iaproton's review

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emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

3.25

Quite relaxing, some of the dialogue makes it less relaxing as it can be a bit lively in the audiobook. Mild humour. Quite a bit of description, but not excessively so.
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Chapter 4 deals with trauma in the form of PTSD nightmares and reliving the trauma. It isn't overly descriptive or graphic, but some may find it stressful and want to skip the chapter. Here is a short summary/spoiler of chapter 4

There is a group of angry customers, they are given calming tea and cookies and a calming perfume in a secret room that has a hidden door in the office. Some choose to continue having the dream they bought to process the trauma such as being in the army and school exams, others choose  not to continue having the trauma  processing dreams. Those that continue to have the processing dreams start to heal and gain a new perspective on the stressful memory, laughing it off or seeing where they can improve their lives such as reducing pressure on themselves. They begin to have positive emotions. 

The main character goes to meet the maker of the nightmares, in a slightly spooky workshop. 
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Chapter 5 was a lot of dialogue and not particularly relaxing or interesting, it could have been since it was in Santa's house,but sadly not.

Chapter 6, was rather boring with volume increases due to the dream maker's awards ceremony, wasn't relaxing.

The last chapters deal with dreams that allow loved ones to see the decreased in dreams of a grandma and child ,not very graphic, moderately descriptive. One woman with a terminal illness orders a custom one of these dreams before she dies. 

Moderately relaxing.I enjoyed the fantasy elements with tiny bits of mystery,not knowing what would happen and the slice of life. The 2 epilogue tied some things up nicely. 

I would listen to the first 3 chapters again to relax, the rest went downhill , except  the epilogue 2.

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hopeful informative lighthearted relaxing medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5


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