Beatrice Whaley , booster of Lora Innes ’ webcomicThe Dreamer , never cared much for the full-bodied story of her Massachusetts town , until one night when she closed her eye and found herself in the midriff of the American Revolution . Now every fourth dimension she sleeps , she ’s caught up in the drama , romanticism , and terror of men oppose for American Independence , and her log Z’s life becomes far more important than her waking one .
Bea Whaley ’s aged year is off to a great showtime . She ’s drive good friends . She ’s the star of her play club , and Ben Cato , the dreamboat football player she ’s been in love with since newcomer year , finally like her back . But that ’s nothing equate to the turmoil she feels when she falls asleep . When she sleeps , she ’s still Beatrice Whaley , but she ’s the Beatrice of more than 200 years ago , the girl of a Tory who has fallen for a affluent apple Fannie Merritt Farmer with dreams of American sovereignty .
Alan Warren is an American rebel whose dearest of res publica may be trumped only by his beloved of young Beatrice . He take chances everything to deliver her from her British abductor , and is determined to see her safe for the balance of the war , even if she does n’t call up who he is . travel to 1776 may give Beatrice a backstory , but it ’s a account of which she has no storage .
At first , the dream seem little more than that — sexy , adventurous dream . But as she gets more view up in her nocturnal revolutionary escapades , Bea start to believe that she ’s really traveling back in time . The more engage she becomes in the past , however , the more she finds herself overlook her present tense : sniping at her supporter , ditch schoolhouse , and escape hot and cold-blooded with her new gallant , all so she can get way too much shuteye .
And who could blame her ? Innes speedily recognise that the Revolutionary War is far richer and more interesting stage setting than Bea ’s suburban mellow school , and the majority of the first few hundred pages of The Dreamer are set in the past tense — to the item where the conceit of a escapist from our present seems extraneous , a pointless lure to head us to a art object of romantic historical fable . But step by step , the account begins to turn over darker . During her first few visits to the past tense , Bea was coast on her meager cognition of American history . ( She ’s too poor a educatee even to know that unsound thing are in store for her newfangled crony Nathan Hale . ) But she before long larn that war mean death , and agnise that her miraculous ability to access Wikipedia may give the rebels an edge with minimal risk of infection to the people in the past she ’s come to love . However , catch enough sleep to aid the past times may think of risking her animation in the present — socially , emotionally , and perhaps even physically .
Even before it turns into a bona fide time - travel story , however , The Dreamer is good enjoyable as a historical romance , one that mold the likes of Alexander Hamilton and George Washington as bit player while exploring beloved in a clip of violence and political upthrow . And while the Bea Whaley of the present behaves as a bad , selfish child , the Bea Whaley of the American Revolution is spunky , fast on her feet , and convinced that the colony will win their independency . Why would n’t she bid to stay in the time that brings out the best version of herself with the people who see it ?
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