Dreamquake: Book Two of the Dreamhunter Duet
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The dreamhunting began as a beautiful thing, when Tziga Hame discovered that he could enter the Place and share the dreams he found there with other people. But Tziga Hame has disappeared and Laura, his daughter, knows that the art of projecting dreams has turned sour.
On St. Lazarus's Eve, when elite citizens gather at the Rainbow Opera to experience the sweet dream of Homecoming, Laura, determined to show them the truth, plunges them into the nightmare used to control the convict workers. The event marks the first blow in the battle for control of the Place, the source of dreams. Then, when Laura's cousin, Rose, uncovers evidence that the government has been building a secret rail line deep into the Place, Laura follows it to find out what lies at its end. As she struggles to counter the government's sinister plans, a deeper mystery surfaces, a puzzle only Laura can unravel, a puzzle having to do with the very nature of the Place. What is the Place, after all? And what does it want from her?
Inventive and richly imagined, Elizabeth Knox's Dreamquake, dramatic conclusion to the Dreamhunter Duet, will satisfy readers – whether or not they've read Book One.
"It is like nothing else I've ever read." -- Stephenie Meyer, The Twilight Saga
Elizabeth Knox
Elizabeth Knox has published several novels for adults and children, as well as autobiographical novellas. Her acclaimed adult novel The Vintner's Luck (1998) was shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 1999, and was made into a feature film in 2009. In 2008, her YA novel Dreamquake won an American Library Association's Michael L Printz Award for excellence in young adult literature. Elizabeth lives in Wellington, New Zealand.
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Reviews for Dreamquake
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Elizabeth Knox returns to the world of Southland (a sort of alternative New Zealand) in this second installment of her Dreamhunter Duet, and the result is a fantasy that is every bit as complex, thought-provoking, and emotionally satisfying as the first. Picking up a little before the conclusion of the previous book, Dreamhunter, and running through the same sequence of events, but from Rose and Grace Tiebold's perspective, rather than Laura's, Dreamquake soon had me as engrossed as the first book - involved with the characters emotionally, eager to know more about The Place, the nature of dream-hunting, and Cas Doran's plot to control the political life of Southland, and curious to see how the relationship between Laura and her sandman, Nown, would progress.I was incredibly impressed with the way that Knox answered these questions, without really answering them. Yes, the reader discovers what the Place is (well, more how it was made, than what it truly is), and what the dreams that the Dreamhunters mine in it, are meant to be and do. And yes, we see a lot more of Cas Doran, and learn about his sinister plot to seize political control, and be a behind-the-scenes puppet-master. We see more of Nown (and more Nowns, as it happens), and gain a deeper appreciation of his character. But although there is an overt explanation offered for these questions, although we learn more, the answers to the deeper questions remain elusive. What is a Nown, exactly? A sandman? A soul, as Laura claims? Where does the divine come into all of this, and how is it that some characters seems more on the divine end of the humanity-divinity spectrum, than others? These sorts of questions - the questions that make this a series really worth reading - are never really answered, and that's as it should be, because they're not the sort of questions that have answers. I imagine that some readers - particularly Americans, who (in my experience) are used to narratives in which the divine and its role is definitely defined, either for the good or the bad - will find that incredibly uncomfortable. For my part, I loved it!I read Dreamquake and its predecessor Dreamhunter for the International Children's Book Club to which I belong, in which we choose selections from all over the world. These books are meant to represent New Zealand, in our reading schedule, and I have to say, having now finished both of them, that they feel very much like products of that country to me. It's not just the topographical and climatic details (the island nation, Christmas in the summer), but the progressive "feeling" to them. Themes of sexuality (Laura's sexual awakening! sex inside The Place!), and of political and economic injustice, are freely depicted, while religious and theological ideas are explored in an unselfconscious way. I was strongly reminded of another brilliant work of New Zealand children's literature, Margaret Mahy's The Tricksters (admittedly one of my favorite YA novels ever!), in which another young girl is visited by a person/persons from another time/world - persons drawn into the world (like Nown was by Laura) by the girl in question, and intended, in some ways, to give her a warning. These parallels emphasized, for me, that this was a book coming out of a particular tradition, and while I can't say I am fluent with all the themes and subjects of that tradition, that sense of it as part of a larger literary "conversation" gave it great added meaning for me.In short: Dreamquake, which I feel really must be read together with its predecessor, Dreamhunter, is an immensely engaging, intelligent, thought-provoking work of fantasy, and is one I highly recommend to those readers who enjoy the genre, and are looking for something a little different.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This second half of the Dreamhunter Duet is where everything set up in the first novel starts to fall apart, in a (mostly) good way. Many of the assumptions about the dream turn out to be false, the bad guys are worse even than they appeared, and the stakes are much higher.
The ending requires a certain amount of faith, and I'm not sure I bought it fully, but the books were so delightful that I can't really complain. There's definitely some religious and cultural baggage that I don't share and I feel like my understanding was not quite what the author would have envisioned because of that, but overall the Duet is a fabulous work. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I found this conclusion to the story begun in The Dreamhunter to be surprising, evocative and entirely satisfying. And oddly I even found some laughs here and there, which I didn't, so much, in the first one.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I found that I didn't really like most of this book. It seemed to only give small tidbits of interesting things, just enough to keep you reading. It didn't get truly good until the second half of the book. Honestly I feel the same way about this book as I did the first book. It gave something good in the end that makes you want to buy the next book, but the beginning was only slightly interesting.Ill probably buy the next book to see if the story gets any better, hopefully the whole book will be interesting and not just half of it.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I read the first book in the Dreamhunter duet as part of the Most Underappreciated Book Contest earlier this year. It intrigued me enough that I went out and got the second. However, about half way through I almost put the book down. The characters seemed to be stuck in a loop trying to figure the same things out over and over again.Things were just taking too long for me, but I stuck through it and the second half of the book made up it. The characters started to develop again and the plot become involved and was progressing once again.Laura Hame is once again center stage of the story, and she has finally started to put things together about the mysterious Place. The pieces eventually fell together quite nicely and the story ended well.3/5
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Second book in the Dreamhunter Duet - so well done! Great concept, compelling characters. A solid read.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Personal Response:This book is not quite as strong as the Dreamhunter and could probably have 50-100 pages cut from the story. However, it brings together all of the story lines and mysteries built up in the first book. In the end it provides a satisfying ending and is a good sequel. Curricular/Programming Connections:Read with a SciFi/Fantasy book group
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wow! The sequel was a much more satisfying read than the first installment. Laura and Rose are back with their powerful families, trying to uncover what the Place is really being used for by the government and the connection the Hame family has to the place. It was interesting to think about the power that might come from dream manipulation. After Laura unleashes a nightmare on the public to wake people up about the treatment of convicts, there is a domino effect that starts several people on perilous paths to try to uncover the truth.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Though not quite as good as Dreamhunter, Knox's second dream novel was still good. She threw in a few twists and there was one that I guessed was going to happen, and it did -- sadly, it's something that annoys me in a lot of YA books, but she handled in decently enough. She also brought a character back who we thought had died, but did it in such a way that I was certain he hadn't, but couldn't quite be sure. If you read and liked the first, the second is a nice follow up.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5'The Dream Quake' is not so much a sequel to 'The Rainbow Opera' as a continuation of the story, and thus a little difficult to review without spoilers for the first book. We rejoin the narrative where 'The Rainbow Opera' left off – or, actually, a little before, as we relive St Lazarus's Eve 1906 from a different perspective. After the events of that night Laura is given refuge by the Grand Patriarch, who has his own agenda with regard to the Place. Gradually life returns to normal, Laura continues her training as a Dreamhunter whilst Rose prepares to take her place in society, but greater forces are at work and pull both girls toward a future that seems inevitable. We finally come to learn the nature of the Place, the reason Dreams exist, and their connection to the Hame family, and Laura at last fulfils her destiny … possibly not for the first time, but perhaps, this time around, for the last. A satisfying ending to a startlingly unusual and original read.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5After Laura Hame unleashes her nightmare upon the unsuspecting public, the adventure unfolds. To speak of anything beyond an "adventure" would certainly make many future readers unhappy, as new concepts and added equations to the complexity of Laura's predicament unfold through each chapter of this book. Not my favorite type of book, but it certainly left me with lasting emotions. Lovely, but alright.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The second book in the Dreamhunter Duet starts before the first ends - there's about 15-20 pages of overlap told from a slightly different point of view. From there, we learn where Laura went to hide after delivering a horrible nightmare that had been used to keep convicts in line to a large number of people in order to bring awareness to what Cas Doran and his Regulatory Body has been up to. Rose soon finds out that this isn't the only thing they're up to, so the fact that nobody seems to care that this nightmare is used on convicts quickly moves to the background.Like Dreamhunter, Dreamquake starts a little slowly, but steadily builds momentum as the reader and characters discover just what is going on with dreams and the Place. I grew a little frustrated that I figured out a lot before the main characters did, but overall it was an enjoyable read.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5A luscious conclusion to the Dreamhunter Duet, with a truly thought-provoking twist. Atmospheric and exciting.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I read this book immediately after reading book 1 and liked it much more! I loved that the series was complete in only two books. This was a thoroughly satisfying ending.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The sequel to Dreamhunter brings us in just as the first novel ended. Laura has released the nightmare "Buried Alive" over her Aunt Grace's dream at the dream palace. Laura wants to expose the bad things that The Body is doing. I enjoyed the sequel, but not quite as much as the first book.