It's an imperfect world

Blurb:

Haunted by memories of his massacred settlement, sixteen-year-old Weaver seeks cover in a hidden refuge among the remains of a ruined city.  In the midst of building a new life, Weaver discovers that he has the amazing power to case his dreams into reality.  Convinced it's just an anomaly, Weaver ignores it..  That is until he learns of a mysterious man who shares the ability, and used his power to bring nightmares into existence and wage war on the world.  The peaceful life Weaver hoped for begins to unravel as waves of chaos begin to break loose about him.  In a race against time, Weaver must learn to accept his role as a dream caster and master his new power, before his new home is destroyed and humanity is pushed to the brink of extinction.

Review:

The writing was very simplistic but possibly appropriate for the intended age range, it seems to this reader that this particular author does not have very much life experience.

The novel was verbose.  The characters did not converse like ordinary people of their age.  The characters were also very one dimensional with little to tell them apart.  The way these people make connections/friendships is a bit too instantaneous and not what happens in real life, even if that life is against a post-apocalyptic backdrop which surely would make you more cautious than anything else.  None of these characters stood out nor did they make this reader identify with any of them.  One refreshing thing though was that there was not the usual romance element to this book.

Unfortunately there is loads of repetition in this novel and for all its verboseness there is minimal backstory perhaps this is why the reader could not identify with any of these characters.  Equally the plot has about as much depth as the characters.

This book required loads of reading and yet very little happened – a better editor is required to tighten this up.  We don’t even find out who the villain(s) are so there is no payoff.

I think this is one of those books that you either love or hate and I didn’t love it.  Perhaps the reason it didn’t grab me was because I am considerably older than the intended audience but try it yourself and come to your own conclusions.

Full Disclosure: ARC received from Netgalley for an honest review.

I rated this as 2 stars on Netgalley and 'I did not like it' on Amazon (2 stars) and Goodreads (1 star).