The Dream Hotel

The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami presents a chilling near-future where your dreams betray you. deeply original, Archivist Sara Hussein returns home only to be detained by a government agency relying on data from her sleep to predict violence. The novel’s strength lies in its eerily plausible tech dystopia and Sara’s quietly powerful resistance—but some readers find the pacing uneven and the ending abrupt. This is a smart, unsettling exploration of surveillance, identity and freedom—thought-provoking and immersive, though not flawless.

3.5*