Finished: The Dreamers (Walker) Page-turning book about a mysterious virus that begins at a small college campus in California causing a freshman girl to fall asleep, unwakeable to her room mate, Mei, or anyone else. She's hospitalized and does not survive. Soon, other students on the same dorm floor are falling asleep the same way. As the town realizes the "sleep sickness" is a virus and is spreading very easily, it is forced to self-quarantine, even closing its borders to incoming or outgoing people. The book follows the story of the room mate, Mei, as she escapes the college quarantine and works to help all the people who are falling ill; a survivalist father and his two young daughters; a college professor; a husband and wife, new to the area, with their days old infant daughter; and one of the other young women from the dorm who had just had sex for the first time before falling asleep. Inside her, a baby grows as the young man who she slept with falls into his own bout of sleeping sickness. The strange thing about the sickness is that you can tell that the people are all dreaming by the movements of their eyelids and occasional arm movements. After a few weeks, and much drama where people drop at the most inopportune times, or where one father is shot trying to cross the barrier of the town, some of the people start slowly waking up. Some of the people die. And, some of the people keep on sleeping. The people who awaken have all had dreams of their past in detail, or what they believe is their future. The father of the new baby wakes thinking he's dreamed about a bunch of events that will happen in the future, only to have his wife tell him that everything he thinks is in the future, they already did in the past. The survivalist father has dreamed there will be a fire that destroys the town library, and sure enough, the library, where they have established a children's ward of sleepers, burns down. He manages to save his daughter who has fallen asleep. One heroic boy from the dorm floor saves the tiny newborn baby, but in doing so, he makes the choice to go for the baby first before Mei, who he has worked closely with and fallen for, and Mei succumbs to smoke inhalation. :-( At long last, everyone who doesn't die, wakes up...except for Rebecca, the pregnant girl. She sleeps through her pregnancy, contractions, c-section and her baby's first few months. She dreams that she has a son and goes through life with her son at various ages, very vividly, until she's a grown woman with an adult son. When she wakes up, all she can do is ask where her son is. She can't believe she's only 19 and has a new baby daughter. People eventually return to their normal lives, or as normal as can be, but everyone who fell into the sleep is profoundly affected. It was really surreal reading this book at this moment in time when we are facing this pandemic of the corona virus!