first book of the dreamer trilogy, it felt like the entire book was a set up? The book focused on establishing the newer characters and reintroducing older ones, the actual plot was about trying figure out what was going on with the characters. Hennesy is a great foil to Ronan as a dreamer. Although she is older (I think) than Ronan she has next to no control over her dreams. Ronan, fresh highschool dropout, has a entire dream forest that he has full control over. while Henessy has a lot of experience at life, Ronan has in dreams. We got to see more of Declan in this book, finally get hear about his relationships to his father and dream magic more clearly. He is much more likeable in this book than he is in trc. I found him very relatable to. As a older sibling with tummy problems, I too would react similarly to him if I was force to deal with magic blackmarket my whole life. Carmen an Parsafil was pretty fun to follow too even though they were technically the villains. Carmen in some way similar to Declan, both deal with dream magic due their brothers being dreamers. While Declan loves Ronan and keeps his distance from the magical world to protect him. Carmen does not love her brother (but doesn't necessarily hates him) and tries take some from of control over this magic world to stop other dreamers. Parsifal was very tragic, I feel bad him :(. I wish we got to see more from him. Over all, it was ,again, a set up for the rest of the books plot but fun nonetheless.