The Cure For Dreaming
by Cat Winters
Consider this: what if you could tell a person’s true nature
just by his appearance? Emotional
vampires would present with fangs and a ghastly pallor; feeble, miserable
individuals flicker in and out of existence. Cat Winters’s The Cure For Dreaming explores this question and more in her latest
historical fiction novel set in Portland, Oregon, in the year 1900. The daughter of a cruel dentist, Olivia Mead
is called onto stage at a show to be hypnotized by the young, yet famous, Henri
Reverie. Her furious father enlists
Reverie’s help to browbeat Olivia into her proper role as a woman, forcing her
to “see the world the way it truly is.”
When Olivia realizes she cannot voice her dissent, and that she can
truly see peoples’ natures, she must take her future into her own hands with
the help of Reverie – all set within the backdrop of a dynamic suffragist
movement.
Winters combines the history of women’s rights in the early
twentieth century with a spell-binding story of a young woman caught at a
crossroads between family and self. A
strong female protagonist, realistic dialogue, and well-written prose allow the
reader to become immersed in Olivia’s rather unique (and sometimes frightening)
world. Aesthetically, bibliophiles and
novices alike will love the old-fashioned introductory chapter photographs with
leading quotes. A timeline of “When and Where U.S. Women
Gained Full Suffrage” and Recommended Reading are included.
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