The Book of Dreams
core novel 2003 The Chronicles of Faerie
Record
| First published | 2003 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.17 (1,352 ratings, collected 2026-09-21) |
| Page count | 538 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780141004341 |
| Internal chronology | 4 |
Synopsis
Dana Faolan, the half-human, half-fairy heroine of The Light-Bearer's Daughter, has not adjusted to her new life in Toronto and uses her access to the land of Faerie as an escape. But the gateways between Faerie and the human world are being destroyed, and the only hope of ever bridging the two worlds again lies with her. In a dream, her fairy mother, Edane, tells her that the key to restoring the gateways is the Book of Dreams, which Irish settlers once brought with them to Upper Canada, and Dana must find it, questing across Canada while evading the dark forces that oppose her. It will take the help of all the protectors of Faerie, many of them familiar from the earlier Chronicles of Faerie, and of a mysterious French-Canadian boy, for Dana to meet the challenge of her destiny and save both her worlds. The concluding book of the series, Melling's first set in Canada.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Chronicles of Faerie
- Series: The Chronicles of Faerie core; position 4 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: O.R. Melling
Notes
- From the series record (The Chronicles of Faerie): Loosely-linked quartet; each novel follows different Irish teenagers crossing into Faerie, sharing setting and mythology rather than a continuous plot.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Chronicles of Faerie: position 4 of 4: previous The Light-Bearer's Daughter (2001)
Sources
- Wikipedia: O. R. Melling
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Dreams_(Melling_novel)
- Penguin (publisher description, via BookBot)
- Romance.io (publisher descriptions)
- Quill and Quire
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