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A review by daisy_hillock
I Dream in Color (The Dreamer Chronicles #1) by Sarah Mazza
5.0
I was drawn into this narrative immediately and couldn't put it down. The world building is incredibly vivid and imaginative, with mushroom spores that light up the night sky, kite dragons and fish that swim through the air, trees that communicate with each other in colourful pheromones and a huge Saturn-like planet hanging in the sky.
It is also dark and dystopian, with themes of military police suppression of the populace, substance addiction and mental health battles. The main character starts out waking from a bio-pod, within a corporation that harvested his bio-resources in exchange for feeding his mind pleasant dreams of a fake world. Nobody normally wakes up from their bio-pods, no one ever wants to and they never decide to leave, except he did, with his body damaged, to begin a journey of self-realisation.
This novel is deep and profound. I am looking forward to book 2.
It is also dark and dystopian, with themes of military police suppression of the populace, substance addiction and mental health battles. The main character starts out waking from a bio-pod, within a corporation that harvested his bio-resources in exchange for feeding his mind pleasant dreams of a fake world. Nobody normally wakes up from their bio-pods, no one ever wants to and they never decide to leave, except he did, with his body damaged, to begin a journey of self-realisation.
This novel is deep and profound. I am looking forward to book 2.