New middle grade speculative fiction
FINALLY finding my way back to doing some reading! Here are two good new ones I found. The first one is called The Book of the Stolen Dreams by David Farr. It's about a brother and sister, Robert and Rachel, who have been tasked by their father to find a book of stolen dreams and use it to bring down an evil dictator, Charles Malstain. The book, it turns out, holds the secret to the line between the living and the dead, allowing the person who controls the book to potentially, live forever. There are a number of protections set up for the book (it's been around awhile and the family that helped create it knew the power that it had, as well as it's potential for abuse) so a really wonderful part of the book is watching Rachel and Robert try to figure out who they should trust. This is a very exciting book with lots of plot twists. The evil villain is wonderfully evil, in a way that some readers will draw parallels to things that are happen...