I bought another anthogy of books, and again I’ve found a few gems I’ve fallen in love with.

Darkness Falls takes us into a alternate reality where dreams -or Reve’s – are lucidly controlled by individuals who have the talent to do so. They are no longer just a place you go when you are asleep, but a highly coveted place to live out your fantasy’s, with little or no repercussions in the waking world.

Like most pleasure-based industries, its been highly regulated and mediated, and with all of the added security, it also comes with a high price tag. Supply and demand at its finest. There are always underground ways to gain access to the wonders of the Reve’s, but they come with risks you might not find with the higher end providers – Faulty equipment, questionable venues ect.

The Reve’s are policed by a security company – Chimera. Individuals who also are always on the look out to recruit the best and most promising Revers, with high aptitudes in the dreamscape: able to manipulate the visages to their liking, maneuver between multiple dreamscapes, and transverse across the barriers into other Reve’s with little or no extra effort.

The overall premise of this book had me hooked from the cover description. Getting used to some of the book’s lingo took a few chapters, but was well worth the time spent. Romance is easy to find, romance with fabulous world building is worth its weight in gold.

I loved the main characters, Jordan – a feisty business woman, who while sweet and strait-laced on the outside, has a wild and playful side you enjoy getting to know, and Rook – a chimera marshal with a sordid past. Their chemistry was magnificent, and definitely made me want to see more of them.

These two characters are thrown together when Jordan gains the notice of both Chimera – for her incredible aptitude in the Reve’s, and by an underground organization who only has an inkling of what she might be capable of should she ever set foot inside one – the first time she enters a Reve at the insistence of her younger sister. We immediately learn more about the dark side of Reve’s, outside of the glitz and glamour of the commercially available and regulated ones coveted by the masses.

This book was written as the first part of a serial series – short almost half-books that are released quickly as part of an ongoing arc (and if there is a better name for those, I really like to know) but despite the shortness, it didn’t disappoint. The plot was satisfying, and didn’t feel like the author tried to end it half way, or before coming to a natural conclusion of the particular story.