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The Dreaming Tree
- Narrated by: Robin Eller, Tom Taylorson
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
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Summary
A serial killer is loose on the streets of New York,
chased by a detective whose mutated eyes
see things only she can....
Shutter Island meets Jacob’s Ladder in the new near-future crime thriller from million-copy best seller Matthew Mather, with books translated in over 20 languages worldwide.
“Relentless pacing, well-developed main characters, and plethora of bombshell plot twists.” (Publishers Weekly)
After a near-fatal car crash, Royce wakes up to find he’s one of the first patients to undergo a radical new procedure: a full-body transplant. Convalescing and suffering from waking nightmares, he answers the door at his Long Island home and meets Delta Devlin, a New York detective. She sees things nobody else can, visions created by a mutation to her eyes.
Royce becomes Devlin’s prime suspect in a string of grisly murders. Desperate for answers, he tracks down the grieving widow of the man whose body he now inhabits. Out of time, and perhaps his mind, he tumbles through a hallucinogenic underworld of black-market body parts and billionaires where nothing can stand in the way of living forever - not even death itself.
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- Mr Patel
- 24-03-21
Fantastic story with original plot
This was a fantastic book which had a interesting story line - the characters were well defined and it has plenty of twists and turns to keep you guessing.
I liked the fact that I was first feeling on the side of the main character then changing my mind as the twists in the story progressed and evolved.
If you like a story with a twisting plot, good narrator the will keep you hooked then this is you you.
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- beegeeay
- 21-07-21
Devlin is a detective but with a right-hand twist
*Please note this review contains spoilers, which start where I have detailed *spoilers* in capital letters.
l have read previous series and books by Matthew Mather, all very serious and dramatic, dealing with world-shattering events and their effects on us all, but this book felt like a description of world-shattering events on a smaller, more singular personal scale.
The series protagonist, Delta Devlin was introduced into this book as a pivot on which to base a continuing series, but actually I felt the author started out with an unusual story he wished to tell, and later decided to enclose the story with a wrapper that could be used to launch a series, with Devlin being the wrapper here. I may be wrong about this but it hasn't and won't spoil my enjoyment of this or future books which more closely align with the main character than this book does.
Devlin is a detective with an unusual ability that enables her to see beyond that which ordinary humans can perceive. This gives Devlin an uncanny knack to see past the obvious surface to the underlying truth hidden beneath. Delta is a sharp, focused and driven woman who just won't quit, so I can see myself reading her further adventures. Though this book isn't really about her. This book is another character's story. Not of life and death, though that is what happens, but more of life - after death.
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Roy Lowell is a man who had died, was brought back and was in a coma for a long time. When he awakes, not only has he to cope with the massive changes that follow a near fatal accident, but he himself is literally in someone else's body. Coming to terms with this life altering event is just the beginning of his troubles. There are questions about how he had his 'accident', how he ended up in another body, why some of his friends and family are lying to him, and why others aren't happy to see him alive at all.
Roy is certain he is being watched by someone all the time, wherever he goes. Outside of his obvious physical and mental issues, there are more horrific and massively important events transpiring around him that he is tied to directly without his knowledge.
The story follows his attempts to find the truth in it all. Roy cannot trust anyone around him, not even himself, so he goes on the run to escape all the attention and seek the help he needs to discover the truth.
To determine who and what he his, and what if any future Roy can have that is his own. More than anything, Roy needs to discover if he could be insane. Is he still Roy, or becoming someone else?
Delta Devlin is only peripherally involved with Roy at the outset, but their individual investigations intersect at various points and each drives the other on to an inescapable conclusion - that death is only the beginning of your troubles, not the end.
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- ben jones
- 17-02-22
Brilliant better than expected
Bloody brilliant what a well crafted book the characters and twists keep you wanting more. Mather is an incredible author
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