The Waking Dreamer
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J.E. Alexander
Emmett’s dream is always the same. Tingling with half-forgotten memories, he stands in an unknown room surrounded by mirrors, curio cabinets, and nesting dolls. A painting, Belshazzar’s Feast, hangs on the wall, its disembodied hand numbering the King’s final days. Then comes the stranger, the...
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Emmett’s dream is always the same. Tingling with half-forgotten memories, he stands in an unknown room surrounded by mirrors, curio cabinets, and nesting dolls. A painting, Belshazzar’s Feast, hangs on the wall, its disembodied hand numbering the King’s final days. Then comes the stranger, the serpent-wielding young woman with the glittering amber eyes. Her words are always the same. Emmett will soon save her. Then the supposed hero awakens to his unremarkable life, awaiting the next night and the same maddeningly familiar dream. Seventeen-year-old orphan Emmett Brennan remembers nothing of his past—not the boiler room in which his needle-ravaged mother gave birth to him, nor the Druids who tenderly delivered him. He can’t remember the cabal-summoned Revenant that clawed itself from shadow to hunt him, or why his mystical midwives hid him from the necromantic creature. Approaching adulthood, he is unaware of the dark forces that still search for him or the mysterious sentinels who secretly protect him, but on the eve of his eighteenth birthday that will change. The Revenants will find him. Only the young woman from his dreams can help him confront all he was once made to forget. Together, they will brave the nightmarish landscape Emmett’s waking world will soon become.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780615876511 (061587651X)
Publish date: September 22nd 2013
Publisher: Mechanical Owl Media
Pages no: 343
Edition language: English
Series: The Waking Dreamer (#1)
Im going to mark this as a DNF.
So here’s the dealI am game for any type of fantasy world.Magic.Paranormal.Supernatural.Dreamlike.And whatever the fuck is going on in this book. (Which is kinda a mix of all 4).To my understanding, it is of the magical sort. The Druids and the Bards. (I had the craving to play Skyrim the whole time...
Sadly, I wasn't able to read this book to completion. Though a very interesting concept, I found the writing to be dense and difficult to work through. It just wasn't for me. :(