I’m going to start with the fact that I have no idea why this is coming out on a Friday, when Thursday is the usual book release day in the UK and Tuesday in the US. But that’s what the bookshop websites say, so I’m going with it as it enabled me to post about the new TJR yesterday, even if I then found copies on sale in Foyles yesterday evening on my way to the theatre. And yes. I checked the release date again and it still said preorder on the book sites.
Anyway, this is the sequel to Mi-ye Lee’s The DallerGut Dream Department Store, which came out this time last year (and which has been sitting on my tbr shelf for almost that long) and has been one of the translated fiction books you’ll have seen in the bookshops this year. In the first book we meet Penny, a new employee at the store which sells dreams, in book two she is continuing to learn about the dream industry – and discovers the people who make complaints about their dreams and tries to work out why some people never come back to the shop.
Will this be the push I need to read the first book, for the sake of my TBR pile we can only hope it is…
Verity Reads Books (lots of them) 
I read the first one and it was OK but I don’t think I’ll bother with the next one. I didn’t really connect with any of the characters.
I bought the first one because I loved the cover… I just need to get around to reading it – especially as if you’re saying you didn’t connect with the characters I need to know if i like it before the cover of the sequel tempts me in and I’ve bought something I might not like!
the cover tempted me in too 😃