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Plot Summary of Dream Traveler
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ImaJinn, Feb 2004, 13.95, 240 pp.
ISBN 1893896897

The kingdom of Gayome is at peace now thanks to the Tira Nerienne and her husband the dreamsinger Durgan Ketassian. When the Elasians invaded Gayome, the people gathered under their monarch's banner until the enemy was forced out of the country. The land is returning to its' former state and the ruling couple's child Dariana is First Daughter able to use the life stones she wears around her neck to heal people. She doesn't feel worthy of being First Daughter because she can't dreamsing like her father or believe she can rule like her mother.

One day everyone that Dariana knows disappears and Relezar Vare informs her that she must talk to the hooded stranger to know what happened. She learns that the evil Cha'Kwain once banished from Gayome in the Beginnings has attempted to return by twisting the time thread to change Dariana's present and future. It will be a place suitable to these evil beings so the First Daughter and Relazar Vare must travel into the past and stop the Cha'kwain at the moment the time tear is supposed to happen. Both accept the mission knowing it could mean their lives.

Harriet Klausner
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Harriet Klausner, Resident Scholar



Review Analysis of Dream Traveler
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Plot

Composition of Book
Descript. of chases or violence - 10%
planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 20%




Tone of book - suspenseful (sophisticated fear)
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - fantasy world/fantasy past
Time Travel: - largely backwards/past
Romance Yes
Romance plotlets: - general romance
Spying & Investigations Yes
What is main char. doing? - unraveling a conspiracy
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Time Travel story? Yes

Main Character
Identity: - Female
Profession/status: - mage/magician
Age: - 20's-30's
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Very much smarter than other characters
Physique - very athletic

Main Adversary
Identity: - an entire race
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - a little/some
How sensitive is this character? - mean, arrogant
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Setting
Earth setting: - during "Tolkien" (fairytime) times
Takes place on Earth? Yes

Style
Person? - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
How much dialogue? - significantly more dialog than descript
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