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Emerald City Dreamer Dreams by Streetlight Book 1 eBook Luna Lindsey

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Emerald City Dreamer Dreams by Streetlight Book 1 eBook Luna Lindsey

Excellent story which is very NOW. The author's grasp of fae lore is quite impressive, and she weaves her story without violating any of its principles.


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Emerald City Dreamer Dreams by Streetlight Book 1 eBook Luna Lindsey Reviews

This story is good, it has a nice plot and pace, and the characters come across as very real. The faerie mythology and snippets of historical context felt lovingly researched and detailed. Though the setting seems a bit sparse, it's done well enough to be there without being distracting.

I got a little lost in the beginning, because the story switches point of view between four different characters Jina, Sandy, Jett, and Ezra. Their lives all interconnect, yet Ezra felt like an odd man out, even when I understood his purpose in the story. The more I read, the more I cared about Jina. The rest all seemed secondary to her, and while their stories were somewhat interesting, seeing their perspectives muddled the story for me. Perhaps that was the point, as it's difficult to tell the good guys from the bad guys for most of the book. When it finally does settle out, there's still some niggling doubt.

The end bothered me. Without offering spoilers, everything was generally fine until a climactic confrontation between Jina, Sandy, and Jett. The story takes us into a strange semi-dream sequence that essentially fixes everything. It felt forced and a bit silly when compared with the weighty, grave nature of everything leading to that moment. That major plot arc deserved to have more time spent on its climax, and the three characters deserved to have a more satisfying, real resolution. It's still resolved, though, and has a good setup for the next book.

Despite the ending, this book did provide me with several hours of entertainment, and I recommend it to folks who like urban fantasy with a literary bent. This is a study in self-destructive behaviors and the people who love them. So to speak.
I was afraid at first this was going to be a human-hunters-only tale with the fae solely framed as monsters/bad guys, but the story definitely unfolds into something more sympathetic and complex on all sides, including a starcrossed romance between one of the hunters (who is a "dreamer", I suppose the eponymous one of the title) and one of the fae.

The influence of ideas from Changeling the Dreaming seems pervasive to me, which may put some off, but I was fine with. For example, the concept that human creativity generates "toradh" or "aisling" which fae feed off of (glamour in Changeling terms); the power or force of fae magic in general is referred to as glamour, not just a specific tighter meaning of illusion; there are good and bad ways of taking glamour from dreamers, only taking what is given freely or instead "Rending" (in Changeling there are Reverie, Rapture, Rhapsody and Ravaging); and an otherworld called "The Dream" which overlaps in some places with the mundane world, but also goes much deeper (cf. Changeling's world of "The Dreaming").

The book uses the term "faeborn" to mean fae spirits born into human bodies, an idea which may sound familiar to real-world otherkin, some of whom use the same word. I wonder if it is coincidence or whether the author found it online and decided to use it.

One thing that annoyed me is that the various spells characters (mostly Jina) utter are all on the level of bad children's doggerel. I am not sure if this is a weakness of the author or done intentionally to represent that they are not very good at it, but it kind of made it difficult to believe they would have the power they do in-universe. (And if Jina writes songs for her band that are at all popular even in an indie-scene sense, should she be bad at this kind of thing?)

All told, I am definitely interested to read more in the series.
I met the author while we were both volunteering for Norwescon--I had already seen the bookmarks with the cover art and blurb and was thinking the story sounded like a great romp. As a fledgling indie writer and artist myself, I was intrigued. I do like good writing. And this book looked like just the ticket.

It was all that and more. The characters are real multidimensional people, even the fae--not cardboard cut-outs. Just enough information comes into play that one gets the feeling they are living and breathing folk. Not all are as they seem, in the end, and there is in them, like any people, layers of good, of mundane, of selfish and of unselfishness, and like any people, they operate from their pain and make both good and bad choices. And she manages to paint them without unneeded words and details, a talent not every writer has.

The story--well, it was a page-turner. As a Seattleite it was fun to see her mix the real Seattle flawlessly into her fae Seattle, using real people and places so seamlessly that one who frequents some of those places (or has in the past) might be forgiven for peering around corners and hoping to spot one of the faeborn. I'm greedy, me. I want more, so will be waiting eagerly for further tales from this delightful writer.
Excellent story which is very NOW. The author's grasp of fae lore is quite impressive, and she weaves her story without violating any of its principles.