Dreamhunter: Book One of the Dreamhunter Duet
by Elizabeth Knox
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Author: Elizabeth KnoxEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-02-17
ISBN: 0312535716
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Square Fish
Book Reviews of Dreamhunter: Book One of the Dreamhunter Duet
Book Review: In Dreams: The Rainbow Opera (Dreamhunter)
Summary: 5 Stars
I can't remember how I found this book; I believe I ran across one of the author's other titles at work, thought it looked interesting, and checked out the rest of her back catalogue. However it happened I'm very glad that it did, because this is the best thing I have read in a long, long time.
Fifteen-year-old Laura and her cousin Rose inhabit a world very much like our own - they have Jesus, 'The Mill on the Floss', demotic Greek, hockey. They also have the Gospel of St Lazarus, and the Place: a pocket of land, a fold in the universe, unmeasurable and inaccessible to all but the very few and most elite - the Dreamhunters. The Place is a world where dreams are marked at map locations; Dreamhunters cross the border at one of two points, sleep in a specific grid reference, catch the dream that has its existence there, and take it back to share with a paying audience. For this is 1906 and, in this world, dreams are what cinema became in ours - more, because each dreamer experiences the dream as their own. There are dreams of healing, dreams of adventure, dreams of peace, dreams of romance - Rose's mother, Grace, specialises in these - and, although Laura is initially unaware of this, there are nightmares, too, and Laura's father, Tziga Hame, the Dreamhunter who first stumbled (literally) upon the Place some twenty years before, has his own dark trade in these. When he vanishes, he leaves Laura this legacy, along with a duty to repair the damage he's done. He also leaves her a strange companion to help her with this burden.
We end on a shocking climax; this is part one of a two-part story, continued in 'The Dream Quake', which I am impatiently waiting for the postman to bring me any ... day ... now.
Dense, complex, and beautiful: I don't have the words to do justice to this story. I only wish I did.
It isn't just the storyline that sets 'The Rainbow Opera'/'Dreamhunter' apart: there's something unique and distinctive about its voice that I can't define. The only thing I can think of is that the author's from New Zealand and that perhaps her background and experience colour the narrative in a way that's slightly alien to my understanding.
This is one of the best and most original fantasies, YA or other, that I've read in years. In a world where the mundane, the badly written and the run-of-the-mill dominate the bestsellers charts, how is it possible that I only stumbled upon this wonderful book by accident?
Summary of Dreamhunter: Book One of the Dreamhunter Duet
?It is like nothing else I?ve ever read. The characters are so real, you?ll feel like you know exactly what they look like and how their voices sound and what they would say or do in any given situation. More than that, you?ll want to hang out with them. Then the world is so amazing and unique. You will want to go there. You will want to walk into ?the Place.? And you will want to sleep in a dream opera.??Stephenie Meyer, The Twilight Saga
Laura comes from a world similar to our own except for one difference: It is next to the Place, an unfathomable land that fosters dreams of every kind and is inaccessible to all but a select few, the dreamhunters. These are individuals with the ability to catch larger-than-life dreams and relay them to audiences in the magnificent dream palace. People travel from all around to experience the benefits of the hunters? unique visions.
Now, fifteen-year-old Laura and her cousin Rose, daughters of dreamhunters, are old enough to find out if they qualify to enter the Place. But nothing can prepare them for what they are about to discover. In the midst of a fascinating landscape, Laura?s dreamy childhood is ending, and a nightmare is beginning.
Dreamhunter is a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
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