🧡 Dwindling resources have forced humanity to sleep most of the time. That’s the intriguing premise that first unfolds . As someone who (day)dreams of more shuteye, the idea of months of the stuff is tempting, but not if it means waking to the grim, desperate world posed by Jamie Mollart. I do love visiting such places in stories though.

💚 The two narrators are constant threads throughout this story; characters on either side of the divide imposed by The Sleep: A sleeper and a janitor (a caretaker of sleepers). Beyond this, the story shifts and changes constantly. At first it has the feel of a space opera, then an uprising. Some parts felt like a good old fashioned Bonnie and Clyde tale.