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# The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe

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The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe

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## Customer Reviews

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    A wonderful, unsentimental story about an independent middle-aged woman on a quest
  

*by K***R on Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2016*

Representation matters.  That the protagonist of this novella is a middle-aged woman delighted me.  I saw my friends in her.  I saw myself in her, and was immediately at home in her narrative.  If that was the only thing to recommend this book, however, my response would be an acknowledgement certainly, but not the overwhelming enthusiasm I felt as I read, still feel now that I have finished reading, but not finished thinking about this story.The subject of the quest is a classic in literature.  In Vellitt Boe, we have a reluctant traveler, a professor from the dreaming world who sets out to retrieve one of her students, the daughter of one of the trustees of the university where Boe teaches. The young woman, Claire, has eloped with a man from the waking world, and the faculty of the university are afraid that her father will shut down the school as a result.  So Boe, who was a world traveler in her youth, sets out to bring Claire back, to save her from an ill-conceived alliance.  To save her from herself. It doesn't take her long to realize that the stakes are far higher than anyone has imagined.Boe's adventures draw inspiration from Lovecraft, among others, and the world she lives in is slippery as a dream.  Time and distance are mutable things, and the world is filled with strange and potentially dangerous creatures.  It's also a world where women are not equal participants, which makes Boe an oddity, someone who is not entirely trusted by the men she's forced to deal with.  Over the years she's spent as part of the university, she's lost her travel legs, so her journey feels slow and arduous until she begins to recall her traveler's ways.This is an unsentimental story, so if you're looking for romance and happy endings, don't.  Don't look for tragedy here either, or even an easy resolution to the situations that arise within the narrative.  What you will get is a pragmatic narrator who may have found a way back to an authentic life, and a wonderfully clear-eyed younger version of herself who is willing (and I think more than able) to take on the capricious gods of the dream world.  If I have a complaint about this novella at all, it's that it ended too quickly.  I want more of Vellitt Boe's new life.  I want to know what happens to Claire next.I want more.  I can't think of higher praise than that.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Engrossing story with a rushed ending
  

*by M***R on Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2019*

I've had this book for about 2 years but it only recently worked its way to the top of my TBR stack. I very much enjoyed the first 85%  of this book, and that's why I give it 3 rather than 2 stars. It describes a long journey across and under the Dreamlands, using a well developed woman character. In fact the author wrote that part of the reason she wanted to write this book was to answer the absence of women in HPL's Dreamlands stories. She makes Randolph Carter out as a self involved egotist, but that is pretty much spot on.My problem is the ending, from the moment Vellit Boe left the Dreamlands is pretty, sloppy and unengaging. The device of her automatically acquiring the knowledge to function in the waking world robs of us her finding her way in an entirely alien world.  OK, I can accept that part. But when Vellit finally tracks down the student she has been pursuing, the denouement happens in about 2 pages and is completely unconvincing. Yes I just dumped the guy who brought me here for no good reason! No I won't ever go back! OK, I guess I will! Death to all the gods! It does not organically  grow out of the who preceding prose. It really seems to me as if either the author just wanted to be done and did not want to flesh out what could have been a satisfying conclusion.Oh well, I really liked the description of the Dreamlands that came before.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    A necessary follow-up to Lovecraft's Dream Quest
  

*by P***S on Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2019*

Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. I literally teach a class about H. P. Lovecraft, and, looking into feminist angles on the old horror master, I found this. And it is so good.Johnson's Dream World is recognizably Lovecraft's, but she explains a lot (to herself and us) about that enigmatic land: for instance, that its human residents are mostly male, that its gods are essentially insane (to Lovecraft the "mild gods" of Dream World are just feckless), that its sky is weirdly full of things, but lacks our millions of stars. And she is distinctly feminist---there are a lot of male chauvinists in Dreamland. But one thing she is not is didactic. She is telling a story and she tells it very, very, very well. And more than that---after "Vellitt Boe," I feel like I understand Lovecraft's Dream Quest better, after reading Johnson.The one and only proviso I would add is that you probably ought to read Lovecraft's Dream Quest before you read this book. But you should read Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath anyway---if only because it's a truly seminal, if flawed, work of modern fantasy.But "The Dream Quest of Vellitt Boe" is a wonderful, quick, thought-provoking read, and having finished it today, I miss it and want to go back.

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