This isn’t Gary Wright’s 1975 chart-topping, saccharin sweet single “Dream Weaver.” This is Mark Bogner’s “The Dreamweaver,” and it’s what happens when people use special powers for nefarious purposes after their patriotic usefulness ends.
It’s also what happens when someone stands up for themselves and says, enough is enough.
“A young man finds himself on the wrong side of a government experiment – after a rogue group of former students from his facility attack and destroy everything – claiming many innocent victims including his mentor.
It’s up to him and his misfit team, who are just coming into their abilities, to investigate and solve the thrilling tale of who, what, where, and why.
The team soon finds that they are up against more than they bargained for as they sacrifice everything they know and love – including some of their own people.
Did they make a difference? Or, was it all for nothing?”
What’s the abilities? Well, this isn’t X-Men comics, and these aren’t mutants. They’re more specifically powered: telekinetics, mind readers, light benders, pyros, tekkies who can control anything electronic, weavers manipulate and move through dreams, and masters who have a more widespread grasp over multiple powers.
These are also still students who are barely capable of understanding who they are, much less what they are capable of.
When learning abruptly shifts to survival, that’s where the book really wakes up. Bogner’s great at establishing what’s a dream and what’s reality when it’s convenient for the plot.
The book takes its time, gaining momentum as it offers a sense of the world and the characters who fill it. As the events unfold that “destroy everything,” it moves at an edge-of-your-seat thrilling pace.
That’s when your best bet is to get comfortable and enjoy the ride. After all, Bogner says there’s more to come. We can only hope if this is how he starts off.