Author: J Daniel Batt
Publisher: Storyjitsu
Rating: WARTY!
Once again I blundered into a book in a series that wasn't book one! This one sounded interesting, and it does say it's book two, so this time it was entirely my fault. Unfortunately, that realization didn't help me to get into the story or to understand exactly what was going on, which spoiled this story for me. It seems to me that you really have to have read book one to get anything out of this one. This one will not help you understand what's going on, nor was the writing of a kind which wanted to engage my brain.
That said, this is written for a mid-grade audience, which I am not, so I can't fault it on that score, but J Daniel Batt is a writer who says, "...stepped foot in..." so I have to downgrade it for that. It's "...set foot in...". You can write it how you want but I don't have to accept it!
Evidently Keaghan has got himself in touch with Dreamside in book one (which was almost four hundred pages long), which is where dreams are real. He left, and in book 2, he longs to go back there but doesn't know how. Shortly after he prevents a tooth thief from taking his tooth, he accidentally ends-up back in Dreamside and discovers that his prevention of the tooth thief has destroyed much of this world.
Instead of being outraged that he's being blamed for something he did not do, and for being left in ignorance about how the tooth theft works, and about these guys are trying to take his teeth without paying him for them, he becomes all contrite and resolves to help them by taking it to the Tomsi, or whatever they're called, who did do the damage.
As soon as they enter Tomsi-land, the story stops and you're supposed to buy book 3 to find out what happens next, so these novels are very much serial novels, not complete stories in themselves, and they are extremely short (100 pages. ~8,000 words) so it's essentially a short story for $7 that really doesn;t go anywhere.
I can't recommend this. Go read Laini Taylor instead. Much more interesting, value for money, and there are still teeth!
