Dreams and Shadows

"A potent introduction to a world where the wondrous is rarely wonderful, the best intentions are guaranteed to roam farthest astray, and the reader is destined to keep turning the pages until the (somewhat) bitter end." -- BookPage

"Hard to put down...definitely going to attract readers of contemporary fantasy, particular those who enjoy Neil Gaiman's adult books or Lev Grossman's The Magicians." -- Library Journal

"Richly imagined...an auspicious debut." -- Booklist

"Thoroughly enchanting." -- Starburstmagazine.com

"Dark, comedic, and unsettling, Dreams and Shadows is everything an urban fantasy sets out to be." -- Tor.com

"Cargill proves with Dreams and Shadows that he's not just a writer capable of creating and presenting dense mythology well...but that he is also a talented storyteller with a visual sense about his prose that edges on riveting." -- Breitbart/ Big Hollywood

"The rich language, world building, and moral questions posed make for fascinating reading. Much of the novel is dark, but hope and redemption form the bedrock of the complex characters." -- SFRevu

"Screenwriter and former film critic C. Robert Cargill's urban fantasy novel creates a rich universe full of dangerous and fascinating characters....the world that Cargill has created here is too rich to abandon." -- MTV Geek

"Exceptional worldbuilding, sure-handed plotting and well-rounded characters, even the nasty ones, abound, and the whole impressive enterprise moves smartly along through a fairy culture with a structure and motivations sharply different from that of humans. A mesmerizing and highly original debut." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"In this beautifully written debut.... The universe is richly detailed, and issues of destiny and sacrifice give the story depth...for those that enjoy a rollercoaster ride into the depths of strangeness and despair." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)