In the Land of Dreams - a (very long) Novel

In the Land of Dreams – A (very long) Novel

I received a DIGITAL Advance Reader Copy of this book from #NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. From the publisher –

In the Land of Dreams is the story of a man who believes he is being stalked by the ghost of an ancestor, who, for reasons unknown, has returned to lower Manhattan, where he owned a tavern in the 1680s. Eventually the ghostly stalker is taken into the city-sponsored residential program in which our narrator lives, and reveals himself to be his troubled ancestor. He tells a story of violent and irrevocable events that caused a curse to be placed on their family. Both men are looking for redemption, the ancestor through confessing his role in the long-ago troubles and the narrator by finding the right way to interpret these shocking events...

Oh, boy, what a long and sometimes too detailed book. It starts out well enough with Barndt going into a facility after taking about suicide in an ER because an ancestor is stalking him. Barndt finds out his family was one of the first to be in New Amsterdam/NYC – we know this because the author goes on and on and on about every detail in every little story and occurance through all 400+ pages of the book.

It is a well-written book but have you ever just wanted to say, “GET TO THE POINT!!!”??? The book is too darn long and filled with minutiae that I do not care about – well written but way too wordy. I can only give it 2 stars as I found myself skipping through it just to get to the end and be done with it!