Make sure you read book one.
I received this book via NetGalley to give an honest review.
So I was very well debating on if I should give this book a 3 rating or 4, it isn't that I didn't like I sorta did but it didn't really call to me too much.
Now when I requested this book on NetGalley the description is what called out to me though I didn't know the book was book two. I would honestly say you may want to read book one as you will get a backstory of the characters and powers. I think I would have done better with understanding everything if I had read book one.
What I liked about the book was the dream walking I think that is the coolest thing ever to be able to do. Ling and Henry are able to go to sleep and walk around in their dreams which eventually leads them to solving what is causing a sickness dubbed the Chinese Sleeping Sickness. The setting of the book is in the 1920's which is a cool era and one I don't believe I read anything in that era before though some of the words were weird to be used such as instead of saying okay it was replaced with "jake"
There is a mystery within the story not only with the sleeping sickness but also with Sam who is trying to figure out what happened to his mother and what is Project Buffalo. I see answers to Sam's questions being answered in a book three if the author continues. It seems all the characters are intertwined in some way or another. Such as Evie knows Jerico, Sam and Theta who is dating Memphis the poet, Theta is best friends with Henry who meets Ling but has a lover named Louis. They all intermingle and what they are seeing and going through come out in each chapter though you are far from confused as it all works out together.
The way the dreamworld came together in the real world was a neat idea, who would have ever thought that you could get stuck in a dream and die? I bet not the folks that went to sleep dreaming happy thoughts.
Why I gave this book a 3 rating it took forever for anything to come together for me. I kept telling myself things would get better at 30% then 40% and so forth and very soon it all came together the mystery in the sickness and how it was solved though it took a bit of time coming to it. It seems we spent a lot of time with Evie and her show and a bit of romance between characters. I enjoyed more of Henry and Ling's part in the story than the other characters. Henry has a great sense of humor and Ling is more a serious person but you can tell she is slowly starting to lighten up around Henry.
I guess I was expecting a bit more of a fast pace story which that falls on me and not the author.
If you enjoy fantasy and the era of the 1920's then I highly recommend this book to you.
