match the slick hair and leather jacket. He is literally her dream guy, but when he keeps appearing in her dreams, and becomes more possessive, more dangerous, the more Katie starts to think, he isn't her dream guy after all.

Katie is like a butterfly; pretty and flighty. Her voice is clear, her character like any girl was in those years of school. At some point in a girl's life, they want to meet that bad boy, they want the motorbike, leather jacket, slick hair, dangerous attitude. Heath Granger was the persona of that very fantasy. Naive Katie falls for him, his allure. The more Katie sleeps, the stronger Heath's hold over her becomes, soon enough parts of him start to appear in her reality and it blurs the lines between dreamworld and real life.

This book was definitely quite the chiller. Dreaming is a state in which we feel safe, nothing can hurt us. In this book, Sinclair Smith has taken the only time you feel a hundred percent safe, and made you feel vulnerable, scared to even close your eyes for fear for your own life. Like in her other books, at first the love interest is introduced as being great, amazing, one of a kind and the best guy ever. As the pages turn you start to see the cracks in their personality, the dents in their shining armour that is starting to dull. I think Sinclair Smith can write very interesting characters in a very realistic way.

Dream Date is one of my favourite Point Horror Classics. I remember reading this one in the corner of the library and that night wasn't sure if I wanted to go to sleep. Remembering that, brought back the same doubt. Would I bring back a force from the dreamworld if I slept? I still believe that toying with things from the imagination can be risky, and Sinclair Smith definitely thrives on writing those sort of boundaries, that she breaks so well.