(I received a free copy of this book from Net Galley in exchange for an honest review.)

In a nightmare world of darkness and violence lies a city that is home to those who inhabit the dreams of the living, those who sleep in daylight and struggle to survive the night.
But there are some who break the rules, who believe there may be something better out there beyond their city of dreams, those who run in search of a promised land of sunshine and peace.
Enter the Dreamcatchers, an elite law enforcement unit assigned to hunt down runners and bring them back, dead or alive. Monk is one of the best, a dark and brooding, by-the-book Dreamcatcher with a reputation for extreme violence. But when his enigmatic wife Julia runs, Monk must break the rules himself, and find her before fate or his fellow Dreamcatchers do.
In a hallucinatory quest for redemption, Monk chases the woman he loves across a city of nightmares and into the wastelands, where unimaginable horrors and wonders await them both, and soon learns there are realities far deadlier than their prison of darkness, his love for Julia or a life together in the light.
This is the world of darkness, of endless night and doomed dreams. This is the beginning and the end.
This is Babylon Terminal.

I have read a number of Greg Gifune's novels over the last few years and was keen on seeing what this work was like...

...and, you know what, I am still trying to work it out. There were times in this story, especially the first 1/3 of the book, that I was right there, right into the story. Then, as the ending approached, I felt like I had been left behind in a trail of weird smoke, not knowing where anything was or where the plot was going. It all went kinda pear-shaped for me and really lessened the effect the story was aiming for.

Maybe with a bit more reflection, this will turn out to be a very cool book - but for now I am still feeling a little confused by the ending and the whole "story-inside-a-story" aspect.


Paul
ARH