"The Worlds Behind Her Eyelids" by Alexa Lee is an awesome escape into the power of imagination and dealing with tough realities. The main character, Grace, is a teen stuck with a super controlling and critical mom. To cope, she dives into her daydreams where she meets Mitch, a rugged treasure hunter with a knack for taking in strays. Mitch invites Grace to join him on a wild quest for a lost artifact, and her adventures begin.

Grace’s double life is super relatable. In real life, she’s just trying to survive her mom's negativity, but in her mind, she’s living an epic adventure. The switch between her boring reality and the thrilling world with Mitch is seamless, and it makes you wonder if maybe daydreams can be just as real.
Mitch is a fascinating character who brings a lot to Grace's imaginary world. He’s tough but caring, guiding her through the dangerous and mysterious parts of their quest. Their growing bond adds a lot of heart to the story, making you root for both of them.
What I loved most is how Alexa Lee blurs the lines between Grace's imagination and her reality. The book dives into some pretty deep stuff about why we escape into our minds and how that can be both good and bad. Grace’s daydreams start out as her safe haven but soon turn into a complicated web that she has to navigate.
Overall, "The Worlds Behind Her Eyelids" is a gripping read that combines adventure, fantasy, and a touch of reality. Alexa Lee’s storytelling is vivid and engaging, making it easy to get lost in Grace’s worlds. If you’re into stories that explore the depths of imagination and the struggles of real life, this book is definitely for you.

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Entertainingly written YA novel about a young girl who escapes form her real life into her fantasies where she adventuring a `Professor Langdon mixed with Indiana Jones`-style treasure hunter. ( )

The book was vivid and imaginative! I appreciate the wide variety of situations our heroine could dream up for herself.

Unfortunately i had really hard time getting into the story and did not end up finishing. The beginning where she just slipped into her mind was fuzzy and anticlimactic and thus I had a hard time viewing the story as anything other than a lonely little girl with a wild imagination which lost my attention easily.

This book brings together some interesting concepts. Grace finds out that she can project herself into different worlds by accident, a move that is prompted by desperation to escape her home life where her parents fight constantly and her mother is self-absorbed.

These projections start out innocently enough with Grace being pseudo-adopted by an older treasure hunter named Mitch and propelled into the dangerous but thrilling world of treasure hunting. Along with that world, she discovers a few others, some of them terrifying and one with potential implications for later on in the series.

In between her forays into these worlds, the reader gets glimpses of her "real" life and the reasons why she is so desperate to escape. As the book progresses, it becomes increasingly hard for her to remain in reality.

A thought-provoking read that offers the opportunity for plenty of exploration. There are some minor editing errors in the book but nothing that detracts from the story. Be aware that while this is marketed towards teens, there is language, some peril, and some brief nudity mentioned towards the end. ( )