-
Your next favorite book
is waiting.
Franny and Sam are each other's entire world. So what do you do when your world ends? Frozen's Jennifer Lee and Lunar New Year Love Story's LeUyen Pham deliver a tour de force young adult romance with a supernatural twist.
Falling in love is supposed to hurt. That's what Franny and Sam, two cynical teenagers raised on tales of heartbreak and loss, have come to understand. Yet when they fall for each other, they find the reality of love is something else entirely: it's electrifying, all-encompassing, and easy. Theirs is a love that can conquer anything…perhaps even death.
But Franny and Sam's quest to stay together―no matter the cost―soon blurs the line between reality and fantasy, and their shared dream threatens to turn into a nightmare.
"A striking and viscerally affecting tale of love, loss, and letting go." ―Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"This is a slow, lovely, and thoughtful story about the power of love versus the finality of death, and readers will be moved by the emotional journey." ―School Library Journal (starred review)
"Breathtaking. An immersive and hopeful story that will incite both heartache and radiant joy." ―Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"This hypnotic take on Orpheus and Eurydice celebrates first loves, withstands the toll of grief, and embraces healing." ―Booklist
"Beautiful and necessary. I needed to read this book. And probably you do, too." ―Craig Thompson, author of Blankets
This information about As I Dream of You was first featured
in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly "Publishing This Week" newsletter. Publication information is for the USA, and (unless stated otherwise) represents the first print edition. The reviews are necessarily limited to those that were available to us ahead of publication. If you are the publisher or author and feel that they do not properly reflect the range of media opinion now available, send us a message with the mainstream reviews that you would like to see added.
Any "Author Information" displayed below reflects the author's biography at the time this particular book was published.
Jennifer Lee is the Academy Award-winning writer and director of Disney's Frozen and Frozen 2. She earned a Tony Award nomination for Best Book of a Musical for her stage adaptation of Frozen. She also co-wrote the screenplay for Oscar-nominated Wreck-It Ralph, as well asthe story for the Academy Award-winning Zootopia. She served as Chief Creative Officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios from 2018 to 2024, when she began work on Frozen 3. A lucid dreamer herself, Lee and her family split their time between New York City and Los Angeles.
If you liked As I Dream of You, try these:
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why…
Your guide toexceptional books
BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.
