born into alternate realities with all the fervor of New Years Eve fireworks, but because he writes as Van Gogh painted. Not simply due to the fact large portions of the story take place in the walking fantasies of East Amitys citizens. With its rich scenery and undertones of current commentary, La Sala brings. The characters are fully developed, making the reader involuntarily fall in love with all their facets and flaws. But as he and the others are dragged into unimaginable worlds that materialize out of nowhere-the gym warps into a subterranean temple, a historical home nearby blooms into a Victorian romance rife with scandal and sorcery-Kane realizes that nothing in his life is an accident, and only he can stop their world from unraveling. Ryan la Salas debut novel, Reverie, reads like a dream. Reverie was fantastical and flamboyant, drawing in the reader with its wit and sarcasm along with its expertly built mish mash of the real and the imagined. So when three of his classmates claim to be his friends and the only people who can tell him what's truly going on, he doesn't know what to believe or who he can trust. And the world feels different-reality itself seems different. He can't remember anything since an accident robbed him of his memories a few weeks ago. All Kane Montgomery knows for certain is that the police found him half-dead in the river. that] will light readers' imaginations on fire."- School Library Journal STARRED Review "A fever nightmare of epically queer proportions."-Mark Oshiro, author of Anger Is a Gift Inception meets The Magicians in this wildly imaginative story about what happens when the secret worlds people hide within themselves come to light.
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