Initial Impressions 6/22/14: Hm. I really don't know. 3-3.5 stars. It was going to be 3.5 but the ending was a bit unclear? This is another one of those times where I just feel dumb like I didn't get it. Sigh. 
 Anyway. I read the book in one day... It was really gripping and I was always curious what was going to happen next! It definitely held my attention but felt a bit lengthy. I wanted a little bit more to happen close to the beginning than the middle -- just to set up what the big mystery was and what Rosie would discover. I also wish we had gotten a bit more detail once we DO find out what it is. I got it, but I wanted to understand much more and have more interactions with the characters regarding the details. 
 Is this a stand alone? It ended feeling like there should be more books so I'm not entirely sure. (Oh okay, I looked up the book and Caragh O'Brien's website says it's a series. Okay, I feel a little bit better, but still.) 
 Hm. In that case... I'm curious to see where the series will go. I feel a bit better with the 3.5 star rating now knowing that this ending leads to somewhere else, but still wish it wasn't AS open-ended. 
 Full review posted HERE on The Book Addict's Guide 8/18/14: I have a bit of an obsession with books about dreams. I feel like there's really so much you can do with the concept and it's so interesting to see how authors play with the idea of dreaming and how it plays into people's everyday lives, so needless to say, I had some high expectations for The Vault of Dreamers! 
 I was interested to see where this book would go and when I started, I still wasn't 100% sure what the whole thing was about since I'm a notorious synopsis avoider to really allow myself to experience the most amount of surprises and twists possible. This really didn't affect my interpretation of the book in this case (sometimes I think books are about something completely different), but considering the fact that the book is called THE VAULT OF DREAMERS, I was really hoping the dreaming aspect would play a much bigger part in the book. 
 I felt like there was a lot of set up in the beginning in and in the middle which I was fine with... But I would have much preferred the plot to develop much quicker. The book is over four hundred pages long so to go for so long just anticipating what exactly the "vault of dreamers" really is and what that means, it just felt like a little too long to wait. From the synopsis, we already know that main character Rosie will already be a part of The Forge Show, an insanely popular reality TV show. I actually did like the aspects of what we see of The Forge Show and how it's run but at the same time, I kept wanting to know more about the dreaming aspect so while I wasn't not enjoying what I was reading, I was still waiting for something more to happen. 
 Once I finally did start to get answers... well, they weren't exactly what I was hoping for. The ending didn't quite go as I had hoped and it wasn't wholly unsatisfying but it wasn't quite what I was expecting. I think part of it was that I really didn't fall in love with Rosie. I liked her character and her personality all right but risk-taking somehow didn't seem like her style and somehow I felt like her personality clashed with how pushy and adventurous her actions were. I just felt like there was something missing to really make her feel real and so the ending just felt a little forced to me. It was also a bit confusing. 
 I only found out that the books is a series after I finished it (when I had started, there was no info on Goodreads or Amazon about this being the first of a series) so review pending, I had to go out and look (confirmed on Caragh's website) that it is in fact the first of a series. I have to say that the ending was a bit confusing, knowing it was a series or not. It definitely felt like the story was incomplete but even as the ending of the first book in a series, something just felt like it was missing. I actually re-read the last bit and was still a bit confused so I'm a little undecided right now whether to invest my time in the second book and see where the story goes or wait until other reviews are out and gauge what the general reactions are. Either way, I do have quite a bit of time to decide! 
 I think maybe I got myself a little too excited for THE VAULT OF DREAMERS but anticipation and hype isn't really to blame. I didn't dislike Rosie but she wasn't exactly a stand out protagonist for me. I liked quite a few of the other characters but no one else really quite stood out for me either. I usually enjoy a lot of world building in fantasies right in the beginning of the book, but when it comes to science-fiction, I'm more itching for plot and twists. There was a lot of info in the beginning of the book but not exactly what I was hoping for.