I'm struggling between a 3.5 - 4 star rating. The writing style for this book was a bit different right off the bat. I don't think I've ever read a book that was translated into English from another lanugage; maybe that's the issue? Regardless, the style of writing and the dialogue made the book have the feel of a historical fiction. I literally assumed this book took place 100 years ago, until they mentioned an iPhone. The main character, Liv, and her sister, Mia, had pretty sophisticated vocabularies for people not even in high school. I'm sure part of that had to do with the fact that their mom was an English professor, but it just felt a little odd. Aside from that, I loved the main characters in this book. Liv and Mia were clever, funny, and snarky. Their mom was amazing - so honest and funny; not like a lot of parents out there. (She actually reminded me of my parents a little bit!) I'm definitely interested to learn more about these girls and the rest of their new family in the next two books. I feel like Mia was an important character at the beginning and then faded away a bit as the book went on, which was a shame. The one "character" I didn't really get was Secrecy. The school has a gossip blog run by this Secrecy person (it felt like Gossip Girl). There were about 5 pages dispersed through the book that showed a little snapshot of the website with the gossip. I honestly didn't see the point of it. I hope there's a good reason for it in the later books! 
 Aside from the characters, I was a huge fan of the different worlds going on in this book: the dreams and reality. I didn't expect some of the events or main parts of the plot to be as dark as they were, though! That was a bit much for me but I'm excited to see what happens. The book itself was VERY introductory. I cut the first book in a series some slack because it often is more informational than action-packed, but this was definitely an extreme example of that. This book was purely setting the stage for the other two books in the series. I enjoyed reading it but felt like nothing was happening. There wasn't a lot of action at all; it was mostly explaining how things worked and learning about the characters. 
 The ending of this book was two things: shocking and rushed. There was definitely a twist at the end that I didn't see coming. However, the action didn't start building until there were literally 30 pages left in the book. I was basically anticipating a HUGE cliffhanger ending. There kind of was one, but not too bad. It left me wondering what's next and wanting to read the next one, however I'm not on the edge of my seat waiting for it. I liked the twist but the ending was incredibly rushed. As I said, nothing major happened until it was the very end. As a result, all sorts of things were packed into 30 pages. It wasn't developed enough so I didn't really have any time to react or think of WHY *that* happened. Aside from that, I was definitely expecting there to be some reveal about Secrecy at the end, or at least some inkling as to WHY this person even exists in the book. 
 Overall, this one teeters on the verge of 4 stars but I think is more like 3.5. I enjoyed it for sure, but it pretty much only set the stage for the next two books. There was no action...and then the ending was incredibly rushed. I'm excited for the next book but not completely dying to get my hands on it. 
 *Thanks to Around the World Tours for the ARC of this book!*