Book Review The Dream Crystal By Mark O'Bannon

 



Blurb:

All of the world's dreams are about to die. The Shadow People have come. Always near, they linger in the darkness, ready to devour dreams, hopes, aspirations and desires. . .

Aisling, having lost her dream of becoming a fashion designer, learns that she's a Faerie changeling. Disquieted by the fact that her faerie parents are kidnappers, she has decided to rescue the human child she was exchanged for, but her "sister" is no longer among the faeries, having been taken by the Shadow People. Ith, the Lord of Shadows, is trying to control the dreams of mankind, which are under the protection of the faeries, so they're at war.

Aisling, who doesn't believe in dreams any longer, is falling in love with a handsome, mysterious stranger - one of the Shadow People

All of the world's dreams are about to die. The Shadow People have come. Always near, they linger in the darkness, ready to devour dreams, hopes, aspirations and desires. . .

My Thoughts

A world with dreams? Who would have thought? I sure would not have, growing up I was always challenged you try to live out my dreams. That's just what Erin O'Neil is trying to do in the Dream Crystal even though it seems that every which way she turns her dreams are getting snuffed one by one. Next thing she knows her and her best friend Genevieve, and now she's known as Aisling, a fairy and now she has to defend the Land of Dreams against the shadow people as well as save her sister.

It's a classic good vs evil story plot, but it does have a twist.The story doesn't only deal with humans beings (misleans) but also with fairies both good and bad. O'Bannon does a superb job in being descriptive about the worlds, characters and about the customs of these world's the reader isn't wondering about anything. He also is very knowledgeable when it comes to fashion trends.

One of the criticisms that I have about the Dream Crystal is that it dealt a lot with the Irish customs and traditions. That in itself is not the criticism, but that sometimes the fight scenes were very lengthy and descriptive and then when you throw in all these Irish customs I for one got lost many times and found myself having to read a page over and over. To be honest that was one reason that it took me so long to get this review up and running. If you love fantasy and you have no problem with all the information that is given to you on one page then the Dream Crystal is for you.