Spanning fifty years, Dream State is a lovely but sometimes sad look at life of looking back at choices and decisions made. Here is my book review Dream State by Eric Puchner.

College

Charlie and Garrett are best friends in college, despite their differences. Little do they know that their random meeting their freshman year will shape the rest of their lives.

Choices

Charlie is in love with Cece and they are getting married. Charlie has asked Garrett to officiate the wedding. Cece has reservations about this, given Garrett has had some mental health issues following the tragic death of a friend. Garrett feels responsible for this tragedy and has struggled. But when Cece meets Garrett and spends some time with him, she begins to have feeling for him. Garrett also is falling in love with Cece.

Montana

Like the Montana setting of this story, the choices and aftermath are monumental and breathtaking. This epic novel will follow these characters for fifty years. The decisions they each made will affect generations to come. As families, friendships and even Montana itself experience irreparable change, Puchner leads us through this novel with beautiful prose, well developed characters and humor too.

Book Review Dream State by Eric Puchner

Touching on important topics of the day including climate change, drug addiction, alcohol, divorce, infidelity, and most of all friendship. Puchner’s novel is engaging and beautifully written with breathtaking passages of beauty and touching moments of humor.

*****Five stars for Dream State by Eric Puchner

Thank you for reading my book review Dream State by Eric Puchner. See last week’s book review Flesh by David Szalay.

Pleases note there will be no book review next two weeks as I travel in Cuba. I’ll be back with more book reviews mid-January.

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