SuitabookDistant dreams
Alicia Rades
- Reading
- Consider reading alongside the young person, especially near the murder and nightmare sequences. Pause to ask what Kai knows, whom she can trust and whether investigating alone seems wise, without revealing the mystery’s resolution.
- Themes
- Extraordinary ability and responsibility: Kai’s spirit leaves her body during sleep, and this ability makes her a witness to a murder. She then has to decide how to respond when others do not believe her. The premise gives Kai’s ability an important role, but it does not establish whether the book presents her choices as responsible, reckless or morally necessary.
- Belief, evidence and trust: Kai reports what she witnessed, but the police do not believe her, leading her to pursue the mystery herself with Collin. The situation foregrounds the difficulty of acting on knowledge that others reject, though the book’s judgement of Kai’s private investigation is unknown.
- Romance amid danger: Kai teams up with Darla’s brother, Collin, while searching for the killer. The book?s stance on this remains unclear.
- Worth knowing
- The book includes a brutal murder, a dead classmate, nightmares and attempts to identify a killer. These elements may make parts of the story tense or upsetting, although the detail and intensity are not established.