Blind the Eyes by K a Wiggins

Blind the Eyes (Threads of Dreams, #1)

by K.A. Wiggins

Welcome to the city of nightmares. Don't look up.

Haunted 17-year-old outcast Cole has one goal: blend in with the crowd—to avoid execution by Mara. So when a stranger shows up with a dangerously tempting offer, there's no way she's going to listen to his lies. At least, that was the plan . . .

But when the monster-taken draw her into their horrific final moments—and expose the rot at the heart of her ruined city—lying low is no longer an option. A lifetime of suffocating her dreams and putting every last desire to death haven't exactly equipped Cole to take charge of her fate. But if she can't beg, borrow or steal the power to stop the nightmares, it's only a matter of time before she joins the ranks of the Mara's victims.

But to stop the dying, she'll have to face down more than just monsters.

In a drowned city overrun by soul-sucking eldritch creatures, one haunted girl rejects everything she's ever known to become more than she ever could have imagined.

Book 1 of the Page Turner Award shortlisted YA dystopian-gothic dark fantasy series Threads of Dreams, set in a post-climate-disaster PNW and dystopian Vancouver overrun with ghosts and creatures of folklore and myth. Intricate, genre-bending fantasy meets paranormal horror full of complex and conflicted characters and glittering worldbuilding for fans of This Savage Song and Anna Dressed in Blood

Reviewed by Beth C. on

3 of 5 stars

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Cole lives a dreamless life—both sleeping and awake. Dreams are not allowed, for they will call the Mara, who will first eat the dreams—and then kill the dreamer. So everyone in the Refuge wears the same color and style of clothing, wears masks to hide their faces, eats a food-adjacent paste called Noosh (that also turns them grey), and is forbidden to even acknowledge the existence of others. Cole, however, she struggles to fit in, to blend…to NOT DREAM. Until the day she steps into someone else’s dream.

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