Reviews

Finder: Dream Sequence by Carla Speed McNeil

testpattern's review against another edition

3.0

[author: Carla Speed McNeil] doesn't always hit on all cylinders, but I never fail to be drawn in by the richness of her world. [book: Finder] works for me best when it focuses on Jaeger, and this volume does not. Jaeger's appearance in it is puzzling at best. I'm sure that all will be revealed in time, but this volume doesn't really do it for me as well as the others.

rubel's review against another edition

5.0

Weird and delightful story about a young man with a special talent. He keeps an entire virtual world going inside his mind. He's always connected to the network, so people from all over spend time in the huge world he's providing. It kind of takes its toll on him, though...and unpleasant things start happening in the world he thought he controlled completely. Very interesting stuff about creativity, art, how our minds might work. Very well drawn, with the art contributing essential qualities to the story. Possibly the best thing this ingenious and skilled author has created.

arachne_reads's review against another edition

5.0

This was my first encounter with Finder, and I wasn't entirely sure about what I was reading-- I felt like I had entered in via a small back door something so much bigger and more developed. I'd been trying for years to remember the name of the volume (which one was it? don't want to make a mistake and list the wrong one...), and only once I began reading the omnibus Finder Library edition, did the familiarity of it snap forth and remind me. It had been loaned to me about the same time as Moonshadow, and its effect was haunting.

Reading it in 2015 anchored in its world building context is a different beast. If you're new to Finder, these seems to me like not a bad place to start. I think the series has many possible points of entry. What you understand of it and how you understand it will change based on where you start, but that is always the case.