{"id":41931,"date":"2024-11-16T20:44:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T01:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=41931"},"modified":"2024-11-16T20:44:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T01:44:24","slug":"review-of-the-lost-dreamer-by-lizz-huerta-read-by-elisa-melendez-and-ines-del-castillo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=41931","title":{"rendered":"Review of The Lost Dreamer, by Lizz Huerta, read by Elisa Melendez and In\u00e9s del Castillo"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Lost Dreamer<\/em><\/p>\n

by Lizz Huerta
\nread by Elisa Melendez and In\u00e9s del Castillo<\/p>\n

Macmillan Audio, 2022. 10 hours, 52 minutes.
\nReview written November 5, 2022, from a library eaudiobook<\/p>\n

The Lost Dreamer<\/em> says on Amazon that it’s book one of a duology, so fair warning that there’s not much resolution at the end of this book — it feels like half of a story.<\/p>\n

But what we do have is full of rich world-building. Chapters alternate between two different teenage girls. Both of them are dreamers — at night, they experience “The Dream,” a world inhabited by spirits, where they learn truths about the waking world. When someone dies, they say they “returned to the Dream.”<\/p>\n

Indir, the first featured character, is part of a family of Dreamers, and she serves at the Temple of Night in the capital city. But after she dreams to answer a question for the king on his deathbed, her ability to enter the Dream disappears. Is she still a Dreamer? And then when the new king brings fire warriors to the city and seems hostile to Dreamers, they all fear that he’s ushering in chaos.<\/p>\n

Our alternating featured character is Saya. Nobody knows she’s a dreamer, because her mother won’t allow her to tell anyone. In fact, her mother uses Saya’s gift to act as a seer in the villages where they travel. But Saya begins to want to come into her own.<\/p>\n

Both of the girls’ stories increase in danger. The way they come together toward the end of the book surprised me.<\/p>\n

The Dream is fantastical, and both characters spend plenty of time there. The author does a good job conveying how the Dream and the world about it works. As well as making us worry about what’s coming to that world.<\/p>\n

lizzhuerta.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Disclaimer: I am a professional librarian, but the views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n

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