The Dreaming Place

by Charles de Lint

Paperback, 2002

Status

Available

Call number

813.54

Publication

Firebird (2002), Mass Market Paperback, 160 pages

Description

When a manitou, a winter earth spirit that is withering and in need of blood, fastens upon Nina, her sixteen-year-old cousin Ash enters the Otherworld to stop the spirit.

User reviews

LibraryThing member bunnyjadwiga

I love Charles De Lint, though I find I had better not read his work unless, to paraphrase someone-or-other, I am prepared to have my mind be a carpet taken up by a strong parlormaid, hung out, beaten vigorously, and finally re-laid and tacked down with a firm hand.
Though it was just as lyrical and

suspenseful as I expected, The Dreaming Place was easier on my poor brain than many others, perhaps because of its slim size, but the combination of Native American myth/life and modern urban fantasy was definitely something else. Pieces of his ending were also a surprise, since I have grown to have certain expectations about De Lint.

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LibraryThing member LibraryCin

Nina and Ashley are cousins and they don’t get along well. Ash lost her mother three years ago and her father didn’t want to take care of her, so she has been living with Nina’s family. Nina has been having dreams – nightmares, really – and she blames them on Ash, who Nina thinks is a

witch.

I thought the book was o.k. I didn’t like it as much as the other de Lint books I’ve read, though. I did like the 80’s music references. Of course, the book was written in 1990, so at the time it was written, those references may have been more recognizable (or to those of us who grew up in the 80s).

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