A review by scotto
Dream London by Tony Ballantyne

5.0

Deeply dystopian urban fantasy with a thick layer of underlying horror, about a London submerged in a weird semi-lucid dream where the rules are constantly rewritten in favor of an evil that no one can name or point a finger at. I found the setting fascinating and a little Lovecraftian without any overt "mythos" connection. Other reviewers have noted that this book feels like a surreal mashup of Dark City, Brazil, Neverwhere, Kraken. But beware: zero percent of the characters in this book are likable, and anyway characterization seems beside the point. Dream London reduces people to selfish, awful stereotypes, and these are the same people who must try to muster a revolution, before the terms of unspeakable contracts come due.