Dream Student

by J.J. DiBenedetto

Overview

Sara Barnes has her life totally under control. All she has to worry about is college exams, Christmas shopping, applying to medical school—and what to do about the cute freshman who has a crush on her. And everything is going according to plan, until the night she starts dreaming other people’s dreams.
It’s bad enough that every night is a theater of her friends’ and classmates’ secret fantasies. Worse yet are the other dreams, the dark ones featuring a strange, terrifying man committing unspeakable crimes.
As the nightmares increase, Sara’s life becomes a blur of waking and sleeping, of terror and urgency. Because if she was given this dream-sharing gift for a reason, it must be to stop the killer madman she’s come to know all too well. But how can she stop him when she’s just a student, and they’re only dreams?

Dream Student is the prequel to the Dream Doctor Mysteries

Other Books By JJ Dibenedetto:
The Dream Doctor Mysteries (all ten books!)

Betty and Howard's Excellent Adventure

The Jane Barnaby Adventures (all three books to date!)

Mr. Smith and the Roach (coming soon!)

Finding Dori (Welcome to Romance)

Product Details

BN ID:	2940044622265
Publisher:	J.J. DiBenedetto
Publication date:	07/01/2013
Series:	Dream Doctor Mysteries , #1
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	124,222
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

J.J. (James) DiBenedetto was born in Yonkers, New York. He attended Case Western Reserve university, where as his classmates can attest, he was a complete nerd. Very little has changed since then. He currently lives in Arlington, Virginia with his beautiful wife and their cat (who has thoroughly trained them both). When he's not writing, James works in the direct marketing field, enjoys the opera, photography and the New York Giants, among other interests. The "Dreams" series is James' first published work.

Editorial Reviews

2015-08-24
College junior Sara Barnes starts seeing into others' dreams, leading to romance and tracking down a killer, in this first installment of a paranormal suspense series. Sleeping in her dorm room, Sara Barnes is surprised to turn into a cheerleader, applauding a boy. She realizes that she is experiencing the dream of the boy, who looks familiar. She then enters a scarier dreamscape of an older man violently dragging a young girl into a room. A somewhat shy pre-med student, Sara soon shares these latter, more frightening recurring visions with Beth, her beautiful, supportive psychology major roommate. She suggests a consult with Dr. Ritter, who runs the sleep lab on campus. Before that happens, however, the girls go out to a nightclub, where Sara spots Brian Alderson, the boy from the first dream. Emboldened by already knowing he likes her, Sara, a junior, approaches the shy freshman, and they become romantically and sexually involved. When Sara then goes to meet Dr. Ritter, she sees a newspaper clipping and learns that the girl she dreamed about has just been murdered. Rattled, she then starts dreaming about the killer's plans for his next victim. With the help of Brian and Beth, Sara focuses on recalling key details from her nightmare to ferret out the killer's identity and whereabouts. Author DiBenedetto (Dream Home: Dream Series, 2014, etc.) has created a highly entertaining concept in the saga of Sara, which he has developed in previous books. Sara is rather amusing about herself and her newfound abilities, especially when also enduring the humorous visions of her classmates. "I don't want to know why Jackie down the hall is dreaming of giant ants," she bemusedly notes. DiBenedetto also introduces a host of secondary characters with potential, including Sara's pesky younger brother and Brian's suspicious mother. Rather surprisingly, however, Dr. Ritter quickly disappears from the story, and some sequences, such as Sara's Christmas visit home, drain momentum. A promising launch of a charming female lead with a nifty paranormal gift.

Kirkus Reviews