Blue is for Nightmares

Laurie Faria Stolarz
Llewellyn Publications (2003)
ISBN 9780738703916
Reviewed by Tabytha Joy (age 15) for Reader Views (8/07)


“Blue is for Nightmares” is about a girl named Stacey who goes on a mission to save her best friend Drea. Drea starts receiving prank calls from a guy she had started talking to when he had called the wrong number. After a while, the guy starts threatening Drea and saying that she is soon going to die. Then, Drea starts receiving short, but disturbing letters from the guy. While all this is happening, Stacey is having bad nightmares at night and has also started bedwetting. The dreams Stacey is having have to do with the death of Drea -- how it’s going to happen, when, and where.

Stacey turns to her dead grandmother for help. She contacts her grandmother through spells and witchcraft. Stacey also tries doing some spells to allow her to finish her dreams so she can find out who this guy is. She even tries asking her grandmother who the stalker is. But the grandmother cannot tell her even though she knows. It’s a part of the spell rules. Spells should only be used to guide you. They will not do the work for you. Will Stacey save Drea before it is too late?

Honestly, I didn’t care for this book. Not only was it predictable, but it also told you what was going to happen long before it did. Therefore, it made the book less interesting as you knew from the beginning what the ending was going to be. But, one thing I did like about “Blue is for Nightmares” is that all the characters are realistic. Anyone can relate to one of the characters. If I had to recommend this book, I would say it would be best for preteens as every word was easy to understand and the book may be more interesting to them.

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