You're either into the immediate attraction/lust at first sight trope or not. It's just how it's gonna be with this book. For me I never love it but can tolerate it depending on delivery. I didn't mind the delivery here.

Slight, non-specific spoiler but mainly trigger warning that i feel like is important to note because though the summary of the book mentions scenes of abuse I feel the need to add so folks can properly prepare cause I sure wasn't: The sinister feel of a heavily DV coded scene about 75% of the way through almost felt out of place in a book like this one had been up until this point, tone-wise. And this is after a clear, specifically child abuse scene.

Overall this is more like a 2.75 rounded up for PB. It was better than I expected but don't need to run to anything else written by Hibbert.

Another TW: chronic illness

What a concept. As a gal who absolutely loves her sleep, this is a nightmare scenario for sure.

I liked the plot of Sleep Donation a lot. The mysterious, science-y-ness of an insomnia epidemic was done really well as well as the added personal, political and financial nuances that could come with a situation like this. I defintely was left wanting a more fleshed out story though. I could have done with more on the ramifications sleep donors might face overtime and even a whole extra segment or two on the Night Worlds would have been fun. But that's the price of a novella sometimes I suppose. A good amount was still packed in. Russell did great with making Trish the conflicted character she was too.

On another note, I just loved that there were pictures! Not enough adult novels have visuals these days imo. Twas definitely a nice surprise treat especially reading via e-reader so I didn't get to do one of those quick flip of all the pages to know in advance.