Review: The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker

I requested this book on NetGalley, mainly because it had an endorsement from the author of Station Eleven, and because the premise of a virus that causes people to fall into an indefinite sleep sounded interesting.  I was a bit disappointed.  I liked many of the characters, including Ben, a new father, young Sara, and Mei, an isolated college student.  But I found all the “dreamy” language a bit tedious, and this story of an epidemic in a small town didn’t cover much new ground.

I also felt a lot of storylines were dropped or never explained, like the students ...