Sleep, Alice

Three came into Alice's world. Siv – a bloody witch from the Black Forest. Ing – a talented surgeon who, by a ridiculous accident, lost a patient. Yen – a blind boy who constantly repeated one word: Reckoning!. There was a certain connection between them, stemming from the interworld – a mysterious place where the girl found herself in dreams. Alice helped each of them to foresee the future, but she did not know why this role was destined for her. Only when she meets a boy with the same gift will fate reveal the riddle of dreams. And it will become clear: there are doors of the universe that are better left unopened… The interworld, paths of fate, hidden knowledge, prophetic dreams, and bloody rituals – Freedom bursts into the Russian-speaking segment of Young Adult literature with brilliant mythic fantasy from Russian writer Alex June! The novel entered the Top-10 of the shortlist rankings of the Animedia Co literary contest New Start and is now hitting the wide book market. Should you trust your own dreams? Yes, if they return every night. Alice works as an administrator in a hospital and in her dreams finds herself in a special place, where she meets Siv, Ing, and Yen. They live in different worlds, but only Alice can read their fate. A bloody witch, a workaholic surgeon – how are their lives connected? And who is Alice herself – a prophetess of fate or merely a puppet in its hands? The novel is a true kaleidoscope of plot fragments, scattered across the pages, where each of them is a key to the coveted door, hiding the main secret. Alice, what are your dreams about? The story is completely unique, intertwining motifs of Slavic mythology, mystical dark fairy tales, and urban fantasy. You haven’t read anything like this before! In tempting fate, we often become victims of the paradoxes of existence. The novel Sleep, Alice reminds us: a string of tragic coincidences is not at all accidental. Do you remember the movie The Butterfly Effect and Ray Bradbury’s story The Sound of Thunder? The chills run down your spine even from this story. You can never be sure of what series of events you set in motion with just your real…