![]() ![]() Olivia Mead, our heroine, is not quite sure what to do with herself at the outset. ![]() Winters focuses heavily in her novels on feminism and the role of women, and that’s one of the things I love most in her fiction. However, I think the message is important and beautiful, so I didn’t mind in the slightest. If the book has a weakness, it’s that it perhaps hits the reader over the head with this message. The Cure for Dreaming is, at its heart, a novel of feminism. It all just worked and felt so right in context. ![]() ![]() Never have I been particularly interested in hypnosis nor do I technically believe it could do many of the things that occur within the book, but I had no difficulty suspending disbelief. There’s magic emanating from the book’s pages and I was entranced from the moment I began reading. This time it’s hypnosis, told in such a way as to be imminently believable but also incredibly fantastical. Winters strikes this amazing balance between historical and paranormal in her novels. I have little doubt that all of Cat Winters’ novels will make their way into my permanent collection. All of the elements that made In the Shadow of Blackbirds so wonderful are present here too, in a highly original story full of feminism. Cat Winters’ debut was absolutely amazing and with The Cure for Dreaming it becomes clear that her first book was no fluke. ![]()
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