I just love the Dirk & Steele novels! No two novels are alike, as different characters are featured. There are so many different supernatural people in these stories. The main characters are a young woman, Jenny, who had found a young merboy on the beach of her family's home in Maine when she was only 12 and had never told anyone; and Perrin, now grown, scarred and wounded, and exiled from the sea. There was something that happened when the 2 met, even though they were separated, they started to dream of each other. They both grew up with physical and emotional scars from events that happened as they grew, and Jenny's profession helped her to be on the sea, and she never gave up hope on finding him. She wasn't sure what to do once they were reunited, though, because he had changed so much! Perrin has sensed a danger to the world's population, and it's the members of Dirk and Steele who listen to him. He must return to the sea to try and get his people to listem to him, before it's too late, and before they condemn and kill him. What he does not expect is to come face to face with Jenny (he never knew her name), and to find that she is what he needs in more ways than one! Loved this book! The back-cover wrtieup that's on the Goodreads page is pretty dreadful. That's unfortunate, because this is one of the better entrants in the Dirk & Steele series. The leads are interesting, the peril seems genuinely dangerous, and there's a lot of places where it seems unlikely they're going to get out of their trouble spots. It's also nice to see some of the regular characters from other novels turn up again.
What do You think about In The Dark Of Dreams (2010)?
This is the first Dirk & Steele novel I'd read--liked it, especially the worldbuilding. Merpeople!
—Teresa
Loved the mermaid angle, but I felt like the storyline dragged in a few places.
—kzhlin
