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I've been a fan of C. S. Friedman's work since she first published the Coldfire trilogy - which remains one of my all time favorites. The Magister series, while not quite at the same level, was also thoroughly enjoyable.

Then comes Dreamwalker. A big disappointment.

Admittedly, I did not read the description or reviews before purchasing - I simply saw a new novel was available from a favorite author, and I grabbed it. Caveat emptor.

I am a fan of some young adult fiction, and, as an educator, I'm well aware of the popularity dystopian fantasy is enjoying. Some of these YA novels are great reads for people of all ages, and some are actually better when read as an adult - with the years of experience needed to give better context. Ernest Cline's excellent "Ready Player One" almost requires first hand knowledge of the 1980s for everything to really make sense. The difference in those, though, is knowing ahead of time I'm reading a YA novel. That was not the case here.

It's not just the characters and their adolescent mind set, it's the surprisingly conventional plot. One of the reasons YA novels tend to work is their very formulaic nature. Sure, the details might be a bit different, but, overall, we know what's going to happen. While the Coldfire and Magister series were quite original, that's not true here. Substitute "dystopian parallel universes" for "dystopian future Earth" (a la Hunger Games, et. al.) and you have Dreamwalker. Although it gets a bit better in the last 1/4 of the novel, it's too little, too late.

Even as YA fiction (and, annoyingly, it's not marketed as such) it doesn't have enough newness, character development, or interesting turns of phrase/vocabulary/descriptions to keep it going. I rate it as 2 stars out of respect for the other works written by this author, and for the fact it gets a bit better toward the end. But I was severely tempted, many times, to put this down and not come back.

When will she produce something equal to the Coldfire series?


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Dreamwalker eBook CS Friedman Reviews

I'm a huge Friedman fan. The Wilding, This Alien Shore, The Madness Season, and the Magister and Coldfire trilogies are superb. This book, however, reads more like the current typical teen angst novel. It feels like the author was trying to jump on a bandwagon rather than deliver her usual unique, intricate work. Supporting characters are under-developed, the plot line is predictable, and seeds of the stereotypical love triangle are planted. It's a shame, really.
The dreamwalker series has been a bit of a disappointment from C. S. Friedman. This is the author that brought us the Coldfire Series, and the Magister series, In conquest Born, This Alien Shore, and Madness Season. All of these books and series are noteworthy for their well developed world settings. Whereas the world setting of the dreamwalker series is poorly developed to the point of being unbelievable. Some of the issues with the world setting are addressed in the last book making it slightly more readable, but only slightly. Her old books felt well edited... as if several people had read through them line by line several times picking out inconsistencies no matter how small and asking questions like "If this civilization can do THIS why is it so hard for them to do THAT?" These books felt like they had been edited for typos but not content, and not very well even for that.
I gave this book 4 stars as it really is a good book with a very interesting world build that may bring Friedman to new audiences. Having said that I did not research it before I bought it . . . it is, compared to Friedman's earlier works, a very short book. It is also in the Young Adult genre. As someone who first picked up the first book in the Coldfire Trilogy when I was 13 and then proceeded to read and reread everything she has ever written . . . well this current book was not what I expected.

Having said that, judged on its own merits, it is a good start to a different sort of Friedman series. If you are a fan of Young Adult Fiction you will probably love this book. If you are a fan of everything Friedman has ever written you will probably enjoy this book, as long as you know what you are getting into. If you happen to have really liked the Coldfire Trilogy or the Magister series or the Madness Season, like that kind of dark/psychological fantasy/sci Fi but are not a hardcore fan of Friedman, then this series may not be for you.
I found this to be a rather conventional parallel worlds novel told from the point of view of an American teenager.

Jessica Drake finds that she is not genetically the child of either of her parents; her dreams are of interest to others; she, and others like her, are targeted for murder; her brother is kidnapped and taken to another Earth; Jesse and friends to the rescue. Formulaic.

This story seems to serve as an introduction to a trilogy or, possibly, longer series. However, neither the storyline nor character development are up to Friedman's earlier efforts (Coldfire/Magister trilogies). It all seems rather simplistic; I found that I didn't really care about any of the characters nor about what was happening to them, and this after about four hundred pages. There is, however, some hope as Jesse is going to try to find her real mother and learn about this dreamwalking thing of hers. Perhaps Friedman will get enough feedback from the readers of Dreamwalker that she will treat the remaining books in the series as serious adult sci-fi/fantasy and not something to palm off on the YA market.

I'll probably end up getting the next book in this series but I will not pre-order it sight unseen.
I've been a fan of C. S. Friedman's work since she first published the Coldfire trilogy - which remains one of my all time favorites. The Magister series, while not quite at the same level, was also thoroughly enjoyable.

Then comes Dreamwalker. A big disappointment.

Admittedly, I did not read the description or reviews before purchasing - I simply saw a new novel was available from a favorite author, and I grabbed it. Caveat emptor.

I am a fan of some young adult fiction, and, as an educator, I'm well aware of the popularity dystopian fantasy is enjoying. Some of these YA novels are great reads for people of all ages, and some are actually better when read as an adult - with the years of experience needed to give better context. Ernest Cline's excellent "Ready Player One" almost requires first hand knowledge of the 1980s for everything to really make sense. The difference in those, though, is knowing ahead of time I'm reading a YA novel. That was not the case here.

It's not just the characters and their adolescent mind set, it's the surprisingly conventional plot. One of the reasons YA novels tend to work is their very formulaic nature. Sure, the details might be a bit different, but, overall, we know what's going to happen. While the Coldfire and Magister series were quite original, that's not true here. Substitute "dystopian parallel universes" for "dystopian future Earth" (a la Hunger Games, et. al.) and you have Dreamwalker. Although it gets a bit better in the last 1/4 of the novel, it's too little, too late.

Even as YA fiction (and, annoyingly, it's not marketed as such) it doesn't have enough newness, character development, or interesting turns of phrase/vocabulary/descriptions to keep it going. I rate it as 2 stars out of respect for the other works written by this author, and for the fact it gets a bit better toward the end. But I was severely tempted, many times, to put this down and not come back.

When will she produce something equal to the Coldfire series?