Midnight Academy - Die Traumjägerin: Roman (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
Dusty is a Nightmare – she feeds off of people’s nightmares. The power has only shown up within the past year, before that she lived with her normal dad. Now she’s in a magical school and has scheduled outings to “feed”. During one “feeding”, she sees a dead girl. Well it turns out that dead girl really is dead, and Eli – the boy she was feeding from – is her “dream-seer” partner. Together they can dream the future. Dream-seers are pretty rare, so Dusty and Eli are immediately put to work trying to solve the murder. Of course, there’s much more than just that at stake here – including a love triangle or two, the politics of the magical world, and normal high school things. Again, predictable in parts – especially the ending. What prompted me to try this new author and book was a recommendation from Marissa Meyer - famed author of the Lunar Chronicles which both my daughter and I adore. Though both series are found on the Young Adult genre shelves, I won't be letting my 12 year old daughter read this series just yet. But more about that later....What I liked about The Nightmare Affair was the obvious creativity behind the setting. Like any first book in a series, we need to set the stage and the players and in this case, we have a parallel world much like Harry Potter - muggles aka ordinaries in this book and Magickind - grouped into three subsets - Witchkind, Naturekind (fairies etc), and Darkkind. It took a bit of time to accommodate myself to all the set up information, but bravo on the colourful world Mindee has created for us readers.Another positive feature of this book are our characters. I love a good high school book that has girl best friends. Sure there are some not-so-nice arch enemy girls in the halls but having a good friend at your side counter-balances a lot of life's drama at that age. The dialogue for these teens is very well written and realistic, an important layer when considering teen readers in general.For adult readers dipping into the young adult genre here, we've got some nice tidy murders to solve...and those are the very aspects of this book that have me putting it in reserve for my daughter to read until she is age-worthy of the content. There is a good amount of who-dunnit confusion and multiple finger-pointings that end disastrously. This keeps the pace moving along nicely to the final conclusion.Overall I enjoyed this first book in a new series and look forward to the next one.
What do You think about Midnight Academy - Die Traumjägerin: Roman (2014)?
enjoyable book, but very cliched and predictable, in terms of the relationships and romance
—Michael
This was such a great book and I can't wait for the next one!
—Chanmeha
Not monumentally original, but still very fun.
—diwya
