More meditative than the first volume, this complexly plotted wonder offers little to reorient readers but much to engage them. Farooq-Lane wants to stop killing but still stop the dreamers. The dreamed want to live free of their dreamers. The dreamers want open ley lines and the freedom to dream. Three groups-the dreamers, the dreams, plus a rogue Moderator/Visionary team, each selfish, amoral, and deeply sympathetic in turn-circle one another, trying to change or save the world, or dreams, or themselves, or all of the above.
Power dynamics have shifted following the showdown between the dreamers and the Moderators. Although Ronan continues to be the pivot, the dreams take precedence: Jordan finds herself as a maker rather than a forger while Matthew grapples with who he is now that he understands he was dreamed. Whether dreamed or crafted, art engenders life.Ĭreation and destruction, art and mimicry, power and disenfranchisement: The world requires balance, but the Lynch brothers, standing at the center of it all, have always tended to extremes.
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