The Dream Alchemist
Bryn Llewelyn spends his life strung out on too much caffeine, fighting sleep at every turn. He can barely hold down a part-time job as he lurches from day to day, perpetually exhausted. He is trying to avoid Somnus, the dream world where people like Bryn—dreamwalkers—roam during their sleeping...
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Bryn Llewelyn spends his life strung out on too much caffeine, fighting sleep at every turn. He can barely hold down a part-time job as he lurches from day to day, perpetually exhausted. He is trying to avoid Somnus, the dream world where people like Bryn—dreamwalkers—roam during their sleeping hours. Bryn has been dreamwalking since he was child. He’s never found navigati
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ASIN: B073RM5MP1
Publisher: Joanna Chambers Books
Pages no: 235
Edition language: English
Series: Somnus (#1)
When the sun goes down, their passion awakens…and so do their nightmares. Somnus, Book 1 Centuries ago, a man with Bryn Llewelyn’s dreamwalking ability would have been a shaman or a priest. In this time, he’s merely exhausted, strung out on too much caffeine and too little sleep. Sleep means descent...
The world building is great. The story drags at times though. And I would have liked more relationship building. This was a lot of insta-lust followed by love. Very little nonsexual interaction.
An interesting and imaginative read, although I had a few issues.The story: It's our world, but there are those who exist who can "dreamwalk" or when they sleep, they enter the dreamworld of Somnus, lucid and having powers, while drone-like zombies mill around (that's us when we're sleeping.) The fi...
This was a great read and I am looking forward to the next installment. I didn't dig the world-building and the whole dream-scape thing so much and this is why I was a bit sceptic at first. I didn't start to love the dreamy thing, exactly as I expected. But what happened was a very nice romance....