When the children of Monsterville fall asleep, they enter a hidden world beyond imagination. A place known as the Dream Realms. There, nightmares roam through endless forests, forgotten stories still live and breathe, and the mysterious Sandman spreads fear across the sleeping world, feeding on doubt and terror.
Now, a brave group of monster kids must travel deeper into the Dream Realms than anyone ever has before. Their journey will take them across ghostly oceans, enchanted kingdoms, and cities built from dreams themselves.
Along the way, they encounter legendary figures such as Long John Silver from Treasure Island and the brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes, who help the young heroes uncover secrets about the Dream Realms and the evil growing within them.
But defeating the Sandman will take more than courage. Each child must learn to face the fears hidden deep inside their own heart.
Overall, this was an immensely likable and engaging genre effort. The central starting point of this one, focusing on the various interactions with the kids who are thrust into the strange world and slowly learn to engage in this building of confidence and trust within each other as they take place on this particular journey, is a fantastic way to get this whole thing going. With enough build-up in the first half to get an idea of the group and what they're about, as well as their individual personalities, so that the interactions that take place in the Dream World, this type of exploration makes for some engaging life-lessons for readers about how to build these more adult characteristic tropes for themselves as they grow up.
On top of that, the presentation as a type of action-packed supernatural fantasy makes for a genuinely thrilling story from that perspective. The fact that this is a solid take on this anything-goes type of universe, where it can draw from outside historical figures or popular characters from other media properties, creates a fantastical atmosphere that brings the whole thing together really well. The confrontations with these figures, or other encounters with the various beings living in this universe with this type of hero's journey storyline, allow them to continually come across not just these recognizable characters of other denizens in a way that feels realistic and likable. Filled with a breezy, humorous, kid-friendly approach that offers some breakneck writing, this has some fantastic elements about it.
5/5
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