Review: Review: The Dream Crystal (The Dream War Series, #1) by Mark O'Bannon
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 25, 2011
In this novel we meet Aisling, who finds out, after a series of events that she is a faerie changeling.Along with this comes the knowledge that she has a 'sister', well the girl she was exchanged with, and she decided to find her but soon learns that she has been taken by the Shadow People.I think that is secondary plot, though I am still not positive. As the name we also have the plot about the actual Dream Crystal about which the book is named. We get three worlds in this novel-- the human world I guess, the shadow world and the land of dreams, which is where all the fairies live.We meet a lot of interesting people from all three among them are, Genevieve a human and Aisling's best friend. Eileen, a faerie. Ith, the shadow king.One of the reasons this novel only gets three stars was because of several little things that bothered me. It was nothing that affected the story as a whole but did cause a slow pace at times.Example: There were many character in the book and while some such as Aisling, Erin and Elaine was easy to remember we get a lot of other characters, mostly male now that I think back on it, that I couldn't really keep straight.Above is a very vague premiss of what this book is about I would try to give a more in-depth one but just do not think it is possible without giving everything away.When it came down to it I find I could not love Aisling, like her yes, but not love her. She just seemed slightly artificial to me and kind of a tease if you will. Also, I never felt a very strong connection with her, which is strange as the novel is only her POV.Altogether I really did like the novel and think it is a good first book and look forward to see more in the series.I would recommend this novel to anyone interested in a novel about fairies or a slightly long fantasy.*I received an Ebook copy of this book for free to review from the author.