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You'd never know this is Matthew Field's first novel. His ability to use words that imaginatively bring the reader right into the feeling of what the main characters are thinking and experiencing is compelling. He is an extraordinary writer and has an amazing, written communicative style. The Dream Seeker has an intriguing sub-story within a larger story, but you don't realize it until the end of the book. It's simply fascinating.
The author takes the reader through a series of events, some of which are tragic, yet completely realistic. Events that are a necessary part of character development, sketching the framework for the overall story. A roller coaster ride of emotions and events that lead you wondering, then fill you with awe and amazement.
The initial tragic story is overcome by another beautifully written, captivating love story. A love story that is sexy, passionate and full of magnetism. Based on the author's deep and intimate style of writing, more details on the romantic experiences would have been very enjoyable. Yet, this alluring love story is not the main purpose, or intent of the book. The way the love sub-story ends is shocking, full of suspense, completely unexpected. Subsequently, it points you in the direction of what the larger picture is, the true overall point of the book.
It's a crossword puzzle like none other. It twists and turns, makes you go back and forth, up and down. In the end, the completed puzzle will amaze you. It's shocking. The last chapters leave you with an out loud "a ha!" and an "oh my goodness!" and a tissue full of tears. A grand slam of an ending.
The overall message of the book is profoundly clever. So clever that I'm not sure every reader will decipher it. Are you up for the challenge? Keep your eyes open, and allow your mind to follow. You may find yourself reevaluating your life, your dreams, and what you would do to achieve them.
Durling
Nov 16, 2010
Raw, unusual, and unexpectedly entertaining
Just about everyone is familiar with the Make-A-Wish Foundation, right? Well, that, with a twist, is the premise for Matthew S. Field?s novel, ?The Dream Seeker.?
A decade ago, the wife of former New York Yankees prospect Quinn Powers lost her battle with cancer. All at once, Quinn lost his best friend, quit his career as a successful investment counselor, and withdrew from his social circles. After embarking on a soul-searching journey, Quinn returns home to Warwick, New York and creates Life Dreams, which is like a Make-A-Wish Foundation. Instead of fulfilling dreams for terminally ill young people, however, Quinn offers his exclusive service to adult women who are terminally ill and who have no one else on whom to rely for support.
In the meantime, Skylar Smart agrees to marry Taylor Kerr. Skylar is a successful attorney in Chicago whose emotional needs were neglected during her childhood. As a result, she takes on Taylor, a shallow, spoiled, philandering man, as her husband, hoping her love can change him. It was a decision that Skylar grows to regret.
After beating her cervical cancer two years earlier, Skylar learns her disease has returned and metastacized. Rather than undergoing treatment, which, she believes, would be extremely unpleasant and diminish her quality of life without prolonging it, she contacts Life Dreams. Skylar becomes a Dream Seeker and embarks with Quinn on a physical and emotional journey.
Readers will find Matthew S. Field?s first fiction title affecting. (Field had previously written two illustrated books, ?Father Like A Tree? and ?The Three Pigs, Business School, and Wolfe Hash Stew.?) The idea of Life Dreams is distinctive, and Field tells Quinn?s and Skylar?s story in a surprisingly intimate way. While Quinn and Skylar actually engage two antagonists, namely Skylar?s cancer and Taylor Kerr, another storyline, Quinn?s battle with his own ghosts and demons, wraps around. As a result, there are a number of climaxes and denouments throughout the story, while the final resolution simultaneously ties up very nicely the loose ends and leaves a lingering question for readers to ponder.
In all, the Indie-published ?The Dream Seeker? is a raw, unusual, and an unexpectedly entertaining novel, which, although it will speak more directly to some readers than others considering the subject matter, is likely to be enjoyed by just about any reader of fiction. ?The Dream Seeker? even has the potential to become an underground classic.
