Abandoned by Booklikes

This book was a hot mess. Took forever to get done and in the end it is just setting up the plot for book #3 which I have no intention of going near. There is zero character development and the big is stuffed with too much going on. Bray trying to add in a Chinese main character and discuss Chinatown in New York was haphazard at best. We finally see who is causing people to dream forever and die and I went eh at the only reveal that made sense. 

We also still have characters not coming clean with each other so I’m sure even more stupidity will follow.

Evie and Sam are awful. Evie just wants to be famous and doesn’t care about her friends at all. Sam is obsessed with finding his mother and getting one over people. And somehow these two may have caught feelings for each other and then tossed them away again. Evie though still wants Jericho and is jealous of him going out with Mabel.

Mabel needs a spine and to leave Jericho alone. She finally catches a clue he’s into Evie. But she still wants him. Cause there are no other young men in New York (sarcasm). Jericho is into secret stuff per usual and obsessing over Evie and trying to get over her:

Theta and Memphis would matter more if they actually talked to each other. She’s keeping secrets from him and also trying to make it big which baffled me since she’s still on the run using her fake name.

Henry meets Ling who is a fellow dreamwalker Diviner and he dreams of his lover Louis. He soon sleeps more and more and is barely awake in the real world.

Ling could have been interesting. There’s something there initially with her having her illness and dealing with a Queen Bee in Chinatown that danced towards interesting at times.

There’s too much crammed in this 600 plus page behemoth. You don’t get a chance to stay with characters and really care about them. It took til the 80 percent mark before everyone even met up. That’s ridiculous. The we rush headlong to the most anticlimactic battle ever with people wondering if what one group did mattered or not.

The world building is a mess and it feels like Bray made up things on the fly.