Review: The Cure for Dreaming by Cat Winters

Title: The Cure For Dreaming
Author: Cat Winters
Series: Stand Alone
Published By: Amulet Books (October 14, 2014)
Source: ARC Copy Provided by the Publisher (in exchange for an honest review)
Genre:YA Historic Mystery (Paranormal)
My Rating: 4 Stars!

Book Description:
Olivia Mead is a headstrong, independent girl—a suffragist—in an age that prefers its girls to be docile. It’s 1900 in Oregon, and Olivia’s father, concerned that she’s headed for trouble, convinces a stage mesmerist to try to hypnotize the rebellion out of her. But the hypnotist, an intriguing young man named Henri Reverie, gives her a terrible gift instead: she’s able to see people’s true natures, manifesting as visions of darkness and goodness, while also unable to speak her true thoughts out loud. These supernatural challenges only make Olivia more determined to speak her mind, and so she’s drawn into a dangerous relationship with the hypnotist and his mysterious motives, all while secretly fighting for the rights of women. Winters breathes new life into history once again with an atmospheric, vividly real story, including archival photos and art from the period throughout.

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Winter's has an uncanny ability to be able to draw you right into her stories. Into the very heart of it all and make you feel like it is a place both terrifyingly new and familiar all at once.

A world where dangers seem to lurk around every corner until you feel at any moment something is bound to jump out at you and grab you in the night and suck you into the very pages you hold and you can't help but want it to happen.

A setting so rich in atmosphere that it is tangible, with characters that are even more so.

Winter's managed to blend the unexplainable with the explainable in a time that is very much believable. She mixed the the historic with the paranormal and truly created something unique.

I loved my first foray into her writing and couldn't help but feel for Olivia and the struggles she dealt with living in a time in our history that was still very much for men and had little advantages for women and being a headstrong one was anything but welcomed.

I loved the blend of the old mixed with the new and of course, that slight paranormal aspect that left you wanting more and turning the pages.

This will definitely not be my last Winter's book.  

*All thoughts and opinions are my own and were not influenced by the author or publisher. I was not compensated for this review.*

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