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Dream Spinner
Selected for the Book Sense Autumn 2006 Children's Pick List! Disfigured by a car accident that also killed her dad, Jori has been transformed from a popular high school student into a bitter loner. Fatherless, isolated, and betrayed by her best friend, Jori is angry at the world. And now her sister Lisa has disappeared, unable to cope with the changes in her family. Walking home from school one day, Jori stumbles upon a strange house and meets Professor DePris, who shows her a living tapestry woven from dreams. Distrustful of the eccentric old man and the telepathic spider who weaves for him, she resists entering the dream tapestry until she realizes her sister is trapped inside. It’s up to Jori to enter the tapestry and rescue Lisa from the monstrous old man who is feasting on her fantasies. But how can Jori convince Lisa to leave this fantastic, yet dangerous, world where anything―even reuniting with their father―is possible?
264 pages, Paperback
First published September 8, 2006
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Bonnie Dobkin
26 books22 followersHere's everything you wanted to know about me...and probably a lot you didn't.
THE BASICS. I'm older than I act, red haired (usually), and excessively fond of chocolate. I work in textbook publishing, so I'm partially to blame for killer backpack syndrome. Sorry.
I love to sing, and have been known to act. I'd like to be on Broadway, but the closest I've ever come was reality TV. Finally, I'm the mother of three exceptionally handsome and talented sons. I say this with the sole purpose of embarrassing them. My husband is a dentist who really would like to be Doc Holliday, and I'm the love object of a 90-pound mutt of dubious heritage.
THE BASICS. I'm older than I act, red haired (usually), and excessively fond of chocolate. I work in textbook publishing, so I'm partially to blame for killer backpack syndrome. Sorry.
I love to sing, and have been known to act. I'd like to be on Broadway, but the closest I've ever come was reality TV. Finally, I'm the mother of three exceptionally handsome and talented sons. I say this with the sole purpose of embarrassing them. My husband is a dentist who really would like to be Doc Holliday, and I'm the love object of a 90-pound mutt of dubious heritage.
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August 25, 2016
I'm a bit confused about this book. I didn't like it, but I can't quite put my finger on why I disliked it as much as I did. And I'm even more confused as to why it currently has a 5-star rating on Amazon.com...
Jori lost her father in a car accident. Soon after that, her younger sister went missing. Then, one day, Jori stumbles across a creepy old man, his sentient pet spider, and his greatest treasure: a tapestry woven out of people's dreams. Jori soon realizes that her sister is being held prisoner inside the tapestry, and it's up to her to rescue her.
(That's my own description of the plot, and it's slightly different from the official one. I found the one on the book itself to be somewhat inaccurate and misleading. For example, I wouldn't call a person who has one friend "popular". And the stuff about reuniting with the dead father was misleading, at best.)
This book is listed as a young adult read. Unfortunately (and this may be why I had so many problems with it), it comes off as a book for much younger children... so much so that when the teenage protagonist kisses a love interest, it's rather jarring. I could not put my finger on how old Jori and her friends were supposed to be. Based on the fact that they were teenagers in high school (and yet Jori still had her father driving her around), I'd say they were supposed to be about fifteen. The problem is, they were written as though they were about eleven. This book is about dreams... teenagers' dreams, for the most part. And yet we've got a landscape populated by William Wallace, pharaohs, swamp hags, and talking wolves and unicorns.
And yet, I wouldn't give this book to younger children, either. We've got characters being lured into a derelict house by a creepy old man with only slight misgivings ("Well, we might end up murdered, but he says he's got something special to show me behind that door, so I'm going to go have a look!"). We've got some bad language that really wasn't necessary, and it came across as a desperate attempt to seem hip. Having a character say "shit" a lot does not make him seem more like a teenager. And I don't like recommending books for younger readers that have problems with the English language. There were two spots in the book where the editing went awry (extra words appeared in the sentence, as if the editor couldn't decide on which one, and so included both). There was an instance of "it's" being used as a possessive (gah!). And "pharaoh" was spelled wrong multiple times... including in a chapter title!
It took me ages to get through this one because I just wasn't enjoying it. Perhaps if I had gone into it with different expectations -- namely, that this was a book for a much younger audience -- I would have enjoyed it more. Then again, I probably wouldn't have. Ultimately, Dream Spinner reads rather like someone's weird dream. And while dreams are often relevant to the person having them, they're usually pretty boring to everybody else. As Max Beerbohm said, "People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table."
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Jori lost her father in a car accident. Soon after that, her younger sister went missing. Then, one day, Jori stumbles across a creepy old man, his sentient pet spider, and his greatest treasure: a tapestry woven out of people's dreams. Jori soon realizes that her sister is being held prisoner inside the tapestry, and it's up to her to rescue her.
(That's my own description of the plot, and it's slightly different from the official one. I found the one on the book itself to be somewhat inaccurate and misleading. For example, I wouldn't call a person who has one friend "popular". And the stuff about reuniting with the dead father was misleading, at best.)
This book is listed as a young adult read. Unfortunately (and this may be why I had so many problems with it), it comes off as a book for much younger children... so much so that when the teenage protagonist kisses a love interest, it's rather jarring. I could not put my finger on how old Jori and her friends were supposed to be. Based on the fact that they were teenagers in high school (and yet Jori still had her father driving her around), I'd say they were supposed to be about fifteen. The problem is, they were written as though they were about eleven. This book is about dreams... teenagers' dreams, for the most part. And yet we've got a landscape populated by William Wallace, pharaohs, swamp hags, and talking wolves and unicorns.
And yet, I wouldn't give this book to younger children, either. We've got characters being lured into a derelict house by a creepy old man with only slight misgivings ("Well, we might end up murdered, but he says he's got something special to show me behind that door, so I'm going to go have a look!"). We've got some bad language that really wasn't necessary, and it came across as a desperate attempt to seem hip. Having a character say "shit" a lot does not make him seem more like a teenager. And I don't like recommending books for younger readers that have problems with the English language. There were two spots in the book where the editing went awry (extra words appeared in the sentence, as if the editor couldn't decide on which one, and so included both). There was an instance of "it's" being used as a possessive (gah!). And "pharaoh" was spelled wrong multiple times... including in a chapter title!
It took me ages to get through this one because I just wasn't enjoying it. Perhaps if I had gone into it with different expectations -- namely, that this was a book for a much younger audience -- I would have enjoyed it more. Then again, I probably wouldn't have. Ultimately, Dream Spinner reads rather like someone's weird dream. And while dreams are often relevant to the person having them, they're usually pretty boring to everybody else. As Max Beerbohm said, "People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table."
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October 4, 2021
I am not particularly sure why I didn't like this, but it started off so fun. I thought the world building was maybe lacking, and the "rules" of the fantasy world didn't make sense to me. It also felt younger in the beginning like middle grade, and then all of a sudden at the end there was a lot of swearing and bad things happening that felt more YA and so was confused about the audience.
July 31, 2017
OMG!!!!!!!!! I LOVED THIS BOOK SO MUCH THE SHORT PROLOGUE GOT ME SUCKED IN AND I JUST COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN DEFINITELY RECOMMEND IT
April 24, 2021
Despite being a little juvenile, I enjoyed this book too much and it gave me exactly what I needed at the moment. The characters are pretty likable, and the world is super interesting, even though a lot of stuff is never explained and we are just expected to believe it. And there's just something so nostalgic about escaping the world through a portal and being on an adventure through magical lands on a quest to save somebody. The book never gave me too much anxiety about everything falling apart, and the ending was pretty sweet too, so it makes for the perfect light read.
February 23, 2008
Jori has detention. Punching your ex-best friend in the face will do that. Sitting in the classroom, Jori reflects on her life. In her
opinion, Marisa, the ex-best friend, deserves a lot more than a punch in the face for the way she has turned on her. Not only
has Jori lost her father in a terrible car accident that left her horribly scarred on her face and arm, but now her sister has
disappeared. To make matters worse, Marisa decides to drop her as a friend and call her a freak in the halls where everyone
can hear. This is what led to her detention sentence.
One evening when walking home from detention, Jori starts to follow a dog that leads her through some scary alleys, but
eventually to a beautiful, cozy cottage. Once she reaches the front door she is startled by the peep hole. Strangely, it talks to
her. Freaking out, she runs away, breathing a sigh of relief once she makes it home; until she realizes that she left her
backpack lying on the ground close to the cottage.
The next day Jori dreads the end of detention, knowing she is going to have to go back to find her backpack. Luckily Newt,
also stuck in detention, offers to walk her home since it gets dark so early in the evening. Not wanting to go to the cottage
alone, she accepts his offer. Once they get there, they are sucked into a world of unimaginable consequences.
Mr. DePris is the owner of the cottage and inside he presents a very welcoming environment, offering snacks and a warm
place by the fire. Mr. DePris offers to tell them a story and takes some glittery powder out of his pocket and blows it toward
the flames. Once it is in the air, Jori and Newt become overcome by fatigue and drift into sleep to dream. Mr. DePris is able
to watch their dreams and seems very excited by what he is seeing.
Jori, not completely asleep, sees Mr. DePris and is uncomfortable enough to rouse herself awake. She forces him to wake
Newt up so they can leave. The problem is, Newt doesn't want to leave. He was enjoying his dream of being a warrior,
fighting with William Wallace. Before Jori and Newt can get out of the cottage, Mr. DePris invites them back the next day to
see a treasure. Newt is very excited to return, but Jori feels uneasy.
Returning to the cottage turns out to be the most dangerous thing they could have done. Once inside, Mr. DePris takes
everyone to the second floor to see a beautiful tapestry that hangs on the wall. This tapestry is very special. The intricate
designs move. It turns out that Mr. DePris has a spider that can take the dreams of the people he brings to see it and weave
them into the tapestry after he puts them to sleep with the glittery dust. After their dream has been woven into the tapestry, the
dreamer goes into the tapestry as well and remains there until they dry up and die. Jori realizes the dangers of this and, using
the help of an unlikely ally, gets into the tapestry to save Newt and hopefully bring her sister home.
DREAM SPINNER is an interesting and unique fantasy that leads one lonely girl through the process of healing physical and
emotional scars while finding her strengths and learning to rely on them to survive and rescue those she cares about.
opinion, Marisa, the ex-best friend, deserves a lot more than a punch in the face for the way she has turned on her. Not only
has Jori lost her father in a terrible car accident that left her horribly scarred on her face and arm, but now her sister has
disappeared. To make matters worse, Marisa decides to drop her as a friend and call her a freak in the halls where everyone
can hear. This is what led to her detention sentence.
One evening when walking home from detention, Jori starts to follow a dog that leads her through some scary alleys, but
eventually to a beautiful, cozy cottage. Once she reaches the front door she is startled by the peep hole. Strangely, it talks to
her. Freaking out, she runs away, breathing a sigh of relief once she makes it home; until she realizes that she left her
backpack lying on the ground close to the cottage.
The next day Jori dreads the end of detention, knowing she is going to have to go back to find her backpack. Luckily Newt,
also stuck in detention, offers to walk her home since it gets dark so early in the evening. Not wanting to go to the cottage
alone, she accepts his offer. Once they get there, they are sucked into a world of unimaginable consequences.
Mr. DePris is the owner of the cottage and inside he presents a very welcoming environment, offering snacks and a warm
place by the fire. Mr. DePris offers to tell them a story and takes some glittery powder out of his pocket and blows it toward
the flames. Once it is in the air, Jori and Newt become overcome by fatigue and drift into sleep to dream. Mr. DePris is able
to watch their dreams and seems very excited by what he is seeing.
Jori, not completely asleep, sees Mr. DePris and is uncomfortable enough to rouse herself awake. She forces him to wake
Newt up so they can leave. The problem is, Newt doesn't want to leave. He was enjoying his dream of being a warrior,
fighting with William Wallace. Before Jori and Newt can get out of the cottage, Mr. DePris invites them back the next day to
see a treasure. Newt is very excited to return, but Jori feels uneasy.
Returning to the cottage turns out to be the most dangerous thing they could have done. Once inside, Mr. DePris takes
everyone to the second floor to see a beautiful tapestry that hangs on the wall. This tapestry is very special. The intricate
designs move. It turns out that Mr. DePris has a spider that can take the dreams of the people he brings to see it and weave
them into the tapestry after he puts them to sleep with the glittery dust. After their dream has been woven into the tapestry, the
dreamer goes into the tapestry as well and remains there until they dry up and die. Jori realizes the dangers of this and, using
the help of an unlikely ally, gets into the tapestry to save Newt and hopefully bring her sister home.
DREAM SPINNER is an interesting and unique fantasy that leads one lonely girl through the process of healing physical and
emotional scars while finding her strengths and learning to rely on them to survive and rescue those she cares about.
November 9, 2012
Reviewed by Karin Perry for TeensReadToo.com
Jori has detention. Punching your ex-best friend in the face will do that. Sitting in the classroom, Jori reflects on her life. In her opinion, Marisa, the ex-best friend, deserves a lot more than a punch in the face for the way she has turned on her. Not only has Jori lost her father in a terrible car accident that left her horribly scarred on her face and arm, but now her sister has disappeared. To make matters worse, Marisa decides to drop her as a friend and call her a freak in the halls where everyone can hear. This is what led to her detention sentence.
One evening when walking home from detention, Jori starts to follow a dog that leads her through some scary alleys, but eventually to a beautiful, cozy cottage. Once she reaches the front door she is startled by the peep hole. Strangely, it talks to her. Freaking out, she runs away, breathing a sigh of relief once she makes it home; until she realizes that she left her backpack lying on the ground close to the cottage.
The next day Jori dreads the end of detention, knowing she is going to have to go back to find her backpack. Luckily Newt, also stuck in detention, offers to walk her home since it gets dark so early in the evening. Not wanting to go to the cottage alone, she accepts his offer. Once they get there, they are sucked into a world of unimaginable consequences.
Mr. DePris is the owner of the cottage and inside he presents a very welcoming environment, offering snacks and a warm place by the fire. Mr. DePris offers to tell them a story and takes some glittery powder out of his pocket and blows it toward the flames. Once it is in the air, Jori and Newt become overcome by fatigue and drift into sleep to dream. Mr. DePris is able to watch their dreams and seems very excited by what he is seeing.
Jori, not completely asleep, sees Mr. DePris and is uncomfortable enough to rouse herself awake. She forces him to wake Newt up so they can leave. The problem is, Newt doesn't want to leave. He was enjoying his dream of being a warrior, fighting with William Wallace. Before Jori and Newt can get out of the cottage, Mr. DePris invites them back the next day to see a treasure. Newt is very excited to return, but Jori feels uneasy.
Returning to the cottage turns out to be the most dangerous thing they could have done. Once inside, Mr. DePris takes everyone to the second floor to see a beautiful tapestry that hangs on the wall. This tapestry is very special. The intricate designs move. It turns out that Mr. DePris has a spider that can take the dreams of the people he brings to see it and weave them into the tapestry after he puts them to sleep with the glittery dust. After their dream has been woven into the tapestry, the dreamer goes into the tapestry as well and remains there until they dry up and die. Jori realizes the dangers of this and, using the help of an unlikely ally, gets into the tapestry to save Newt and hopefully bring her sister home.
DREAM SPINNER is an interesting and unique fantasy that leads one lonely girl through the process of healing physical and emotional scars while finding her strengths and learning to rely on them to survive and rescue those she cares about.
Jori has detention. Punching your ex-best friend in the face will do that. Sitting in the classroom, Jori reflects on her life. In her opinion, Marisa, the ex-best friend, deserves a lot more than a punch in the face for the way she has turned on her. Not only has Jori lost her father in a terrible car accident that left her horribly scarred on her face and arm, but now her sister has disappeared. To make matters worse, Marisa decides to drop her as a friend and call her a freak in the halls where everyone can hear. This is what led to her detention sentence.
One evening when walking home from detention, Jori starts to follow a dog that leads her through some scary alleys, but eventually to a beautiful, cozy cottage. Once she reaches the front door she is startled by the peep hole. Strangely, it talks to her. Freaking out, she runs away, breathing a sigh of relief once she makes it home; until she realizes that she left her backpack lying on the ground close to the cottage.
The next day Jori dreads the end of detention, knowing she is going to have to go back to find her backpack. Luckily Newt, also stuck in detention, offers to walk her home since it gets dark so early in the evening. Not wanting to go to the cottage alone, she accepts his offer. Once they get there, they are sucked into a world of unimaginable consequences.
Mr. DePris is the owner of the cottage and inside he presents a very welcoming environment, offering snacks and a warm place by the fire. Mr. DePris offers to tell them a story and takes some glittery powder out of his pocket and blows it toward the flames. Once it is in the air, Jori and Newt become overcome by fatigue and drift into sleep to dream. Mr. DePris is able to watch their dreams and seems very excited by what he is seeing.
Jori, not completely asleep, sees Mr. DePris and is uncomfortable enough to rouse herself awake. She forces him to wake Newt up so they can leave. The problem is, Newt doesn't want to leave. He was enjoying his dream of being a warrior, fighting with William Wallace. Before Jori and Newt can get out of the cottage, Mr. DePris invites them back the next day to see a treasure. Newt is very excited to return, but Jori feels uneasy.
Returning to the cottage turns out to be the most dangerous thing they could have done. Once inside, Mr. DePris takes everyone to the second floor to see a beautiful tapestry that hangs on the wall. This tapestry is very special. The intricate designs move. It turns out that Mr. DePris has a spider that can take the dreams of the people he brings to see it and weave them into the tapestry after he puts them to sleep with the glittery dust. After their dream has been woven into the tapestry, the dreamer goes into the tapestry as well and remains there until they dry up and die. Jori realizes the dangers of this and, using the help of an unlikely ally, gets into the tapestry to save Newt and hopefully bring her sister home.
DREAM SPINNER is an interesting and unique fantasy that leads one lonely girl through the process of healing physical and emotional scars while finding her strengths and learning to rely on them to survive and rescue those she cares about.
September 22, 2014
Well, this sure was a bizarre little book. There were aspects that I liked, and many that I didn’t. Please be forewarned that this review may contain spoilers.
So the premise is that Jori has just lost her father in a car accident, which also left her with scars on her face and arm. Then her sister goes missing. And Jori sort of becomes an outcast at school, what with her personal tragedies and all. Her former best friend Marisa eggs on the teasing and tormenting, which, frankly, I found a little hard to believe. Best friends don’t unfriend each other as a result of a car accident, scars, and a missing sister. But I digress.
Jori meets classmate Newt as she sits in detention one day, a result of her having given Marisa a black eye. Newt is a fellow outcast, and starts giving Jori all kinds of flirtatious cues, which she totally doesn’t pick up on.
Long story short, Jori happens upon what seems to be an enchanted cottage, inhabited by a seemingly innocuous older man who calls himself Professor DePris. Well, this DePris fellow turns out to be quite the creep. He ensnares Newt, and another of their classmates, Derek, into this dream tapestry. Our little heroine Jori knows what’s up, and also figures out that this is likely where her little sister Lisa wound up too. So she decides to undertake a little quest to bring them back, and enters the dream tapestry as well.
This is when things take a sharp turn towards weird. This dream tapestry is actually a mosaic of sorts, made up of all the dreams of the dreamers that creepy old Professor DePris caught in his web. So in one chapter, Jori jaunts through a lovely dreamscape filled with unicorns and friendly wolves, pulled right out of a story that her beloved father read to her and her sister. Then we travel into William Wallace’s Scotland and Cleopatra’s Alexandria, before ultimately ending up in Maligor – dun dun dun – where the dream becomes a nightmare.
I don’t know. This book had too much and not enough going on at the same time. It seems like it’s confused about its audience as well. Jori is in high school, but the whole unicorn and wolf subplot seemed like it would be better accepted by a much younger audience.
I didn’t hate this book, but I didn’t love it either. I finished it in two days, so obviously it kept me going. But I didn’t think about it much when I put it down, so that says something too.
So the premise is that Jori has just lost her father in a car accident, which also left her with scars on her face and arm. Then her sister goes missing. And Jori sort of becomes an outcast at school, what with her personal tragedies and all. Her former best friend Marisa eggs on the teasing and tormenting, which, frankly, I found a little hard to believe. Best friends don’t unfriend each other as a result of a car accident, scars, and a missing sister. But I digress.
Jori meets classmate Newt as she sits in detention one day, a result of her having given Marisa a black eye. Newt is a fellow outcast, and starts giving Jori all kinds of flirtatious cues, which she totally doesn’t pick up on.
Long story short, Jori happens upon what seems to be an enchanted cottage, inhabited by a seemingly innocuous older man who calls himself Professor DePris. Well, this DePris fellow turns out to be quite the creep. He ensnares Newt, and another of their classmates, Derek, into this dream tapestry. Our little heroine Jori knows what’s up, and also figures out that this is likely where her little sister Lisa wound up too. So she decides to undertake a little quest to bring them back, and enters the dream tapestry as well.
This is when things take a sharp turn towards weird. This dream tapestry is actually a mosaic of sorts, made up of all the dreams of the dreamers that creepy old Professor DePris caught in his web. So in one chapter, Jori jaunts through a lovely dreamscape filled with unicorns and friendly wolves, pulled right out of a story that her beloved father read to her and her sister. Then we travel into William Wallace’s Scotland and Cleopatra’s Alexandria, before ultimately ending up in Maligor – dun dun dun – where the dream becomes a nightmare.
I don’t know. This book had too much and not enough going on at the same time. It seems like it’s confused about its audience as well. Jori is in high school, but the whole unicorn and wolf subplot seemed like it would be better accepted by a much younger audience.
I didn’t hate this book, but I didn’t love it either. I finished it in two days, so obviously it kept me going. But I didn’t think about it much when I put it down, so that says something too.
December 7, 2012
While I found the adventure of traveling in a dream to be rather thrilling, certain things kept niggling at me. I wasn’t quite certain of the ages of the protagonists and that made their behavior a little odd. They all seemed to be rather young, with their childish dreams of being warriors and having talking wolves and unicorns for friends. But others on their scholastic level showed a rather disturbing maturity, since they were already dating and swearing.
The idea of a child-thief is nothing new in literature. However, Professor DePris is one of the least credible I’ve ever read. He does exude an avuncular charm but he lets his façade slip just a little too often to be convincing. While the people he deceives are children for the most part, you would think that modern-day children who own cell phones would know better than to go into a stranger’s house. Admittedly, the suspicious Jori only returns because the Professor sends his dog Gopher (another telling name) to fetch her backpack and she has to follow the dog to get it back. But you wonder that the other kids should be so gullible.
So while this book wins points for its sword-and-sorcery dreamscape, I wish the author had spent a little less time on that and more on creating convincing characters.
The idea of a child-thief is nothing new in literature. However, Professor DePris is one of the least credible I’ve ever read. He does exude an avuncular charm but he lets his façade slip just a little too often to be convincing. While the people he deceives are children for the most part, you would think that modern-day children who own cell phones would know better than to go into a stranger’s house. Admittedly, the suspicious Jori only returns because the Professor sends his dog Gopher (another telling name) to fetch her backpack and she has to follow the dog to get it back. But you wonder that the other kids should be so gullible.
So while this book wins points for its sword-and-sorcery dreamscape, I wish the author had spent a little less time on that and more on creating convincing characters.
April 22, 2009
Comment: For some reason, this book reminded me of this wierd movie I saw as a child, "The Peanut Butter Solution." Maybe it was the whole part about a living picture/tapestry that the characters can actually step into...
Overall, a fantastic, creative story that I gobbled right up in one sitting. In it, an angry, outcast teen girl must travel through her most beautiful dreams and most terrifying nightmares in order to rescue her sister and restore the world of dreams from the horror that is destroying it. Just when she thinks all is lost, she discoveres she has carried the power to save the day (her alter-ego in the form of a powerful, magical wolf) with her all along. This concept is not unlike the theme addressed in Ende's "Neverending Story", although "Dream Spinner" flowed much more smoothly.
Looking forward to reading more of Bonnie Dobkin's writings. If Dream Spinner is any indication, readers will be in store for some amazing literature!
Overall, a fantastic, creative story that I gobbled right up in one sitting. In it, an angry, outcast teen girl must travel through her most beautiful dreams and most terrifying nightmares in order to rescue her sister and restore the world of dreams from the horror that is destroying it. Just when she thinks all is lost, she discoveres she has carried the power to save the day (her alter-ego in the form of a powerful, magical wolf) with her all along. This concept is not unlike the theme addressed in Ende's "Neverending Story", although "Dream Spinner" flowed much more smoothly.
Looking forward to reading more of Bonnie Dobkin's writings. If Dream Spinner is any indication, readers will be in store for some amazing literature!
October 31, 2007
i thought this book was cute, but a little too predictable. while normally i don't mind a little predictability, i could have written the rest of the book after the first ten pages. i didn't like how the "mean girl" didn't learn anything, she just stayed trapped in the web. i also didn't like that while the main character saved her friends and her sister, she didn't save anyone else. i realize that the ending was left open for the saving of other characters (or other books) but i'm not sure i would be interested in reading them. i did enjoy the set up. i thought that the combination of car accident and dream world were fascinating.
January 29, 2008
This book is kinda strange but good (-=
July 8, 2008
Dream Spinner displays a wonderful fantasy where it's possible to venture into your dreams. This book is slightly childish, though and reminds me of Narnia or whatever.
January 31, 2009
A fantastic story with amazing characters and very original idea, will draw you in. one of the best i have read in a long time.
February 18, 2015
i absolutely adore this book
January 3, 2010
had fun reading this - it was creative and realy brought you in
July 28, 2011
Very intriguing, captivating story with vibrant characters :) I enjoyed this more than I thought I would!
June 29, 2014
The story was very well written. The ending could have been a bit better, unless there's a sequel! =D
January 29, 2015
The book was a little more childish than what I had expected.
February 7, 2013
this was the most amazing book i had ever read. I could not find the will to put it down
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