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Land of Mystica #2
The Dream Walker Returns: Land of Mystica Series Volume Two
The Darkness has waited a long time to return to Mystica. Now with the help of the wizard Shadow it has found a way. It will stop at nothing and no one to darken out all of Mystica. Miranda has been called to Mystica to help fight the Darkness. She has been training with a fellow magic user, Brian. Brian follows her to Mystica. Does he mean help or harm? Can Miranda stop the Darkness and save Mystica, and if so at what cost?
- GenresFantasy
92 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 9, 2014
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About the author
Michelle Lee Murray
5 books35 followersMichelle is a married working mother of two fine young men (her children). She lives in Wisconsin. When not writing, she enjoys reading especially science fiction/fantasy and classics.
Her favorite authors include Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Margaret Weiss, and Colleen Houck.
She also enjoys doing painting and crafts, and spending time with her family. She enjoys going for walks, and swimming. She has been known to jump in Lake Michigan with no life jacket!
She has been writing since high school. Michelle took a break from writing to concentrate on raising her children.
She has an app on her IPad that gives her a word of the day and poem of the day.
Her favorite authors include Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Margaret Weiss, and Colleen Houck.
She also enjoys doing painting and crafts, and spending time with her family. She enjoys going for walks, and swimming. She has been known to jump in Lake Michigan with no life jacket!
She has been writing since high school. Michelle took a break from writing to concentrate on raising her children.
She has an app on her IPad that gives her a word of the day and poem of the day.
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March 18, 2015
Thanks to Michelle Lee Murray for giving me this book to review
The Darkness has waited a long time to return to Mystica and will do anything to cover all of Mystica in darkness by manipulating the wizard Shadow. Miranda is called back to Mystica to help fight the darkness, with her boyfriend Brian following her. But does Brian mean to help or hinder help and can Miranda stop the Darkness and save Mystica in time?
The Dream Walker Returns is an enjoyable sequel which goes a bit more in depth, it has action, adventure and a bit more romance. However, like the first book, I felt very distant from the story and it seemed that it was all told not shown.
Miranda is still a nice person, very trusting and has developed her magic more, but it seems that we don’t get to see how she feels which makes it hard to connect to her. Similarly, with Brian it was hard to relate to him and his struggles but I felt we got more emotion from him than Miranda.
This is an enjoyable light book and I look forward to the next book The Dream Walker’s Destiny. I would recommend The Dream Walker Returns to fans of the first book in the Land of Mystica series The Dream Walker.
This and my other reviews can be found at Amethyst Bookwyrm
The Darkness has waited a long time to return to Mystica and will do anything to cover all of Mystica in darkness by manipulating the wizard Shadow. Miranda is called back to Mystica to help fight the darkness, with her boyfriend Brian following her. But does Brian mean to help or hinder help and can Miranda stop the Darkness and save Mystica in time?
The Dream Walker Returns is an enjoyable sequel which goes a bit more in depth, it has action, adventure and a bit more romance. However, like the first book, I felt very distant from the story and it seemed that it was all told not shown.
Miranda is still a nice person, very trusting and has developed her magic more, but it seems that we don’t get to see how she feels which makes it hard to connect to her. Similarly, with Brian it was hard to relate to him and his struggles but I felt we got more emotion from him than Miranda.
This is an enjoyable light book and I look forward to the next book The Dream Walker’s Destiny. I would recommend The Dream Walker Returns to fans of the first book in the Land of Mystica series The Dream Walker.
This and my other reviews can be found at Amethyst Bookwyrm
April 7, 2015
After reading book 1, there was no doubt in my mind that I was going to need to read book 2. I wanted to see what journeys that Miranda would be going on in the second book. I would have to say that this book didn't disappoint me and was again very vivid. The author really has a talent that allows the reader to be pulled into the story and taken away by all that is happening within it. I found myself connected again with Miranda. Miranda goes back again to Mystica to save it from the darkness. She has already saved it once in the first book, but she is back again to save it for the second time. I liked how there was a love story to this book and felt as though it added that much more to the story. I hope that the author will continue writing this series as I have thoroughly enjoyed it so far.
January 20, 2015
The story is about a girl named Miranda and a boy named Brian are trying to stop the darkness from destroying Mystica. But Brian is with the darkness trying to fight it off but he can’t because he’s been in the darkness for so long so he can’t fight off the evil whispers but Miranda can because she’s the dream walker. What a dream walker is someone who dreams of good or terrible dreams.
What I liked is that when they do the spells. It’s so cool and I like the big adventures in it.
Because this is my first really long novel I found it is hard to read a lot narrative.
I can’t wait to read more books from this author.
I would recommend this book to kids ages 10-17.
--Hannah (age 10)
What I liked is that when they do the spells. It’s so cool and I like the big adventures in it.
Because this is my first really long novel I found it is hard to read a lot narrative.
I can’t wait to read more books from this author.
I would recommend this book to kids ages 10-17.
--Hannah (age 10)
May 29, 2016
Miranda returns to Mystica to help re-balance the balance between good and evil. Another dark wizard has been released. Can she release the good wizard and stop the spread of darkness before it's too late?
I'm really hooked on this story. I'm sad that the next book is the last book. I could go on reading stories about Miranda and the other characters for a very long time! I love the magic and the good versus evil in it. It kind of has a Camelot meets House Of Night (without the vampyres) vibe to it. I love it! I fully recommend it and can't wait to dig into the last book!
I'm really hooked on this story. I'm sad that the next book is the last book. I could go on reading stories about Miranda and the other characters for a very long time! I love the magic and the good versus evil in it. It kind of has a Camelot meets House Of Night (without the vampyres) vibe to it. I love it! I fully recommend it and can't wait to dig into the last book!
September 6, 2015
This book is captivating and fun for me. I enjoyed this book from start to finish. I am glad Miranda had to go back once again to Mystica. I think in a way these books kind of remind me a The Chronicles of Narnia. What I wonderful and magical world. * I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review*
May 10, 2017
I will be a relief after reading this book to return to reading ANY book with correct grammar and decent editing. The author is very nice, and I was sent a free set of this trilogy in exchange for a fair review, which makes it a bit harder to be totally honest. She's so nice! And the story is not bad, really, once you get past the lack of editing. I read a few chapters out loud in hopes that this might make the grammar issues and other problems easier to overlook, and I kept falling into a tone reminiscent of Terry Pratchett's character Carrot, in his letters home. If a seventh grader had written this book, it would sound like what one would expect from such a young, immature writer, but the author of these books is a mature adult, and articulate enough outside these books that I expected better.
There is enough potential in this series that I really wish Murray would pull this series and get it thoroughly, professionally edited, before re-releasing it. As as, it feels like a working draft, not finished, published novels.
So, if you are not bothered by bad grammar and less-than-careful editing, and if you enjoy fantasy adventures with magic and wizards and quests, you might like this book. I will not be reading the third book, because I suspect my third review won't be any more positive at this rate. But, I do think this author is capable of publishing good novels, worth checking out in the future. Her stories are creative, and her cast of characters is good for her genre. Her world-building is a bit shaky, but mostly consistent, and if she finds a better editor to help her iron out her storytelling into a more professional finished product, the next books she releases may deserve a much better review.
There is enough potential in this series that I really wish Murray would pull this series and get it thoroughly, professionally edited, before re-releasing it. As as, it feels like a working draft, not finished, published novels.
So, if you are not bothered by bad grammar and less-than-careful editing, and if you enjoy fantasy adventures with magic and wizards and quests, you might like this book. I will not be reading the third book, because I suspect my third review won't be any more positive at this rate. But, I do think this author is capable of publishing good novels, worth checking out in the future. Her stories are creative, and her cast of characters is good for her genre. Her world-building is a bit shaky, but mostly consistent, and if she finds a better editor to help her iron out her storytelling into a more professional finished product, the next books she releases may deserve a much better review.
February 20, 2015
A great book is more than just a great story.
"The Dream Walker Returns" is a great story with a huge potential to be a great book, but is missing something.
When I started reading about the old man and the boy that released Shadow from his stone prison (see, I finished reading the book half an hour ago and I can't remember the man and the boy's name, that is something that can not happen in a great book, all characters are memorable), I thought this book was going to be better than the first one, with more action, better descriptions and less errors.
Soon after their short introduction, the book started to bore me.
There were way too much description about Mystica and what happened in the first book, that just made me think "I already know this, can we move on?"
Then, when we finally move from the facts that were already told on the first book, the book fall into the grammatical and punctuation hole again. Repeated words, typos and a bad formatting that keeps distracting me from the story.
As I said it has potential, and the story, the plot and the characters are amazing. It can be better, a lot better.
"The Dream Walker Returns" is a great story with a huge potential to be a great book, but is missing something.
When I started reading about the old man and the boy that released Shadow from his stone prison (see, I finished reading the book half an hour ago and I can't remember the man and the boy's name, that is something that can not happen in a great book, all characters are memorable), I thought this book was going to be better than the first one, with more action, better descriptions and less errors.
Soon after their short introduction, the book started to bore me.
There were way too much description about Mystica and what happened in the first book, that just made me think "I already know this, can we move on?"
Then, when we finally move from the facts that were already told on the first book, the book fall into the grammatical and punctuation hole again. Repeated words, typos and a bad formatting that keeps distracting me from the story.
As I said it has potential, and the story, the plot and the characters are amazing. It can be better, a lot better.
February 27, 2015
While I understand that the book is meant for people a lot younger than me, I also realise that the target audience is still a more advanced reading level than the author credits them. The writing is simplistic and sparse on detail, with very little taking place through most of the book. I mean, I'm still not sure how old Miranda actually is - She seems to be a teenager, and simultaneously seems to be an adult. Oh, sure, there's a quest to defeat evil, and a quest to find the stones, and all sorts of stuff happened, but there wasn't really a collective emotion tying the reader to the page. It's all 'bam, pow, kersplat!' instead of taking the time to connect the reader to the characters.
That makes it an automatic 3-star.
The scenery and the settings were great, there's a good quest buried in the pages - but it definitely needs a good going over, an expansion, and a rethink on target audiences, and the author's use of the exclamation mark in out-of-places.
If you can get past all that, it is a good book. But it will take some getting used to.
3.5/5
That makes it an automatic 3-star.
The scenery and the settings were great, there's a good quest buried in the pages - but it definitely needs a good going over, an expansion, and a rethink on target audiences, and the author's use of the exclamation mark in out-of-places.
If you can get past all that, it is a good book. But it will take some getting used to.
3.5/5
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