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Dreams and Shadows Audiobook Summary

A brilliantly crafted modern tale from acclaimed film critic and screenwriter C. Robert Cargill–part Neil Gaiman, part Guillermo Del Toro, part William S. Burroughs–that charts the lives of two boys from their star-crossed childhood in the realm of magic and mystery to their anguished adulthoods

There is another world than our own–one no closer than a kiss and one no further than our nightmares–where all the stuff of which dreams are made is real and magic is just a step away. But once you see that world, you will never be the same.

Dreams and Shadows takes us beyond this veil. Once bold explorers and youthful denizens of this magical realm, Ewan is now an Austin musician who just met his dream girl, and Colby, meanwhile, cannot escape the consequences of an innocent wish. But while Ewan and Colby left the Limestone Kingdom as children, it has never forgotten them. And in a world where angels relax on rooftops, whiskey-swilling genies argue metaphysics with foul-mouthed wizards, and monsters in the shadows feed on fear, you can never outrun your fate.

Dreams and Shadows is a stunning and evocative debut about the magic and monsters in our world and in our self.

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Dreams and Shadows Audiobook Narrator

Vikas Adam is the narrator of Dreams and Shadows audiobook that was written by C. Robert Cargill

C. Robert Cargill is the author of Dreams and Shadows and Queen of the Dark Things. He has written for Ain’t it Cool News for nearly a decade under the pseudonym Massawyrm, served as a staff writer for Film.com and Hollywood.com, and appeared as the animated character Carlyle on Spill.com. He is a cowriter of the horror films Sinister and Sinister 2, and Marvel’s Dr. Strange. He lives with his wife in Austin, Texas.

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C. Robert Cargill is the author of Dreams and Shadows

Dreams and Shadows Full Details

Narrator Vikas Adam
Length 13 hours 46 minutes
Author C. Robert Cargill
Category
Publisher HarperAudio
Release date February 26, 2013
ISBN 9780062237767

Subjects

The publisher of the Dreams and Shadows is HarperAudio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Fiction

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The publisher of the Dreams and Shadows is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780062237767.

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This book is only available in the United States.

Goodreads Reviews

Bradley

November 15, 2019

I think I came into this with high hopes only because I knew the writer from the Doctor Strange movie and having really enjoyed Sea of Rust, but nothing quite prepared me for a full-out novel of the Sidhe. The fae folk. Changelings, a nasty Tithe, and the tricksy Coyote.Oh, and let's not forget the other main story. Young Coby and his Jinn.This is a very atmospheric and darkly delicious novel that really gives us the heave-ho into the whole storyline of poorly thought-out wishes, curses, and the kinds of monsters that live within all of us.And the good intentions that lead soooo many people down the road to hell.I loved this. It's right up your alley if you love Gaiman and Cat Valente. Dark, mythological, and as twisty as you like. I don't think there's a single character in this novel that isn't a victim of his or her own hubris. And yet it always charms us, leads us to wonder and discovery, plays with us the way chaos magic always plays with us, and then sets us back down gently amid a field of gore, telling us that we'll be all right.Or will we?*tips his red cap upon his head, lets a little moisture drip upon his finger*Yes, I think we will be all right.

Trish

November 15, 2019

This is a modern fairytale. A fairytale that incorporates tropes and motives well-known to any lover of folktales and myths. And yet it has that little extra that makes you not forget the familiarity of the tale, but which makes you recognize it like a long-missed friend or relative finally coming for a visit.Set in Austin, Texas, in the here and now, we start with a love as pure as freshly fallen snow. The only problem is that such things are fragile and never last. In this case, it's not the two humans in love that make each other miserable, no. The fairies kidnap the couple's child, replacing it with one of their own, a changeling. Thus, little Ewan ends up in the Limestone Kingdom.A couple of years later or at the very same time, young Colby meets a Jinn while playing outside and wishes to be shown everything. But as innocent as a child's wish can be, Yasher (the afore-mentioned Jinn) has his own reasons for granting wishes in the first place and a past as heartbreaking as any of the ancient tragedies.When the two boys meet, they form a friendship that has the potential to shatter the two worlds. A friendship that promises rivers of blood.I liked that most chapters were constructed as if they were their very own miniature fairytales that either tied back into previous ones or came together with others as new pieces in the mosaic that showed this colourful gateway between the worlds. We thus got glimpses at all kinds of fairies and their kingdom, drank with fallen angels, looked over the shoulder of weapons-forging dwarves, and learned a lot about the nature of desire, selflessness and cunning.The writing style in this blew me away. I LOVE fairytales and have read my fair share - from the classics to modern renditions - but only very few authors manage to strike that special tone a TRUE fairytale has. One that resonates with the reader like a beautiful melody. One that makes you feel the magic and sucks you in. So far, the master (or, rather, mistress) of the modern fairytale genre is Catherynne M. Valente and while C. Robert Cargill has not been able to unseat her, he is worthy to be at her court, mesmerizing readers with the worldbuilding, the breathtaking action, the soul-shattering fates and clever twists.Don't think that when I'm talking about fairytales I'm referring to the lovey-dovey cutsey version the Disney company has created. They might have their place in our culture but those aren't actually fairytales. Actual fairytales are dark, the stakes always high, the enemies vast and powerful and you are tricked at every turn. This is exactly such a story. It will make you rage and cry and tear your hair out. And it will still keep you in its thrall, leading you down the road to hell that is paved with good intentions because it is beautifully atmospheric and teaches you the hard lessons. Whether you want to learn them or not.

David

April 18, 2014

4.5 Stars I loved this story.One of my favorite sayings is, “Be careful what you wish for.” And that saying seemed to be the overall theme of this book. The story and plot were awesome, but the kicker was the prose. The lyrical writing style of the author was magnificent. There are moments of exposition that were better than some of the action. From the onset this book was like “The Neverending Story” or “The Princess Bride” only with a “Twlight Zone” twist. I felt like it was being told to me by some wise old relative, except that relative was a little sick in the head and forgot that I was a young kid and still wanted to be able to close my eyes or ever sleep again when the story was done. Like a fairy tale with an underlying tone of horror. IT WAS AWESOME! This was like having Steven King read a collaborative bedtime story written by Neil Gaiman, Tim Burton, and Patrick Rothfuss, but King was allowed to ad-lib horror in the interludes. You know, just to keep it interesting and make sure that you never sleep again.We start off with a beautiful love story that ends in tragedy. That tragedy causes most of the conflict and plot of the whole book. In addition to this, in another plot thread, we meet a young boy named Colby who just wants a little adventure in the way all eight year old boys do. Colby meets a djinn (the mythological creature akin to a genie not an ifrit) while walking through the woods near his home and has his life changed forever. Both Cody and the djinn want to use each other, but neither has any clue the harm they will cause by doing so. From here we watch as the offspring from the young couple introduced at the beginning and the young boy Colby encounter each other and grow up. We meet all kinds of mythological creatures and fey, but theses fey are nothing like the beautiful enigmas of Urban Fantasy, or the flighty Seelie creatures told in children’s fantasy. They’re predators, victims to their own desires and hunger, and sooo interesting and dark. Even the “good” ones. The author intersperses interludes of text on faeries that explain a little of the fantastical creatures that are featured in the next chapter. This works well, because it gives insight to the characters without taking away from the pace or plot of the story. The characterization of the story was very good. I liked some of the secondary character as much if not more than the main characters. Colby’s transition to adulthood and the impact his choices had on him was one of the aspects of the novel that appealed to me the most in the story. Colby is a very changed man from the child described at the beginning of the book. And Coyote! He was such a great character. He stole the show of this novel, and was much better than how I have seen him portrayed in most adult novels. Instead of being some vaudeville showman, or crafty swindler, he was a true manipulator.I enjoyed every aspect of this story. There is a part in the middle where some aspects are being set up that slow it down more than I like, and I would have liked to see more semi cosmic power from one of our other characters and the action could have been longer. I felt that the culminating action was really sidelined to skip to the end, and wished it was as good as some of the other parts. The reviews of this vary greatly, which usually means to me that it’s probably a good read (see what I did there). Polarizing opinions attract me much more than when everyone is in total agreement. I think some of the bad reviews seem to be more offended by the Neil Gaiman comparisons than the actually quality of the book. The lyrical quality of the prose is easy to compare to Gaiman because he’s the scale with which many people, myself included, have to measure such talent. I believe that Cargill did an outstanding job with this one, and look forward to reading more from him. I recommend this book to you if you want to see what all the fuss is about or just want to read a good story. It’s definitely a really good story. At the least, it’ll remind you to be careful what you wish for.

Mizuki

January 23, 2015

This books does remind me of Neil Gaiman's novels, and I'm saying it in a good way. The fairy lore in the story is finely done, and the plot twists can keep you turning pages till the end. The friendship among the three main characters is finely done as well. Although I must complain that one of the MCs' awesome magical power and the reason why the faeries are all so fearful of him is never clearly explained. =__=

Bonnie

February 10, 2017

My rating: 4.5 of 5 starsSource: Library Checkout‘If you remember one thing, even above remembering me, remember that there is not a monster dreamt that hasn’t walked withing the soul of man.’Dreams and Shadows tells the tale of two young boys: Ewan, who was stolen from his family by fairies when he was a baby, and Colby, who befriended a djinn that granted wishes which changed his life forever. The fates of both become entwined the second they meet and a battle between magical forces ensues.This could have honestly been a disastrous affair what with the strange mixture of fairies and changelings, angels and the Devil, sorcerers and genies, and the list goes on. But it’s far from a disaster. This was an absolute delight and the exact type of fantasy that I yearn for. I have to make note that despite the inclusion of angels and the Devil this is far from religious and never digs in deep to that aspect; they were just supporting characters of a sort. The characters were fictitious and fanciful but managed to be extremely well-crafted and developed. The male characters were at the very least. It didn’t occur to me until later that the female characters all seemed to be incredibly weak and only described in terms of their looks with the one exception to that statement being Ewan’s scary-as-hell mother. All in all, it’s easy to overlook because of the thrilling plot.My least favorite aspect of the book ended up being my favorite. In addition to the story being told from three separate points of view, there are excerpts from a book titled ‘A Chronicle of the Dreamfolk’ by a Dr. Thaddeus Ray, Ph.D. They are surprisingly informative pieces on the factual aspects of this fantasy world but it’s initially unclear as to why they’re included. It’s a vital piece of the puzzle that becomes clear late in the novel so don’t skip these sections.Dreams and Shadows is a story full of magic and mystery and outlandish horror. I so enjoyed the rawness and twisted darkness of this tale and the unique and unusual world-building that fortunately isn’t lacking in detail. Dreams and Shadows possessed a plot with room to grow and is one instance where I’m thankful for it being a series. Queen of the Dark Things is the next installment which is due out in mid-2014. I cannot wait.

Maya

January 15, 2013

A modern day fairytale come urban fantasy set in both the solid, everyday world, and an un-seen, parallel place of supernatural creatures from a broad mix of folklores, who live, half-hidden, alongside the humans. It gets off to an explosive start, the opening is stark and tragic - though I found the childhood chapters less interesting than what followed. The childhood-in-fairyland story is fine in its way, but more conventional, less original, less intriguing than the unique vision of the second half. Everything warms up, gathers speed and takes on a whole new tone - much darker, more sinister, more thoroughly Gothic - when Ewan and Colby grow into teenagers, living divergent lives in the same town. Gothic is the word that keeps coming back to me as I try to describe this tale; a dark and bloody streak of it runs through the narrative - it's not something I generally associate with a story set in Texas. The location, in Austin’s seediest bars and a mystic bookshop, certainly adds a dash of spice to this modern day tale of angels and demons that has more to do with the Brothers Grimm than anything by Disney. From start to finish, Dreams and Shadows is pretty raw and thoroughly gory – not one for the kiddies, for sure. The end appeared to be setting the scene for a new story. If this is the first in a series, I’m deeply sorry that the – for me - best character, doesn’t make it to the end. In short, this a great book by a creative author I’ll be watching for sure. And - having felt so many parallels between this book and my own, I can’t resist a plug. If you enjoyed Dreams and Shadows, might I recommend Entanglement? I think you'll enjoy it.

Bandit

June 17, 2013

I liked this book before I even read it, just going by description, name and cover. It seemed...magical somehow. And, sure enough, it was. I'm not a huge fantasy fan, but this book was absolutely irresistable and thoroughly spellbinding from the very beginning. A good writer will tell you a story, a great writer will create a world and let you have a peak. Cargill definitely has the makings of a great writer, his style is cinematically vivid, which is understandable due to his background with film, but it shows a lot of promise of genuine literary quality. This book was a whole world, close enough to kiss to quote, yet hidden to the average eye. A world of fairies so fascinating, so detailed, so wild, so strange and amazing and violent and stunning. There are other magical/mythical creatures as well, with Cargill's unique twists on them. There is an epic story of friendship and of love and of destiny. There is so much in this book and about this book to love and enjoy. It's a really great adventure, a dark fairy tale for adults who don't confuse maturity with lack of imagination. And it's wide open for sequel, but it really doesn't need one. Highly recommended.

Diego Beaumont

December 25, 2015

Una novela llena de fantasía y oscuridad donde los sueños y las pesadillas se hacen realidad. Me ha fascinado la ambientación y ese lado sucio, tan adulto que quita de un manotazo la inocencia a la que estamos habituados en los cuentos de hadas. Dos niños que se convierten en adultos vuelven a reencontrarse para saldar viejas deudas del pasado, cual pistoleros en una película trasnochada del Far West. ¡Sin duda una de mis lecturas favoritas del 2015!

BookishStitcher

October 15, 2020

This was a really great start to a fantasy series. It had so many elements combining different elements of fantasy. There are fairies, angels, jinn, and wizards. I will definitely be reading the next.

La Espada en la Tinta

January 25, 2015

La premisa es atractiva: fantasía urbana en torno al mundo feérico, con dos niños envueltos en uno de esos enredos con las hadas que tan bien saben tratar Neil Gaiman o Raymond E. Feist en su fantástico –y descatalogado– Cuento de hadas, o incluso Terry Pratchett en Lores y damas y Jack Vance en su “Trilogía de Lyonesse”. En todos estos casos nuestro mundo choca con el mundo invisible, el olvidado bestiario del folclore popular. Cargill se suma así al barco de los escritores de fantasía urbana que tan en boga está últimamente.Sigue leyendo...

Eduardo

June 12, 2020

Reconozco que tengo una especial debilidad por todos aquellos libros que apuestan por mezclar nuestra realidad cotidiana con ese mundo heredado de los cuentos de hadas. Así que libro que apunta en esa línea, libro que tarde o temprano cae en mis manos. Y en este tipo de literatura Neil Gaiman es, sin ningún género de dudas, el rey (no en vano lo sigo considerando el último gran cuenta cuentos). no obstante tener a Neil Gaiman como referente es un grave problema. Y es que el listón lo pone tan alto que resulta francamente difícil acercarse. Hasta este momento, incluso habiendo disfrutado enormemente con las novelas de Sergio Sánchez Morán y su detective Verónica Guerra "Parabellum", o las de Tad Williams con Bobby Dollar de protagonista; en todas el elemento mágico me parecía siempre forzado. Ninguno conseguía casar bien la realidad con el mundo de los cuentos de hadas y los mitos. Hasta que me he topado con C. Robert Cargill. Sin llegar al nivel de Gaiman, al que tan sólo he visto aproximarse a John Connolly en su "El libro de las cosas perdidas", en "Sueños y Sombras" ese prodigio de hacer casar el mundo real con el mágico se hace realidad. Los seres de ese mundo paralelo al nuestro, hijo de nuestros sueños y sombras, resulta tan extraño como cotidiano. Es, y esta es la magia de una buena novela, totalmente real. En fin, que aquí tengo una novela cinco estrellas como la copa de un pino. Recomendable cien por cien.

Beth (bibliobeth)

December 09, 2014

I had never heard of this book until I visited the wonderful Mr B's Emporium in Bath and it was one of the recommendations as part of my Reading Spa. As soon as I saw the cover I was instantly excited, ever more so when I read the synopsis of the novel. There are many weird and wonderful fairy-tale and magical characters but beware, this is definitely not a story for younger readers. The book maps the journey of two young boys, Ewan and Colby from their childhood where the magic first begins to an incredibly messed up adulthood, where the magic just won't stay away.The book begins "once upon a time," as all good fairy tales should, however, I've already mentioned that this story is a bit different compared to your average fairy story and the author proceeds to shatter a family's life by replacing baby Ewan, (who makes his parents deliriously happy by the way) with a Changeling - the work of some very naughty fairies. The eight year old Colby in contrast, first comes across this strange world on one of his jaunts into the woods when his mother is having (ahem!) "visitors." He is given strict orders not to come back before a certain time and in general, is largely ignored and emotionally abused. Meeting a djinn (genie) called Yashar seems like the perfect opportunity to turn his life around for the better, especially as Yashar is obliged to give him three wishes. One of his wishes is to be able to see everything supernatural in the faerie kingdom and beyond, one wish that he may live to regret.On entering the kingdom, Colby meets Ewan who has been raised by the fairies after being snatched from his family. The two children, along with a faerie called Mallaidh soon become fast friends and enjoy many happy hours playing within the kingdom. All this jollity cannot last long in a tale as dark as this, and Ewan soon relies on Colby to save his life, returning him to the world of man. In the second half of the book, we meet Colby in adulthood, who has become disenchanted and world-weary. He is struggling to make a career as a musician without much luck and is tired of the supernatural world that he encounters on a daily basis. It soon becomes clear that what happened between Ewan and Colby in childhood has affected the faerie kingdom permanently. War looms, violence is plotted and Colby is soon in grave danger of losing his life. This is where some of the more dark and twisted elements of the story come into play. First of all, we have Knocks the changeling who was the substitution for Ewan when the faeries came to take him away. Believe me, Knocks is not impressed with being removed from the faeries and makes it his mission to destroy Ewan in whatever way possible. You think faeries are lovely? Think again. These faeries are ruthless, tricky, blood-thirsty, always with a hidden agenda. If Ewan is going to fight against the faerie kingdom, he has to use all his strength and cunning (and maybe a few supernatural friends of his own) otherwise things could go very badly, very quickly.I really loved this book and found myself caught up in the author's obviously vivid and superb imagination in creating this dark fairy tale world. The monsters and beastly creatures are amazing but my favourite character was probably Yashar the genie as we got to hear a lot of his back story making it almost like a fairy tale within a fairy tale if that makes any sense! Some of the scenes in the book wouldn't be out of place on the big screen, and as there is quite a lot of violence and gore, I probably wouldn't recommend it to those of us who have a weak stomach. I'm very excited also to learn that this book will be part of a series and on the strength of this book, I've already got the paperback pre-ordered and ready to go. A big thank you has to go to Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights in Bath for recommending me this fabulous read.Please see my full review at http://www.bibliobeth.com

Richard

August 10, 2014

Dreams and Shadows, by C. Robert Cargill, is a paranormal fantasy that is worth reading. It definitely has problems, but it doesn’t deserve having the first few reviews on Goodreads being so incredibly negative.I suspect the author has stumbled into a trap: some of those that might like this book are going to not like it with a passion — enough to write a scathing review — while those that enjoy it will struggle to put into words just why. That is because the many attributes that make this a good book are scattered, and can’t be conveniently placed in a single, breathless narrative.There are real flaws, and then there are style choices which some people don’t like.To me, the biggest difficulty is that the story has little tension in it until the second half. The first half is good storytelling, but has all the emotional potency that Snow White has, once one is an adult. This isn’t mere worldbuilding — there are characters unfolding, and plots beginning their slow arcs — but it is far too tempting to give up, before the going gets good. And it does get, good, even to the last pages.Another problem is that interleaved with the narrative chapters are “educational” chapters, nominally extracts from books about the fae. While this is a moderately clever way of getting around the “show, don’t tell” rule of storytelling, it still slows things down with the artifice. It is much better than one character lecturing another, certainly, but much of the information given in these interludes could have been elided. Having several children in the tale, who are naturally asking questions, was already adequately smooth way at providing necessary background information.Here are a few things that seem to anger, disgust, or merely disappoint:There is violence and gore here. Characters you like will die, and characters you don’t like won’t die, or they won’t die satisfactorily. Frankly, if that really bothers, you, then go back to reading children’s stories. I’m more dismayed when an author has all of the readers’ favorites survive, regardless of the danger of the quest or the mayhem swirling around them.The author is unfortunately compared to The Chosen One, Neil Gaiman, who is trendy in this domain the way Tesla is to science fanboys and fangirls. I’ve read enough Gaiman to understand why the marketing folks would toss his name in there, but to downgrade an author for who someone else has compared them to is, frankly, a vile thing to do. If the author had made such a boast, then it’d be fair; if not, judge the book on its own terms.The worldbuilding is a bit mixed, with middle-eastern Djinn and the Native American Coyote trickster mixed in with otherwise northern European faeries (mostly Irish, as far as I can tell). Oh, and fallen Angels. This has really worked well for Jim Butcher in his Dresden Files, but I can’t say I consider it anything more than an adequate device. A real artist would invent a whole new mythology to serve (e.g., Tolkein, Herbert), but I’m not asserting that this is a five-star book; just that the rating in the high-threes is more earned, and the reviews in the one-to-three range are too harsh.That said, although Coyote’s role could have gone to Puck (púca), for the story to work, the author needed more gravitas. Given the role Coyote is playing by the end, the gravitas really is necessary.What makes this a very good book is the way the author doesn’t simply increase the tension (and violence, and gore) as the story arcs higher and higher, but how the philosophy that lies beneath the story is gradually revealed, showing the inevitability of that clash. The world of humans and of fae that Cargill lays out isn’t stable, and the character of Colby is a well-crafted answer to that problem, although he isn’t always a very nice person.­

Kara-karina

April 23, 2013

It's an extremely beautiful, strange, terrifying and addictive read. I have a feeling that the author managed to grasp the essence of old fairy tales and distill it into this story.I would call it a contemporary fantasy, because it's not what we're used to seeing in our urban fantasy, and it describes the life and destiny of two human boys.Colby is eight when he meet a Jinn in the forest and makes his wish to see every miracle, every monster and every hidden creature in this world. The weary, cursed jinn tries to persuade him to take on an easier wish, but like all stubborn eight year olds, Colby would not change his mind. The couple of such unlikely companions starts their long journey into the world of magic, angels and dragons.Ewan on the other hand grows up as an enchanted child in a fairy forest, snatched from the cradle, replaced by a changeling, who drives his mother and father to their deaths. He does not know that he is a fairy sacrifice to the devil they make every seven years to keep their immortality. Fae world surrounding him is brutal and deadly to the humans, but Ewan grows up surrounded by love and completely unaware of his pre-destined death.Enter the unknown chaos particle, - Colby. He meets him on his travels and two boys quickly become friends, but when Colby finds out that Ewan is going to die, he does everything in his power to prevent this.Years later as young men both weary Colby and miserable Ewan are still friends, but only Colby remembers why, as fairy magic wiped Ewan's early memories. However you can't cheat your destiny and you can't cheat Jinn's curse, and one wily Coyote sets a catastrophic chain of events in motion to resolve the situation to his satisfaction.To be honest, this book was a terrifying, at times, chilling and fascinating read. It felt like a mosaic was slowly being built together and suddenly you could see the whole picture in what felt like chaos before.Dreams and Shadows is an undeniably brilliant debut from C. Robert Cargill and I wish with all my heart that he continues writing powerful stories like this one for many more years to come. A must read.

Lou

March 26, 2013

Dreams and wishes can be magical and hopeful, irreversible and life changing.One boy in this story has himself been given a choice and he chooses a path that puts himself amidst another realm, a realm of dark, mysterious and unkind creatures a world where the eye have not beheld before.He is pitted against death, Wild Hunts and mysterious mystic ceremonies.He finds himself in this new terrain not that of the natural world one of the supernatural and teamed up with another boy of a similar age for a certain reason, a certain fate shall befall many in this new realm with their lives in the the balance it will be a rocky road for survival for many. There is possible love in the air with a certain female that can really get her grips into you and have you inspired and ooze in endless creativity, for which the main character in this story, a musician, is greatly changed with for a period of time.There is all kinds of beings in this tale one particularly memorable and creative is a Changeling, this excerpt describes their characteristics.“Changelings possess the ability to change their appearance at will, shrouding themselves in glamor to masquerade as someone they’ve met at least once before. Their natural state appears to be one of twisted mockery of the person they originally replaced. Their personalities remain their own, however, and changelings grow up as maladjusted, unusually cruel, hateful creatures who long for nothing more than to make others suffer.”This was a enjoyable and entertaining read that kept you reading with right momentum up to the final page, well crafted with great setting and characters that interest and engross the reader.The Neil Gaiman, Robert Mc Cammon and Joe Hill reader would enjoy this tale.This is a great achievement for a debut novel for the author and instills a promising road ahead with tales of the dark, mysterious and supernatural kind. Review also @ http://more2read.com/review/dreams-and-shadows-by-c-robert-cargill/

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You simply download the app onto your smart phone, create your account, and in Speechify, you can choose your first book, from our vast library of best-sellers and classics, to read for free.

Audiobooks, like real books can add up over time. Here’s where you can listen to audiobooks for free. Speechify let’s you read your first best seller for free. Apart from that, we have a vast selection of free audiobooks that you can enjoy. Get the same rich experience no matter if the book was free or not.

It depends. Yes, there are free audiobooks and paid audiobooks. Speechify offers a blend of both!

It varies. The easiest way depends on a few things. The app and service you use, which device, and platform. Speechify is the easiest way to listen to audiobooks. Downloading the app is quick. It is not a large app and does not eat up space on your iPhone or Android device.
Listening to audiobooks on your smart phone, with Speechify, is the easiest way to listen to audiobooks.

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