I hope there's a 3rd book that can be translated to English real soon because I need the next one stat!

I freaking adore this cozy series!! I loved that this one was more about how Penny progressed in her job now that she's been working at the Dallergut Dream Department Store for a year. She gets to see the inner workings and how the dream designers create dreams and how the Company District works in the background to help resolve dream complaints too.

Also, the dream journal!! It made me want to start a new dream journal. I haven't had a dream journal in years. I hate that I forget all my dreams and the crazy details and it's proven that if you keep a journal at your bed and just sit up and hurry and write the details you can remember more since you just woke up!

Happy Dreaming and definitely check out this cozy dream series. If you've read and liked the Before The Coffee Gets Cold series and enjoyed that, you'll love this series too.

Thank you to The Hive and Harper Collins for letting me listen to this audio book early for free!

I think I like the idea of this series more than I actually like the series. It seems right up my alley but something is lacking for me. I can't quite put my finger on it. I love the idea of a store full of dreams but I kind of want more of the dreams as opposed to the people working behind the scene.

This is a respectable sequel to The Dallergut Dream Department Store, a story I have read twice and recommend many times. We see more of the main character, Penny, as well as learning more about the histories of other characters and the dream world. One particularly interesting dreamer can walk in both worlds as a lucid dreamer, but not without cost. I continue to enjoy this story and I hope for more.

This one was a disappointment for me. I LOVED The Dallergut Dream Department Store, so I was really excited to get an ARC of this one. It was just a letdown to me, though. While DDDS was pretty low stakes, I was invested in knowing how it would all work out, and the vignettes themselves felt very important and relevant. This one was crossed that line between too low stakes and just low stakes enough to be cozy while still holding my interest. I lost interest pretty quickly, and it just never got me back. The same characters that I loved from DDDS were here in this one, but I wasn't engaged in it. This one let me down and never picked me back up.

I thought the second book to The Dallergut Dream Department Store was a wonderful “next chapter” in the series. I appreciated that the author didn’t spend too much time going back over the basics of how this dream world works or delving too far into details from the first book. It felt like I could pick up right where I had left off.
Penny is a great character (I think they are all written with such wonderful detail that I can see them and hear them clearly), and I enjoyed how the author wrote her with such clear growth from the last book.
I thoroughly enjoy visiting this dream world and the Dallergut Dream-Making District!

I have wanted to read the first book since I first heard of it, and when I saw this book I knew I had to read it too. The take on Leprechauns and Dream Catchers is interesting, to put it mildly, but over-all the book is quite sweet and entertaining. The book could be looked at as a collection of strongly intertwined short stories, with one over-arching POV and a number of shorter bits from other POVs which may or may not be seen again throughout the book. The worldbuilding is amazing, the plot is fittingly slow (really, I don't mean it as an insult, it works beautifully here). The pace and plot are perfect for a book about dreams.

Thanks to Harlequin audio for this listen.

I absolutely ADORED the first book and the second was no different. Picking up in exploring Penny selling dreams at Dallerguts dream store, this book explores such unique themes of:
- getting lost in dreams vs. living in past, present, and future
- capitalism and the consumption of dreams
- good vs bad dreams and the ethics of them
- memories and their importance
- depression and needing a break from dreams
- and so much more

As someone who has no memory of ever dreaming. The idea of these books is so fascinating to me. I’ve read a lot about lucid dreaming and it’s really hard for me to comprehend. This book makes me feel like anything could be real when we shut our eyes and go to sleep.

Because I was sent the audio, I have to mention what a beautiful narration this is. Because it’s a very whimsical/cozy story - you need a relaxing and cozy story teller. This narrator definitely succeeds. My only complaint with the audio is I really struggled when it would jump from what Penny was up to vs specific dreams and other story lines.