An imaginative novel about a two teenage boy's journey through high school. When Darren Bennet meets Eric Lederer, there instant connection even though Darren can sense there is something different about Eric. They start to create a movie using Darren's artistic talents. Eric begins to trust Darren as friend and decides to share a secret about himself that no one else knows: He doesn't have to sleep. Darren thinks it is a gift and sees the world in a new light. Eric represents possibility, because if he able to exist, imagine what else could exist. When word leaks out about Eric's thing, he and Darren find themselves on the run or Eric will become a science experiment. Is it the government chase them or something Eric has created with his gift?While this novel is imaginative it is lacking in other areas. I found it very hard to get into the book and once it started getting good it went bad again. The whole plot of this story is that these two boys become friends and Eric shares his secret with Darren. Then eventually someone finds out about his gift and they have to runaway. In the story it mostly focus's on Darren's thoughts, which are useless information and the movie TimeBlaze that the boy's are creating. The boy's didn't even start running until 3/4 of the way through the book and the ending was very abrupt.
I read this book a few months ago and had similar thoughts. There's so much potential for the idea, but I didn't think it was done very well. It didn't seem like anything was happening until the end, and then suddenly it was over.
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