Reviews for Before you sleep

The average rating for Before you sleep based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-12-10 00:00:00 David Fabela Well, this took forever and a day to read, because every time I got going, one of the protagonists (and our occasional narrator), Karin, would do something humiliating to herself to attract the attention of some random dude. And I would be so embarrassed for her that I had to stop reading for a few days or week. Other than that.. I don't know. Ullmann maybe tries a little too hard, at times? The stone metaphor, for example, maybe it goes on a tad too long? Still, the writing is interesting, and I am a sucker for this type of "families be awful" story, so three stars it is.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-05-29 00:00:00 Saandra Mohr An amazing book that is wonderfully funny and surreal and tackles a lot of bleakness head on without ever becoming bleak. I enjoyed the narrative style, jumping back and forth and moving from the real to the imaginary without warning. The family dynamics were fascinating, though I have to say I liked the part of the book set in Norway better than the part set in New York. Not that the part in New York wasn't good, it was, but the book worked even better when Karin was telling us about herself and people she knew and things she had experienced. Overall I really really liked this book.