Book Review - ‘Dreams & Shadows’ - C. Robert Cargill
Robert Cargill is more well know as Massawyrm on AICN. He’s recently branched out in
other types of writing with the movie Sinister and also this, his debut novel.
‘Dreams & Shadows’ takes the idea that all the various faeries and folklore from around the world are real and all live together in a separate fairy realm. The story follows two human boys, Colby and Ewan who end up getting mixed up in it and each others lives.
Colby is a young boy who has a chance encounter with a genie and is granted his wish to ‘see everything’. This includes being brought to the fairy world where he meets Ewan, a young boy who was stolen as a baby and replaced with a changeling. Their meeting sets off a chain reaction that could change the whole balance of the fairy world.
I really enjoyed this book. It’s very readable and I’m a sucker for stories about folklore. I honestly had a hard time putting it down sometimes and flew through it pretty quickly. There are some issues with it. There are some points where it gets bogged down in long monologues but I guess you can kind of get away with it a little more in books. Unfortunately some of the monologues that are supposed to be deep are not quite as deep as they seem to think they are.
I still recommend it especially if you are a fan of urban fantasy. He signed a deal for two more books in this series and I’m looking forward to seeing what comes next.
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