It begins with a simple note. Roger Bascombe wishes to inform Celeste Temple that their engagement is forthwith terminated. But Celeste, for all her lack of worldly experience, is determined to find out why her fianc?should have thrown her over so cruelly.
Adopting a disguise, she follows her erstwhile lover to a costume ball at an isolated, forbidding manor, where she discovers a world by turns dizzyingly seductive and utterly shocking, and a powerful conspiracy with access to a terrifying mind-control technology with which they are poised to take over the world. Celeste joins forces with a worldly assassin and a royal surgeon, both of whom must confront the mysterious conspiracy to save their lives. Soon, this unlikely trio of strangers must rely upon each other and tap into their every unknown resource of strength, character and ingenuity to save the world as they know it-a world that readers and listeners will never forget.
Dahlquist's vivid, mesmerizing combination of fantastic elements in a recognizable historical setting (think Victorian England) will remind readers of both Jules Verne's visionary adventures and Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials' trilogy (The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass), which has sold over 1.5 million books according to Bookscan. This is clearly not a YA story, however, but can more accuratly described as Pullman for adults: beneath the surface of Indiana Jones-style heroics lurks an explosive eroticism that makes mind control as sexy as Anne Rice made vampires.
Pulsing with danger, terror and romance, THE GLASS BOOKS OF THE DREAM EATERS is a mammoth work of the imagination, a deliriously readable, heart-stoppinglysuspenseful and darkly erotic masterpiece of storytelling.
