***In Her Dreams (Book 1) is a 2018 Whitney Award finalist***
So, I have this curse… I experience the memories of the dead while I sleep. One second I’m dreading that midterm in the morning, and the next I’m attending a ball that could be the movie set of an Austen or Bronte novel.
Pretty cool right?
Did you catch that I call it a curse?
See, not everyone lives a life full of joy, true love, and happy endings. Sure, I get to re-live the good memories. But I also get to experience pain, heartbreaks, and sometimes even death.
For a long time, I had zero friends so when I dreamed of Victorian-era Lucy (who just got engaged… eek!) I had an escape. And then Lucy met her future cousin-in-law, Andrew. **swoon**
My life felt less… tragic when the Lucy dreams started. Oh! And I met this new boy, Duncan and finally had a friend. (He’s easy on the eyes too…**sigh**)
But one night I changed the outcome of one of my dreams by accident and shifted my reality in a major way, so now I have to make some important decisions about choices and control. And what I believe is right.
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EXERPT FROM IN HER DREAMS:
Everything flashes purple. Then blinding white.
And I know myself.
It’s rare. I’m usually so immersed in the experience that I can’t really see myself or my surroundings. I start cataloging the facts. Through Nora’s eyes I see the limb, at least two feet in diameter. The far end of it has punctured the edge of the ice, sending spider-web cracks everywhere. The snow-saturated appendage still hangs sickly from the tree, attached by less than a sliver of wood.
The branch will fall.
I gasp, and the minuscule movement causes more pain. Twitching my fingers locked in my hair, I feel the devastating injury. My heart lurches with panic. How is she still conscious? A steady flow of blood silently pools past my fingers, creating steam on the ice.
Nora is dying.
I’ve died fifty-seven times, and it sucks. Every. Single. Time. I brace myself for number fifty-eight.
Joanna Reeder is a USA Today Bestselling author who takes her readers time traveling to the past and through the portals to Faerie (and ALWAYS have a dash of romance!).
She lives with her husband, three littles, a dog, and a cat. When she isn’t writing or reading, Joanna enjoys bike rides with her family, vacationing at the beach, and cuddling on the couch with a good movie.
She’s a believer in the paranormal (seriously, she has stories!) and her motto is, "A Dr. Pepper a day keeps insanity away!"
I raced through book one, tried to put it aside to read another, and decided I couldn't concentrate on anything else until I had finished this series. Holy crow! The characters were relatable, the drama heart-wrenching, and the entire plot was mind-blowing. This series felt so fresh, so believable, and it stuck with me for days afterward. I think I may have just gotten my first book hangover.
I figured out a little of the ending before it came, but there were so many surprises it hardly counts. The way everything threads together in the end had me thinking about the story for days. It's so incredible, truly fresh and original.
READ THIS! If you read nothing else this year, this series is outstanding. And the author has just released the boxset today! Grab it (before the prices goes up) so you can binge read to your heart's content.
This box set was phenomenal. Emily Chandler is a girl with a curse who visits the memories of the dead in her sleep. Her grandma is one of the few people who she can talk to about her dreams, and is someone who helps her deal with this curse. Throughout these books, Emily learns more about this curse- how to cope with it and how to use it to help others. She struggles with balancing her time in the past with her reality in the present, especially when that reality begins changing. Emily realizes that through these dreams, she is able to affect entire timelines. This isn't an exact science and Emily makes mistakes along the way.
In this series, you get to know Emily and her friends Arianna and Duncan. Their dynamic changes as the timeline flips. You also get to know Lucy, her fiance, and Andrew. As their lives become more and more intertwined, Emily dreams about other girls along the way. Nora, Isabella, Genevieve, Mary- the list goes on. It's a thrilling ride and one you will absolutely love going for.
In the beginning of the story I felt confusion, of who is who telling the story. But if you sit through it , later in the story the plotlines become more defined, even though I sometimes still struggle to follow the story and this kept on in the second book but not so much in the third book because by then I was used to the different story lines, the past and the present. But once you pick up this story, you want to finish all the three books. I love the intertwined story between Emily and Lucy, and the attraction and rejection to Andrew. Does Emily or Lucy want Andrew? In her own time Emily meets Duncan, can she love him the way she loves Andrew? Throughout the story there are a lot of surprises, which is easier because you can mold time, you can change time, what once was, is now no more. An outstanding romantic, thriller time adventure that let you immerse in the Victorian time, of how people lived and act in that time area. Can Emily save the people she loves? Or with everytime she changes something in the past, she looses one of the people she loves in the present?