CSFF Blog Tour Day 3 - Dreamtreaders

I have to be honest. At first I had a hard time getting into the book. It starts off with great action, and that's fine. But I didn't like Archer, the protagonist.

One of the things that threw me off was the way Archer talked to himself. It didn't seem natural, it was kinda weird. I also didn't like the way Batson keep calling him "the Dreamtreader" instead of Archer.

I know that sounds petty and stupid, but it didn't flow for me. I made a commitment to read this though, so I pushed on. And it didn't take long to suck me in, so it could've been worse.

As Archer navigates through his normal day you get to know him better. There is still some stilted conversation and sometimes he talks to himself at weird times, in weird ways, but that's not enough to take you out of the story.

There's also the new kid, Rigby, who is an interesting fellow. When reading the synopsis I had my thoughts of what Rigby might be, but I am happy that I was wrong. As the story goes I made some guesses and was right about some, wrong about others.

As you speed towards the conclusion there isn't much time to think. There's a lot happening and some twists that you don't see coming, at least I didn't. I do hope to see more of Master Gabriel in the future, who I have my own thoughts about but I will leave them unspoken to see how things progress.

Being someone who has always had very vivid dreams and is really fascinated by the subject, the title caught my eye. Batson shapes the dream world in a way that seems realistic (if a dream world can be realistic), though it doesn't mirror mine. The setup for the second book leaves you wanting more and i am curious to see where the characters go. i can't say more than that. As Riversong would say, "Spoilers."

*In conjunction with the CSFF Blog Tour i received a free copy of this book.

You can buy the book at Amazon.

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See what others on the tour have to say:

Beckie Burnham
Jeff Chapman
Pauline Creeden
Vicky DealSharingAunt
Carol Gehringer
Victor Gentile
Rebekah Gyger
Christopher Hopper
Jason Joyner
Carol Keen
Jennette Mbewe
Shannon McDermott
Meagan @ Blooming with Books
Rebecca LuElla Miller
Nissa
Writer Rani
Nathan Reimer
Chawna Schroeder
Jojo Sutis
Steve Trower
Phyllis Wheeler