Of course, I know what this book is a YA fantasy romance, but I do feel that the romance aspect could have been more realistic or at least not thrown me off so much had Nora been dealing with the events around her more appropriately. I get that she’s a teenager, and hey, someone liking you is great, but I also think that she was in need of grief counselling, not a date. Because of this I found it really hard to relate to Nora. Her friends are violently murdered, her sister missing, her whole life is being torn apart and yet… a guy finding her attractive seems to matter so much more to her. The events unfolding around her would have been traumatising to say the least, and I cant believe she would be flirting instead of trying to process how horrendous the things that were happening to her. Nora really didn’t act the way someone in her situation would. Unfortunately, I felt let down by the execution. I say this to prep you for just HOW excited I was when I read the synopsis. I wrote part of my dissertation of Hoffmann’s ‘Der Sandmann’, have (badly) written and read so many stories about dreams and adore Neil Gaiman’s ‘Sandman’ with an extreme passion. I love anything to do with the concept of dreams, Sandman and Nightmares. The premise of Dream Keeper was fantastic.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an eARC of this book.
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