As someone who daydreams constantly this was the perfect book to jump into with all of its twists and turns and a few nightmares too!

“Reverie” finds Kane trying to put the pieces together following his accident that left him without his memory and when he finds himself a new counselor who is a bit more eccentric than he expected he stumbles into a world where dreams known as reveries take on a life of their own and it’s up to Kane and a few unlikely allies to stop them before they spill over into the waking world.

This book was a lot of fun I was afraid at first that it might be confusing as we have a few genre swapped plots mixed in that our heroes have to face but you’re able to catch on quickly and once you do it’s exciting to see where the next reverie will take them. It does get a bit cliche with the info dump monologues by the villains but it gives you just enough insight as to the how and the why so I won’t complain too much.

My biggest struggle was the main character I feel like it took way too long for me to come around to liking him and though I’m happy most of my issues were resolved and he was actively called out on them by the others, for a good portion of my read I found myself wishing for this same story to be told from the POV of any of the others. It was also my biggest problem trying to figure out how any of them were friends with him and again I know that there was this big event that left him without the knowledge of who these people were and what they had been through but with how he treated them I don’t think I would have tried as hard to fix the relationships like they did.

This is a really fun read and I’d be interested to see if there’s any more because right now it seems like it’s a stand alone but there’s still room for more which would be nice to see especially if the epilogue was any indication of how the group dynamic could be.

**special thanks to the publishers and netgalley for providing an arc in exchange for a fair and honest review**

I wanted to love this one so badly. The cover is stunning and the premise sounded amazing. I loved the premise of the plot and the unique magic system. The writing was just missing something.

The beginning presented us with a boy who couldn't even remember who he was and I was completed sucked in. The initial intrigue quickly dwindled as things got complicated, quickly. I spent the first 25% of the book confused out of my mind. A lot of things were happening and there really weren't any answers. When the answers started pouring in, they just didn't seem to fit. The relationship with his friends just didn't feel real to me and I wasn't won over to the idea of them as a unit that can't live without each other. They didn't seem to have his best interest at heart. They were very important players in the events that happened and yet I don't know anything about them. We get the most details about Ursula and yet she is still a mystery to me. The most we know about their personalities is linked with their powers.

The relationships in this one were just a big problem for me. In the beginning, we see an amazing relationship with his sister. But it quickly unravels and they become almost enemies. They seem inseparable at the beginning and yet he throws her to the side the second he can. He spends most of the book using her, which doesn't fit the initial picture of them we get. We see little to no relationship with his parents and only have one conversation with his mother, which tells us nothing. I'm also confused as to why he threw his sister to the side and put all of his faith and trust in Poesy. This breaks from the amazing relationship we see at the start. Yes, he just went through something traumatic and is looking for answers, but pushing the safety and familiarity of his sister away for a stranger doesn't make any sense.

There's a lot of questions left at the end as well. What happened to the police investigation? Is the mill standing now? Do the reveries stop after the events that happened?

I really wanted to love this one. It has a drag queen sorceress for crying out loud. But this one fell really flat for me. I felt like it was a lot of beautiful words and flashy actions, missing a foundation to flesh out and build the story to let it stand on its own.

*I received a complimentary copy of this book from Sourcebooks Fire through NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.*