Lindsay Smith

"Livia can enter other people's bodies through their dreams, an ability that makes her an invaluable and dangerous spy for her kingdom."--

Dreamstrider

A high-concept, fantastical espionage novel set in a world where dreams are the ultimate form of political intelligence. Livia is a dreamstrider. She can inhabit a subject's body while they are sleeping and, for a short time, move around in their skin. She uses her talent to work as a spy for the Barstadt Empire. But her partner, Brandt, has lately become distant, and when Marez comes to join their team from a neighboring kingdom, he offers Livia the option of a life she had never dared to imagine. Livia knows of no other dreamstriders who have survived the pull of Nightmare. So only she understands the stakes when a plot against the Empire emerges that threatens to consume both the dreaming world and the waking one with misery and rage.

Sheila

Livia, let me ask you some things, ok? I understand you spent the first 11 years of your life in not-formally-called-slavery-but-totally-was, and I understand this may have had a lasting impact on your self-esteem. But when you're the only person in the world who's been trained to do and CAN do this highly dangerous thing in order to keep your country & that annoyingly cardboard guy you love safe, maybe in 8 years you could've grown emotionally? Even a little bit??

(view spoiler)[Another question I have for you, Livia, is why the hell do you feel such patriotic duty to your country when they keep your family in not-servitude UNDERGROUND, harassed by gangs & not even considered to be citizens? Even YOU aren't considered to be a citizen by them, as they keep dangling the offer of citizenship papers to you in order to compel you to do shit for them? While not even training you in other, very necessary spycraft skills? Why is your country #1 on your loyalty list instead of, oh I don't know, the professor that looked after you & trained you to do what you do, or your cardboard love interest whom you've known for years? (hide spoiler)] I DON'T GET YOU, LIVIA. AND FRANKLY, I DON'T LIKE YOU ALL THAT MUCH.

Ryan 

Flavia Machado

sydney 

Livia is a dreamstrider. She can inhabit a subject's body while they are sleeping and, for a short time, move around in their skin. She uses her talent to work as a spy for the Barstadt Empire. But her partner, Brandt, has lately become distant, and when Marez comes to join their team from a neighboring kingdom, he offers Livia the option of a life she had never dared to imagine. Livia knows of no other dreamstriders who have survived the pull of Nightmare. So only she understands the stakes when a plot against the Empire emerges that threatens to consume both the dreaming world and the waking one with misery and rage. Dreamstrider by Lindsay Smith, is a high-concept, fantasy spy novel set in a world where dreams are the ultimate form of political intelligence.

Dreamstrider

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