The Merchant of Dreams

I was disappointed with this sequel to the enjoyable The Alchemist of Souls. The world building and the Venice setting was good. Unfortunately the plot failed to live up to the setting. The characters, who were so likable in the first book, seemed to be competing to see who could win the prize of mo......more

Impressed with the first installment of the series, I picked up The Merchant of Dreams with high hopes and was a bit disappointed. Though Anne Lyle captured Venice with stellar description and feeling, the plot and main relationship and character development fell to the wayside—for me, at least. The......more

The Merchant of Dreams is the second book of The Night's Masque. Lyle's debut The Alchemist of Souls is one of my top ten debuts of 2012, so I was very excited to be able to crack open or rather tap open my eARC of The Merchant of Dreams to return to her alternate Tudor England and see how the s......more

You can find the full review over at my blog: [URL not allowed] Shadowhawk reviews the second entry in the Night’s Masque historical fantasy series by new author Anne Lyle. “Full of vitality and some spectacular sequences, Merchant of Dreams is simply fantastic.“ ~The Founding Fi......more

First published on Radiant Attack - read as an ARC copy The Merchant of Dreams is the second book in the Night's Masque series by Anne Lyle. While I didn't read the first novel, I though the premise sounded interesting. Set in Elizabethan times, a group of spies investigate a skrayling delegation to......more