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Prior to starting her writing career, K. Bird Lincoln taught English to Japanese students overseas. She now devotes her time to her loved ones and her professional writing. Her work can be found in myriad publications.
Koi Pierce is the star of Lincoln’s novel, Dream Eater. She is of mixed race, being half Hawaiian and half Japanese, and it is the Japanese heritage that has bequeathed her an extraordinary gift. Koi is capable of picking up the dreams of others just with a brush of physical contact. This power has hindered Koi for years, causing her to shy away from people in order to avoid activating her powers and witnessing the often disturbing manifestations of others’ dreams. Despite this ability, Koi now strives for normalcy in her life. She has enrolled in university and is working toward her degree. However, the events that unravel in the novel provide her with anything but the normal life she craves. Koi’s father is ailing, his memory fading rapidly with each passing day. Koi hires Ken, a seemingly normal young man, to assist her father throughout his day-to-day life as he becomes less and less able to care for himself. Initially Koi cannot ignore Ken’s eccentricities, particularly the fact that he is perfectly fluent in the dialect of Japanese that Koi’s father uses, which is supposed to be one of the least common in the world. However, Ken soon reveals his true purpose for his involvement with Koi and her father. He knows of Koi’s true potential regarding her powers, and informs her of the truth behind one of the more distressing aspects of her life as of late. In her dreams, Koi has seen visions of destruction, which Ken reveals are caused by a long-standing threat that will soon come after Koi. It will be up to Koi to fight back against the enemies that will threaten her very existence and everything and everyone she has come to know. Little does she know that these enemies loom closer than she ever could have expected and are capable of attacking from the places she considers the most safe.
One Publishers Weekly contributor remarked: “Koi’s wry voice gives a new perspective on the problems of paranormal gifts.” On the See Sadie Read blog, a reviewer called the book “not a bad read.” Purrfectly Bookish blogger HeatherAnne Norbury commented: “I will be interested to read more and see how this storyline continues to unfold.” She added: “I would recommend this to anyone who likes a lot of action.”
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Publishers Weekly, February 27, 2017, review of Dream Eater, p. 81.
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KB Lincoln Website, http://kblincoln.com (November 9, 2017), author profile.
Purrfectly Bookish, http://www.purrfectlybookish.com/ (May 2, 2017), HeatherAnne Norbury, review of Dream Eater.
See Sadie Read, http://sadieforsythe.com/ (September 24, 2017), review of Dream Eater.
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K. Bird Lincoln is an ESL professional/writer/mother living on the windblown Minnesota Prairie with her family and a huge addiction to frou-frou coffee and chocolate. Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, she has spent more years now in Japan and on the West Coast than in the Midwest. Her speculative short stories are published in various online and paper publications such as Strange Horizons and Abyss and Apex. She also writes tasty speculative and YA fiction reviews under the name K. Bird Lincoln at Goodreads.com and Amazon. (Because sometimes reading a book is just like eating a bag of potato chips)
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Dream Eater
K. Bird Lincoln. World Weaver, $12.95 trade paper (233p) ISBN 978-0-9977888-6-0
Lincoln's debut urban fantasy unspools a tense plot from hidden family history. Koi Pierce, a biracial college
student in Portland, Ore., reads scraps of people's dreams through touch. Her life is further complicated by
her Japanese father, the source of her power, who has what appears to be Alzheimer's; her Hawaiian
mother's life insurance helps to pay for his care. When Koi engages a mysterious man named Ken to help
her father as a caregiver and translator, she learns that her family history is more convoluted than she had
imagined, and that Ken is more than he seems. A recurring, bloody fragment troubling her dreams is
revealed to be related to a struggle for supernatural power that involves both Koi and her family. With Ken's
help, Koi must confront and exploit her own identity to protect those she loves. Lincoln successfully mixes
Japanese, Native American, and Middle Eastern mythologies in her modern setting, and Koi's wry voice
gives a new perspective on the problems of paranormal gifts. (Apr.)
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I won a copy of Dream Eater, by K. Bird Lincoln through LibraryThing.
Description from Goodreads:
Koi Pierce dreams other peoples’ dreams.
Her whole life she’s avoided other people. Any skin-to-skin contact–a hug from her sister, the hand of a barista at Stumptown coffee–transfers flashes of that person’s most intense dreams. It’s enough to make anyone a hermit.
But Koi’s getting her act together. No matter what, this time she’s going to finish her degree at Portland Community College and get a real life. Of course it’s not going to be that easy. Her father, increasingly disturbed from Altzheimer’s disease, a dream fragment of a dead girl from the casual brush of a creepy PCC professor’s hand, and a mysterious stranger who speaks the same rare Northern Japanese dialect as Koi’s father will force Koi to learn to trust in the help of others, as well as face the truth about herself.
Review:
Not bad, I enjoyed it well enough. I thought Koi was a pleasantly strong character, if clueless. (I’ve been taking note lately of how often plots are based around young women not being taught their magical heritage until disaster strikes. And this was one more such plot.) I liked Ken, the hero, but didn’t feel he was particularly well fleshed out. The same could be said for all the characters, actually.
The writing isn’t bad, especially if you like things a little on the heavy, ponderous side. But I know there are those who don’t like the style and would call it too vague and purple. To each their own.
This book uses both Japanese and Native American mythology (and one reference to something Middle Eastern). I don’t know Lincoln’s nationality, but I did feel some of the Japanese felt a bit over-played, forced into places it wasn’t needed. I liked some of the authenticity (if Lincoln is Japanese and not just a good mimic), such as the male-slang. But some of the Japanese words, especially the couple that were repeated a lot, felt pretentious.
All in all, not a bad read. I’d pick up another by this author. In fact, I have another of her books that I’ll have to move up the To-Be-Read shelf.
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Review: Dream Eater by K. Bird Lincoln
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Dream Eater by K. Bird Lincoln
Publisher: World Weaver Press
Publication date: April 4, 2017
My rating: 3 stars out of 5
Publisher's description
Koi Pierce dreams other peoples' dreams.
Her whole life she's avoided other people. Any skin-to-skin contact--a hug from her sister, the hand of a barista at Stumptown coffee--transfers flashes of that person's most intense dreams. It's enough to make anyone a hermit.
But Koi's getting her act together. No matter what, this time she's going to finish her degree at Portland Community College and get a real life. Of course it's not going to be that easy. Her father, increasingly disturbed from Altzheimer's disease, a dream fragment of a dead girl from the casual brush of a creepy PCC professor's hand, and a mysterious stranger who speaks the same rare Northern Japanese dialect as Koi's father will force Koi to learn to trust in the help of others, as well as face the truth about herself.
My review
I received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. All opinions shared are 100% my own.
Dream Eater is based on ancient legends. While the legends of many different cultures are referenced, Japanese legends are most represented here along with some Pacific Northwest American legends.
Our protagonist, Koi, has an unusual talent. When she touches someone, she takes a dream fragment from that person. Even the barest whisper of a touch will give Koi that person’s dreams. Koi never knows if the dreams she has at night are her own or someone else’s. But problems arise when she starts being pulled into dream fragments in the middle of the day while wide awake. Enter a mysterious (and sexy) stranger and a creepy college professor and Koi’s carefully constructed world of seclusion falls apart.
All in all, I thought the premise of the story was good. I just wish the author had slowed down a little and spent a little more time building the history, lore and relationships. The book felt very frantic and rushed with little time slowing things down to explain. It seemed as if most things were explained in short sentences of dialogue in the midst of a crisis situation. And, while I was willing to suspend my disbelief about Koi (and her father’s) unusual dream abilities, the speed with which Koi’s relationship with Ken progressed (Ken was the mysterious stranger) didn’t ring true to how the author otherwise portrayed Koi. What the author did quite well was descriptive language. The prose was detailed, colorful and very fitting a fantasy novel. There were times I think she could have used a little less of that and done a little more explanation, but it mostly all wrapped up in the end. It appears there will be more stories in this series and the ending is set up in a way to allow for more adventures with Koi and Ken. Now that the basic premise of the series is set up, I will be interested to read more and see how this storyline continues to unfold. I would recommend this to anyone who likes a lot of action. Though oddly, much of the action is psychological, not physical, the book reads as an action packed thriller with ancient sea serpents, golden thunder birds and a college girl who can eat dreams.
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