Dreamhunter & Dreamquake

I'm not usually a Sci-Fi reader, but I enjoyed this duet of books by Elizabeth Knox. Hope you enjoy. The first is Dreamhunter.


The Place is where dreams originate; dreamhunters enter it, capture dreams in their minds, then return to "perform" them for the masses at the Rainbow Opera palace. The novel centers on 15-year-old Laura Hame, whose father Tziga is the legendary dreamhunter who discovered the Place as a young man. Laura is about to have her "Try," a coming-of-age ritual which will test her sensitivity to dreams. She succeeds and, a few days later, her father vanishes. Laura ventures into the Place to find him, but instead receives a letter from him, confiding in her the essence of the Place and saddling her with a terrible mission-to clear up a mess of his own making. Knox's fascinating story imagines the intersection of a haunting dream-world with a gritty real world. A Regulatory Body oversees dreamhunters as if they were mundane laborers, maps point out the exact spots in the Place where certain dreams reside, and an industry emerges to sell eager customers the exact dreams they seek. And what Laura learns about how the government really uses dreams (especially in prison reform) makes for biting commentary. This fully imagined world will surely lure readers back for multiple readings.

And the 2nd, Dreamquake.

In the second book of the "Dreamhunter Duet" Laura Hame is carrying a nightmare. Believing she is acting on her father's last wishes, she over-dreams her Aunt Grace at the Rainbow Opera, a dream palace where people can share in the dreams caught by Grace Tiebold, and shares the nightmare Buried Alive, throwing some of the most important people in Founderston into terror. Laura believed it was her father's wish to let the world see the dreams used to keep prison laborers in line. But when she learns her father is actually alive, she and her family, with the help of her sandman servant Nown and beau Sandy, begin to plan how to bring about changes in the ways in which dreams are used. But when Laura makes a stunning discovery about the true nature of The Place where dreams are caught, she also makes a discovery about herself and her future that shakes her to her core.

Thanks again to B & N for the pics and storylines.