This is a story about Gabriel who is struggling to adjust to his new life at Columbia. His social life revolves around marijuana and he is very insecure and self-conscious and sexually frustrated. He has nightmares when he sleeps and he can't stop worrying when he's awake. In the end, he has a dream that inspires him to start writing for his classes, thereby becoming more productive and presumably more confident and secure.
I really like the way you get inside the character's head. His thoughts always seemed convincing and realistic. The paranoid train of thought when he was high at Win's was right on the money. I thought that party was hilarious just because of how real it was. I like the complex back story that the character has. Even though we as readers don't really understand all of it, we get that he has some complicated history and that it is affecting his life in a very real way.
An issue I had was distinguishing between the girl in his dreams and Tori, the real life girl. It's apparent that he has mixed feelings about Tori and that he is stuck in the friend zone with her no matter what he may decide, but putting the scene where they get high right up against his next dream and only describing the voice in the dream as girlish automatically connected the two in my head. I know that the dream girl isn't supposed to be Tori, or at least I don't think she is, but it was a confusing transition at first.
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