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Opening a new fantasy trilogy from Hugo award winner Resnick, this novel offers an adventure through space and time as Eddie Raven tries to outrun the dark forces pursuing him.
Eddie Raven isn't quite sure what's happening to him--and he's in a race to find out before it kills him.
His adventures begin with a shooting in a very strange shop in Manhattan--but soon he finds himself the owner of a very familiar bar in Casablanca. By the time he adjusts to that reality, he's suddenly become one of several undersized people helping a young woman search for a wizard. And after confronting the wizard, he somehow finds himself in Camelot.
But as he rushes to solve the mystery of his many appearances, a larger threat looms. Because someone or something is stalking him through time and space with deadly intent....
Read Online The Master of Dreams The Dreamscape Trilogy Book 1 eBook Mike Resnick
"This book was- quite frankly- awful. Apparently the author has won a Hugo, which I guess in a world where Suicide Squad won an Oscar, I kind of believe, but you definitely wouldn't have guessed it by reading this book. It felt like a rough draft of someone's first novel, except usually people try a little harder for their first novels. I presume.
This book was confusing- jumping between alternate imaginary worlds and dimensions without any explanation, rhyme or rhythm. None of the rules are properly laid out, if there are any rules at all. A few reviewers have called it "dream logic" but that doesn't fly, because dream logic is generally beautifully written, surreal, and engaging. This book was bland, uninspired, and uneventful. Even the alternate dimensions are just cribbing off established stories. And this author also really seemed to hate describing anything. Like, nothing. Not the setting, not the main character's personality or feelings, not the various side characters or events. Its just: Eddie agreed. Lancelot said something. There was a monster. At one point, he literally says something to the effect of "a green monster appeared". Nothing else to ever describe the monster. And this is just one example of something that happens constantly throughout the book. It kinda felt like I was reading a children's book, but even lazier.
And the characters are even worse. The protagonist is Eddie Raven, and boy, a name that cool deserved a much better character. He sucked. I have no idea what he looked like, what he really liked, what kind of person he was. He loved Lisa, which we know, because he KEEPS mentioning it, but the writing is so clinical and cold it's hard to actually buy. He liked women in skirts(?). He also handled the going back and forth into different realms surprisingly in stride, which I honestly half-suspect was because the author couldn't be bothered to write in any dramatic tension or complex emotions. All the others characters were super one-note, including his mentor (I guess?) who was helping him for...reasons. His love interest, who is perfect and flawless and always nice. And the villain who...I guess exists? Barely?
The trip to Camelot was marginally more interesting, and earned the book a single star back. Some stuff was genuinely funny, and the side characters he encountered had a bit more personality. It's 100% not worth reading just for those bits though. I'm sure there's better Athurian fanfic online somewhere, which has the added benefit of being free. I'm honestly surprised by all the positive reviews. It's bad. Really bad. Don't bother."
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The Master of Dreams The Dreamscape Trilogy Book 1 eBook Mike Resnick Reviews :
The Master of Dreams The Dreamscape Trilogy Book 1 eBook Mike Resnick Reviews
- This book was- quite frankly- awful. Apparently the author has won a Hugo, which I guess in a world where Suicide Squad won an Oscar, I kind of believe, but you definitely wouldn't have guessed it by reading this book. It felt like a rough draft of someone's first novel, except usually people try a little harder for their first novels. I presume.
This book was confusing- jumping between alternate imaginary worlds and dimensions without any explanation, rhyme or rhythm. None of the rules are properly laid out, if there are any rules at all. A few reviewers have called it "dream logic" but that doesn't fly, because dream logic is generally beautifully written, surreal, and engaging. This book was bland, uninspired, and uneventful. Even the alternate dimensions are just cribbing off established stories. And this author also really seemed to hate describing anything. Like, nothing. Not the setting, not the main character's personality or feelings, not the various side characters or events. Its just Eddie agreed. Lancelot said something. There was a monster. At one point, he literally says something to the effect of "a green monster appeared". Nothing else to ever describe the monster. And this is just one example of something that happens constantly throughout the book. It kinda felt like I was reading a children's book, but even lazier.
And the characters are even worse. The protagonist is Eddie Raven, and boy, a name that cool deserved a much better character. He sucked. I have no idea what he looked like, what he really liked, what kind of person he was. He loved Lisa, which we know, because he KEEPS mentioning it, but the writing is so clinical and cold it's hard to actually buy. He liked women in skirts(?). He also handled the going back and forth into different realms surprisingly in stride, which I honestly half-suspect was because the author couldn't be bothered to write in any dramatic tension or complex emotions. All the others characters were super one-note, including his mentor (I guess?) who was helping him for...reasons. His love interest, who is perfect and flawless and always nice. And the villain who...I guess exists? Barely?
The trip to Camelot was marginally more interesting, and earned the book a single star back. Some stuff was genuinely funny, and the side characters he encountered had a bit more personality. It's 100% not worth reading just for those bits though. I'm sure there's better Athurian fanfic online somewhere, which has the added benefit of being free. I'm honestly surprised by all the positive reviews. It's bad. Really bad. Don't bother. - This is the story of Eddie Raven, who is a regular dude shopping in Manhattan with his regular girlfriend Lisa when they decide to get their fortunes read. Suddenly, and inexplicably, they get shot at by a random gunman, with a stranger taking a bullet for Eddie, and the girlfriend and the fortune teller getting shot. Eddie rushes to the hospital to see if she survived only to learn that there was no woman reported, and no woman came in with the stranger and the fortune teller. Strange!
He soon finds himself in his nightclub in Casablanca, which is familiar to him, but also very strange. Lisa shows up with no recognition for him, and says her name is Ilsa (this is Casablanca after all – characters named after cars appear as well, only instead of Renault and Ferrari, we have Peugeot and Maserati). He does seem to recognize that it is his club, and he knows the names of several of the regulars and knows his way around. He’s tasked with finding some traveling papers in the club somewhere before noon or else he’s stuck there forever.
When he does find them, he finds himself in Oz, and after further adventures there with Dorothy and the gang, he finds himself in Camelot. All the while, the stranger who saved his life is talking in his head, telling him that the Master of Dreams is coming for him. Shenanigans are abound!
This was a pretty quick read. It’s easily consumed in a day if you stick with it, and it is fairly fast paced. I found it a bit confusing from time to time, as it can be very strange sometimes, as you can imagine. It doesn’t necessarily help that we’re just sort of dumped into this one with no real explanation of what’s going on, either. However, with that said, Eddie is also thrown into this world with no real clue what’s going on either, so there is that. We’re not the only ones who have no real idea what’s happening here. We find out the details as he does.
Sometimes Eddie made my eyes roll. For instance, the story begins with Eddie and Lisa shopping on 5th avenue in New York, but one of the first things Eddie does is lament that women don’t wear skirts anymore. This immediately made me assume that this book takes place in perhaps the 1960s, as this seems a very archaic thing for a modern 20-something to say, and isn’t the only time he uses language that seems old-fashioned for seemingly no reason whatsoever. But then suddenly we were talking about DVDs and tablets and I was like… oh… this takes place in the present…. well then, uh… uh. It honestly low-key made me wonder the entire time I was reading if he was secretly a time traveler from the 50s or something because it seemed really out of place for a modern day 20-something from New York.
So, I had a bit of a rocky start with it, as you can imagine, but I stuck with it, as the premise was interesting. And in the end, I’m not sorry that I stuck with it, because when Eddie made it to Camelot, I found myself liking the story more. I don’t know if it’s just that I’m a sucker for Arthurian stories or what, but Eddie-as-Mordred wandering through Camelot trying to make friends with the Knights of the Round Table and trying to find Guinevere had me more into the story than anything up to that point.
So, all told, it was a fast-paced romp through a few fictional worlds that gets better as it goes, but still has a few parts that made my eyes roll in it. I didn’t end up loving it, but I did end up liking it a lot more than I anticipated I would after the first few chapters.
Thanks to the author as well as Berkley via NetGalley for the review copy. - This was an odd little book. I decided to give this one a try largely because of the cover and the fact that it is the start of a new series. I don't think that I even read the book's summary before diving in since I like to go into most books that I read as possible. Having never read anything by this author before, I didn't have a lot of expectations. This was a quick read for me but one that left me scratching my head at times.
This was a pretty weird story. I like weird so that wasn't a bad thing but it did leave me wondering what was going on more than a few times. Now that I have finished the book, I am still a little confused about the point of some of the stranger elements of the story. Even when the book is at its oddest, I found it to be very readable and was quite curious to see how things would end up.
This book was really imaginative. If you like retellings, this book drops into several very well known stories. These stories aren't quite the way most readers remember though. There's a stop at a bar in Casablanca, a trip to Oz, and some time in Camelot. I was more familiar with some of these than others but had some fun with each one.
The book did start out feeling pretty normal in Manhattan, with Eddie out shopping with his girlfriend, Lisa. I really wish that we had a bit more time with Eddie before he is sent off to different worlds. I liked his character and his sense of humor but I found myself really wanting to get back to the original story.
I am not sure if I will be continuing with this series or not. I am glad that I read this book but I don't know that I am all that eager to jump around through various world with Eddie again. Although I might if I am in the mood for some well-written weirdness.
I received a review copy of this book from Berkley Publishing Group.
