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    The Dream Keeper's Daughter
    The Dream Keeper's Daughter
    The Dream Keeper's Daughter
    Audiobook17 hours

    The Dream Keeper's Daughter

    Written by Emily Colin

    Narrated by Roger Wayne and Emily Woo Zeller

    2.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Isabel Griffin has done her best to move on since her boyfriend, Max Adair, vanished without a trace eight years ago, leaving her heartbroken-and pregnant. Eerily enough, this isn't the first time someone Isabel loves has gone missing. When she was sixteen, her mother disappeared, and her father became obsessed with finding his long-lost wife-at the expense of parenting Isabel.

    Determined not to repeat her father's mistakes, Isabel works hard to become a respected archaeologist and a loving mother to her daughter, Finn, a little girl with very unusual abilities. But while Isabel is on a dig in Barbados, she receives a disturbing phone call. The hauntingly familiar voice on the other end speaks just four words-"Isabel. Keep her safe."-before they're disconnected.

    Isabel tries to convince herself that the caller can't possibly be Max. But what if it is, and Finn is in danger? As one mysterious event after another occurs, she can't shake the feeling that, despite what everyone else believes, Finn's father is alive-and he's desperately trying to reach her.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJul 25, 2017
    ISBN9781541478176
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    • 2/5
      I am a fairly easy-to-please listener. I have read books with unclear endings, and even endings that I just didn’t prefer, but the ending of this book is so incongruous to the bulk of it that it has caused a visceral reaction. I have never wanted to stop reading a book more than 75% of the way into it, but this story took a turn for the worse and I ended up listening to the end of it with an anxious gut, begging the author to please give the characters some damn sense.

      (Spoilers ahead.)
      I have issues with a number of things, but first and foremost Isabel. She is the main character of the book and I question her choices as a woman and a mom. I understand that after waiting around eight years for Max that Isabel may no longer be in love with him, but did she have to run over and tell him she had sex with Ryan minutes after she did the deed? Surely she could have nailed the coffin on her relationship with Max another way. Due to a freak cosmic accident Max has lost everything in the span of two weeks, and she just rubs salt in the wound. She claims she believes Max, really what choice did we have based on her visions, Finn’s picture, Jennifer’s experience, etc. But she never puts her foot down and tells Ryan to stop acting like Max chose to leave her. So Max didn’t tell Isabel he saw her mom walk into the woods with Lily Adair, would she have believed him if he did? He was 17 and didn’t even know her when it happened, and she definitely would have thought him crazy. Then to put Ryan above Max/Finn in the end both in the decision to let Finn spend the time with Max and to move with Ryan disgusted me. I understand Isabel’s feelings of love and protectiveness towards Ryan, but if she believes Max's story at all, then how could she be so cruel. Finn finally got her father AND grandmother back, but I guess that does not matter more than Ryan's sensitive "I’m a hurt child and should have gone to therapy, but I didn’t and I just need to suck on Isabel’s boob" feelings. I knew from the beginning that there would be a choice between Ryan and Max when Max inevitably comes back, but I hated that we went from all this backstory on Max and Isabel, the Barbados slavery story, Julia’s disappearance, etc to just being the Ryan show. Not even the Ryan and Isabel love story, literally it was just the Ryan show and all the drama on his back-story. Sad, but seriously out of place in this book.

      A couple of questions. Who is the dream keeper? I must have missed that part. Is Finn the dream keeper’s daughter? If so, why did we not spend more time getting to know her? Max explains his version of Isabel's visions, but I don't recall how he explained the phone call. How would that have happened? Why "keep her safe." Finn was never in any danger except for maybe when she went to get Max and Julia (how did that work by the way). Considering so much detail was given to other issues, why wasn't this explained. Why didn’t we get to spend some more time with Julia once they returned? Did Max and Julia age, or did they look more or less the way they did when they vanished? Why did six years for Julia pass like a year, and two weeks in the past go by like eight years for both of them?

      Oh well. I’m sure I’ll never know but I'd like 17.5 hours of my life back now.
    • 2/5
      The Dream Keeper’s Daughter by Emily Colin is a book about two people who wish to find each other. Dr. Isabel Griffin lives in Charleston, South Carolina with her seven-year-old daughter, Finn. Finn’s father, Max Adair disappeared eight years ago, and Isabel has not heard from him since. This is the second time this has happened to Isabel. Her mother, Julia disappeared in a similar manner six year prior to Max’s disappearance. While on a dig in Barbados, Isabel receives a call from Max telling her to keep Finn safe. Hope surges within Isabel that Max is still alive. Where is he? Later, one of the students uncovers part of her mother’s custom-made necklace. How did her necklace end up here? Isabel heads home to Finn, her dad, and her best friend, Ryan Baxter. Strange events occur that convince Isabel that Max is alive and trying to reach her. Will they ever be together again?The Dream Keeper’s Daughter was a missed opportunity. I liked the core idea, but I was not a fan of the completed novel (I finished it and said “meh”). The story alternates chapters between Isabel in the present and Max in the past. I would just settle into Max’s story when we were back to Isabel. While in the present with Isabel, she would then reminisce about her past with Max (it could get confusing at times). In the past with Max, he would remember his time with Isabel. I was not enamored with Isabel (did not like her at all). Isabel came across as obsessed (in finding Max) and unable to move forward with her life emotionally. The time difference is never really explained. Max disappears and is gone eight years, but it is only two weeks for him. I wish the author had played up Finn’s special abilities. The supernatural elements were not emphasized or brought to life. My rating for The Dream Keeper’s Daughter is 2 out of 5 stars. I thought the story was lackluster and flat (this is one of those books I did not want to finish). The ending was disappointing and expected. Readers are left with many unanswered questions (I would be more detailed, but then I would give away key details). The descriptive relations between Max and Isabel unnecessary (though predictable). I do want to mention that the book does contain foul language and violence. The Dream Keeper’s Daughter comes across as a first draft instead of a published novel.
    • 3/5
      I loved The Memory Thief and was excited to read this book.Isabel's mother disappeared when she was a teenager and then eight years later her boyfriend Max also disappears. When Max disappeared, Isabel had just told him she was pregnant. Fast forward almost eight years, when Isabel is on a dig site in Barbados and gets a phone call from Max and then she finds the necklace her mom was wearing when she disappeared. The book alternates between Max and Isabel. At first I loved the book and would have given it a four. From the start I never cared for Isabel's best friend Ryan. I even liked Isabel, but all that changed when Max and Julia show up. Throughout the whole book all Isabel wanted was to see Max again. She didn't even seem happy to see her mother. The whole time Max was trapped in the past all he could think of was Isabel and when he shows up she blames him for abandoning her. I couldn't believe she would let Ryan make the decision whether Max should be allowed to take his daughter on a trip for a month. I also couldn't believe Isabel would even consider moving away.For the most part I loved the book it was just the ending that changed my mind and the characters. I loved reading about Barbados and the slave rebellion. I loved the story and the writing style. I do recommend this book because it was mostly a wonderful read and look forward to reading more books by the author. Thanks to NetGalley, Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine and the author, Emily Colin, for a free electronic ARC of this novel.