Yarrow is about Cat, who lives in her dreams and floats through her real life without ever really living it. The place she goes to in her dreams is real and the people (such as they are) she meets are real. What appealed to me about this what that as a child I often wished that some of the places I fantasized about could be real and that I could interact with the characters in my favorite movies or books. I think I watched the Never Ending Story about 500 times (almost as much as the Breakfast Club or Annie but not quite)! Cat begins having problems when someone comes along and steals her dreams and she has to figure out how to interact with people more than superficially in her daytime world for the first time. Even after reading this I still wish sometimes I could go visit Willy Wonka or talk to the Last Unicorn. ( )

A psychic vampire is on the loose. An introvert fantasy author, with her dreams, is his victim of choice. She must reconcile her dreams with reality, finally reach out to those close to her, and, with their help, face her predator.

Not particularly exciting or intense, but competent. ( )

Writer's block needs a dream fix.

Here, de Lint's protagonist is an author. The chance one of his major characters is an egineer or a football player, or a lawyer would seem to be pretty remote. :)

She is having problems writing, as it seems that in the past all her ideas came in the form of dreams. This, of course, is somewhat magical, and she has been cut off from this source by your bad man type.

So, a bit of dream world adventuring to be done to stop the bad guy, help some magic types, and actually get some words down.

http://notfreesf.blogspot.com/2007/12... ( )

Favorite de Lint, even if it's a slighter work. Loved the idea of the Otherworld of ideas for Cat. I really wanted to be her. ( )