Review of Dream Caster
Dream Cycle #1`
This post-apocalyptic fantasy paints a grim picture of the
world to come—a world beyond and without what we today think of as contemporary
society and culture. It is almost, but not quite, a world such as our
Neanderthal ancestors might have experienced, and yet, it is very different,
because for some the memories remain, more as tales told rather than actual
remembrance. Then too, this “new” world is remarkably and unexpectedly
dangerous. One would assume that life would once again be difficult, lacking
electricity, technology, and automation; but here it is downright dangerous
(firehounds—shudder!) and life can be snuffed without a moment’s notice.
Intriguingly, one of the characters states that life had
been meant to no longer be—but given the resilience of the human spirit, there
are survivors, both individually and in enclaves. Seems humanity just can’t be
put down forever. Weaver, with no knowledge of his past nor memories of his
former existence, knowing only that he is sixteen but not yet seventeen, must
leave the only enclave of population he’s known, and find his own way. In the
process he discovers that he is a “dream caster,” one who is able to work his
will upon consensus reality and to form it as he sees fit. Unfortunately,
although he is pure of heart and mind and wishes to form only good, he is not
the only Dream Caster and another can mold reality, yet without Weaver’s purity
of intentions.
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