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The Dream Traveller: Dark Rising: The Dream Traveller, Book 1
Book one of the Dream Traveler Series.
Girvyn is unaware he possesses a unique he can enter people's dreams, identifying him as a Dream Traveler. Girvyn aspires to follow in his uncle’s scholarly footsteps. Yet, his future veers off course when a dream entangles his fate with a forest tribe ravaged by demons, led by the rogue Traveler, Crane. Crane has long schemed to merge his nightmarish realm with the Waking world, a plan exposed by a lone survivor's harrowing tale. Crane's vulnerability lies in his physical form; destroying it would disperse his demonic legions. While some advocate for a global military alliance against him, others see hope in young Girvyn, who controls a mysterious and deadly gateway. However, uncle Laglen fears Girvyn is not prepared for such a grave role.
Girvyn must master his emerging abilities to navigate a destiny that binds him to an epic struggle between dreams and reality. With the world teetering on collapse, can Queen Amelia of Rathnell and her sworn protector, Elaya Faith, persuade other nations to join forces to assault Crane’s northern fortress, or will the fate of the waking world rest on the shoulders of a young scholar?
Girvyn is unaware he possesses a unique he can enter people's dreams, identifying him as a Dream Traveler. Girvyn aspires to follow in his uncle’s scholarly footsteps. Yet, his future veers off course when a dream entangles his fate with a forest tribe ravaged by demons, led by the rogue Traveler, Crane. Crane has long schemed to merge his nightmarish realm with the Waking world, a plan exposed by a lone survivor's harrowing tale. Crane's vulnerability lies in his physical form; destroying it would disperse his demonic legions. While some advocate for a global military alliance against him, others see hope in young Girvyn, who controls a mysterious and deadly gateway. However, uncle Laglen fears Girvyn is not prepared for such a grave role.
Girvyn must master his emerging abilities to navigate a destiny that binds him to an epic struggle between dreams and reality. With the world teetering on collapse, can Queen Amelia of Rathnell and her sworn protector, Elaya Faith, persuade other nations to join forces to assault Crane’s northern fortress, or will the fate of the waking world rest on the shoulders of a young scholar?
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December 26, 2025
I really enjoyed this, a fantasy novel combining almost 'futuristic' magic with intriguing and intricate politics, and a broad range of convincing characters. I was a little worried in reading the opening that there were so many factions and nations and players introduced close together, fearing I would not remember some of them, and yet the author weaves from initially complicated-seeming threads a compelling tale of scheming, betrayal and conflict, of hidden magic exposed, of rivals forced to ally against a greater evil.
The story is driven forward by a host of conflicts, political, personal, even romantic; all underlain by a form of magical ability that has remained hidden from the world at large, known only to its practitioners. But the reader learns of dream travelling along with young Girvyn, who displays a prodigious emergent facility, much to the surprising of his mentor uncle, Laglen. And yet it cannot be enough to resist the great evil that the travellers are pitted against, can it?
If I have a complaint, it's that I must now wait to read the second book! I found this highly enjoyable. I read the audiobook version, which is not available on this platform to review, but I must mention the exemplary narration by the excellent Peter Kenny which is, as ever, a joy.
The story is driven forward by a host of conflicts, political, personal, even romantic; all underlain by a form of magical ability that has remained hidden from the world at large, known only to its practitioners. But the reader learns of dream travelling along with young Girvyn, who displays a prodigious emergent facility, much to the surprising of his mentor uncle, Laglen. And yet it cannot be enough to resist the great evil that the travellers are pitted against, can it?
If I have a complaint, it's that I must now wait to read the second book! I found this highly enjoyable. I read the audiobook version, which is not available on this platform to review, but I must mention the exemplary narration by the excellent Peter Kenny which is, as ever, a joy.
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