Review: What happens when where you go in your dreams is real?
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 2, 2014
Just about everyone has had dreams that they are in a different world, that they are a different person. We all escape to places in our dreams and then wake up and go about our day-to-day lives, sometimes unaware that we dreamed at all. And most of us start college having no idea what we want to be when we grow up. And most of us have the luxury of time to make those decisions. Cassie Marshall isn’t one of the lucky ones. Her dreams literally take her to a different world, a world in which she discovers that she isn’t exactly human and, at the ripe old age of nineteen, she is required to make a decision that will change her entire life. She is given a year to make her decision, but that timetable is drastically truncated when other Changelings like her start disappearing.I wasn’t exactly sure about this book at first. When I started reading it, and Cassie got the news that she’s a Changeling, I expected a sort of love triangle thing between her, Aleksander, and Dom (the cute boy that Cassie meets at her job). And that plays out to a certain extent, but not at all in the way I expected! I love the way that the author depicts life as a college student. It’s been a while, but I can remember feeling overwhelmed by all the things I had to get done, and I didn’t have such a large decision hanging over my head. The characters are well-developed and I particularly love the use of setting and dialogue. My only complaint is that the reason that a person finds out that he or she is a Changeling at nineteen rather than at other traditional times like the onset of puberty was never explained. I would like more of an explanation about that, but it wasn’t such a detraction from the book that I didn’t enjoy the rest of it. This book took me on a wild ride and I enjoyed it immensely.  There wasn’t a cliffhanger ending, for which I am immensely grateful, but I can definitely tell that the author has us set up for further novels in this series, and it will be interesting to see where the story goes from here.