Shattered Dreams

Sixteen-year-old Trinity Monsour wants nothing more than to live a normal life. But that isn’t as easy as it seems. Trinity is different. She is special. She sees visions, and for those she’s seen, it’s already too late.

Trinity arrives on her aunt’s doorstep in New Orleans with virtually no knowledge of her mysterious heritage. She begins settling into life at a new school and even starts making friends. But all too quickly her dreams accelerate; twisted, terrifying visions of a girl locked in a dark room. And when the head cheerleader, Jessica, goes missing, Trinity knows she has no choice but to step forward with what she’s seen.

But people believe that Trinity has information about Jessica’s disappearance not because of a dream, but because she is involved. She is kind-of dating Jessica’s ex-boyfriend, Chase, and Jessica did pull a nasty prank on Trinity. Revenge seems like the likeliest scenario.

Nothing prepares Trinity for the dark odyssey that ensues while searching for Jessica, including the surprising romance she finds with Chase, or the shocking truths she learns, not just about the girl who has gone missing, but the past that has been hidden from her. (from Goodreads)

So I didn't quite get this book. There were a ton of different little plots, and I didn't really figure out which one was the main plot. 

The book was creepy, to put it simply. There was a lot of talk about disappearing girls and psychopaths. 

It reminded me a bit of Darker Still, the way the plot was just meshed together with a bunch of random things that didn't really have any correlation. 

There were also a few characters who just showed up randomly. Bethany, Jessica's sister, didn't really do anything. I would have liked it if she had more of a role in the book; her emotions could have been shown a lot more. 

But this book did keep me up reading until I finished it, even if I was counting the pages until it was done.

The romantic aspect of this book didn't bother me. I think it was because Chase and Trinity had done stuff before the book started, so the romance wasn't instant. But Chase was sort of stalkerish - he investigated along with Trinity and everything, but it was never really explained why. So some more clarification would have been nice.

There wasn't really an explanation of why this was a 'midnight dragonfly' novel. As a matter of fact, there wasn't really an explanation about Trinity's powers and why she had them, what exactly they did, where they came from, etc. 

This book had the potential to be great, but the plot was too confusing. The ending was really odd, and who the bad guy was and why he did what he did was never really explained. 

The biggest problem with this book would have to be the lack of explanation of things. I assume more will be explained in the sequel, but I don't know if I'm going to read it or not.