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by Konn Lavery (Author, Illustrator), Robin Schroffel (Editor), Will Gabriel (Editor) Format: Kindle Edition

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A Fallen God. The Marking. Damnation Has Begun.

The ritual set everything in motion for Krista in the continuation of the Mental Damnation series hinting at the afterlife, and a lurking evil.
Gatekeeper Danil found and used her in an unholy event which completes Krista's infection of Mental Damnation.
It is the very disease that collapsed her leaders and wreaked havoc among her people, how will she maintain her sanity through the visions of hell?

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"Lavery writes an extremely good book: captivating, highly descriptive, emotional and hauntingly poignant."
- G.J. Griffiths, Goodreads Reviewer

"The world Mr. Lavery created is absolutely captivating and the illustrations beautiful!"
- Cassandra Larsen, Goodreads Reviewer

"I'm invested now an will continue to follow this story in the next book."
- Jenae (Jeni), Goodreads Reviewer

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367 pages
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English
Publication date

February 23, 2014
Reading age

14 - 18 years
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8247 KB
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Thought to be banished to the underworld by the humans, Krista mysteriously finds herself as the first of her kind to walk on the surface in centuries. This was caused by one of the underworld's corrupt leaders, Danil, who uses her in an unholy ritual to set their people free. Danil's infectious touch gives Krista the nightmarish disease known as Mental Damnation. She becomes the key interest of two men, Paladin and Dr. Alsroc, who struggle to make sense of her sudden appearance and how it relates to Mental Damnation. Her friend back in the underworld, Darkwing, abandons his gang to begin his search for her. Krista finds herself torn between two worlds, gaining acceptance among the humans while experiencing inner turmoil from hallucinations caused by her disease. These visions paint a hellish dream world known as Dreadweave Pass where the realm's ruler, a corrupt god known as the Weaver, is on the hunt for her. Krista's blood is believed to be a key component for the Weaver's retribution against the Heavenly Kingdoms that once banished him!

About the Author

Konn Lavery is a Canadian author whose work has been recognized by Edmonton's top five bestseller charts and by reviewers such as Readers' Favorite, and Literary Titan.

He started writing stories at a young age while being homeschooled. After graduating from graphic design college, he began professionally pursuing his writing with his first release, Reality. He continues to write in the thriller, horror, and fantasy genres.

He balances his literary work along with his own graphic design and website development business. His visual communication skills have been transcribed into the formatting and artwork found within his publications supporting his fascination of transmedia storytelling.

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ASIN : B00IMIL2OU
Publisher : Reveal Books; 2nd edition (February 23, 2014)
Publication date : February 23, 2014
Language : English
File size : 8247 KB
Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
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Print length : 367 pages
Lending : Enabled

Best Sellers Rank: #913,218 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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Joshua Grant

More cool worlds within a cool world!

Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2019

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Konn Lavery returns us to his cool fantasy world in Mental Damnation: Dream. Having been sent to the surface from the underworld as part of a ploy, Krista has always been split between two realms. But now she finds herself dreaming up a new and dark place, one ruled by an even greater evil than she’s encountered before. Lavery’s world building is by far my favorite element of his work as are his likeable characters and fast-paced writing. If you like fantasy, this one’s for you!

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I really enjoyed this - and I am still not 100% sure what to think of it...

Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2014

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“Dream (Part 1 of Mental Damnation” by Konn Lavery is an exceedingly unique and disturbing novel. Lavery has the odd talent of creating words and images that seep into your thoughts, slipping over one another to create the very world in your mind that is described with such chilling detail in these pages. A fallen God roams the realm, a kingdom of hellish delight known as DreamWeave Pass. This place is thought to be the creation of Mental Damnation, a disease of the mind that attacks with a vengeance, subjugating all those who suffer it to die within 2 weeks. As the disease racks havoc on the mind all victims describe the world they find in their dreams, and they all know the Weaver.
The disease has been known as a human disease, until Krista, a reptilian in the Kingdom of Zinglalg, finds The Weaver seeking her as well. The blood of the Innocent runs through her veins – blood that is craved and needed by many. This novel twists and weaves around, drawing an eerie picture of Horrific quality. It’s fascinating, well written and haunting. This may be Part 1, but there is a Prequel and a Part 2 – books I am going to pick up now to flesh out the story completely in my mind.

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Eisah

Some rushed parts, overall good

Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2015

I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

(Spoilers within)

This is a fantasy novel where vazeleads - lizard people - have been banished underground for centuries by paladins. One of the young vazeleads is Krista. She's lived as street vermin, trying to survive by stealing scraps with her friend, Darkwing. They live in a violent society, so life is difficult. Then, she's targeted to be infected with the illness "Mental Damnation" by one of their leaders who has become crazed with the disease himself. She tries to flee, even going as far as to join a cult just to survive, but she's eventually caught.

Somehow, after she's infected during a ritual, she ends up back on the surface world, and the last remaining paladin finds her. Slowly she starts seeing things that no one else can, and she's being told all sorts of different things about the disease. A ghoul she starts seeing, Malpherities, tells her about the god called the Weaver and Dreadweave Pass. Paladin believes that it's a spiritual disease, and the doctor believes it's an illness of the body that has stayed so similar in all of the victims because it hasn't gone through many mutations. Her hallucinations keep getting stronger and more dangerous, even causing harm to her, and no one has a solid answer or a cure.

Before I started reading I glanced at some other reviews. One of the reviews said "It seems rushed in a lot of parts, like the author had plans to come back and fill in the rough draft, but then forgot." Now that I've read it, I understand exactly what they mean. Especially in the first part of the book, there are many parts where pieces of the story are quickly summed up in a sentence or paragraph. Things that seem like you could write entire chapters about.

For example, here's an excerpt:

Through a series of events, she met an outcast - a half-breed named Abesun exiled by the vazeleads for being half-human.

That's it. She just suddenly met him somehow.

There were also parts where it feels like the author might have adjusted how events went later on. At one point, Krista is part of a cult, and another member tells her they'd been summoned to meet the high council.

...Saulaph was acting strange. He informed her they'd been summoned to meet the high council.
But instead of the high council, it was Danil...

That's the scene. Later on, the same event is recounted by her friend, Darkwing. In his version, the cultists are being mass slaughtered by the guards, Krista is being forcefully taken by Saulaph, and Krista is screaming for Darkwing while cultists stop him from getting to her. None of that was mentioned when it was summed up before. I had thought that Saulaph told her that the high council wanted to see them and she simply went - maybe nervously, but willingly. There was no mention of everyone being killed by a raid or her fighting him or anything. It gives me the feeling that the author had originally glossed over some events and went back to give them more detail, but missed some parts.

There's also infodumps, especially at the beginning, where huge portions of the text and dialogue are exposition. There were a few times where this exposition made the character's feelings seem strange. Paladin, for example, was thinking about how they had rounded up the vazeleads hundreds of years earlier and banished them. He thinks it was justified. But then, when it goes into an explanation about what happened, it sounds very sympathetic to the vazeleads, which didn't sync with his thought that "they deserved it". I wasn't sure if we were suddenly taken out of his thoughts for an infodump or if the explanation was supposed to be coming from him.

Another one was when Krista is thinking about the humans and, again, she sounds far too positive towards them for someone of her position. They banished her people, killed the dragons (who had been good to her people and freed them from slavery), slaughtered her family, she's terrified of paladins and other humans, yet she thinks this:

It was depressing to hear that the humans now fought one another after they had banded together and brought an end to the dragons.

Along with some text that came before, this sounds far too much like describing the humans as the heroes of the situation rather than being horrified that they had murdered the dragons. It sounds like how a human would describe the situation, not how a vazelead should.

So, does that mean this is a bad book? No, actually. There's a lot of solid and creative ideas. I liked the explanation for why the Weaver needed blood. I liked that the book makes you wonder exactly what Krista is suffering from. There are signs that she's just hallucinating, like when she sees Malpherities pound the stone wall and create cracks in it, and then she turns up with heavily damaged hands. It makes you wonder if she caused all the damage and her mind is making him up.

On the other hand, there's also signs that point in the other direction, like when Malpherities reads something while Krista is very poor at reading, so it's an something she would have trouble doing herself.

It's a colorful, fleshed out world, even if there are spots that are rushed. Krista can be weak, but she's not so bad that I dislike her. She still tries to be positive, she still takes some actions on her own. The romance is weak (you can see who the love interests will be a mile away), but I did like how Darkwing handled his. He openly admitted that he wasn't sure if he just felt that way because the other girl reminded him of Krista, instead of hiding it.

There are also some lovely illustrations in the book, at the end of some chapters. It's formatted nicely and looks great.

People who are sensitive about rape may not want to read. It's not shown, but it is brought up rather suddenly, and then its mentioned again several times after that.

Anyone interested in a fantasy with some dark aspects may enjoy this. Rather than "bad", it feels "unfinished" at parts, and is still overall enjoyable. I'm also confused about the order of this series. I see in spots that "Dream" is "volume 2" of the series. In another it's "part 1" and "Fusion" is "part 2". I didn't feel like I needed to read another book before reading this one, but I'm not sure if there's something else that comes before it.

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PFID

Highly Original Fantasy Tale!

Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2015

I almost gave up on reading Mental Damnation: Dream because, not having read any of the series, I found the Introduction and Prologue far too long and wordy. Not until I was half way through chapter one did the story pick up enough to capture my interest. There is the usual problem, therefore, of not capturing the reader’s attention with the first few sentences of the book and them not persisting with it, which in this case would be a big loss! The tale of Krista and her disturbing dreams, Dreadweave Pass and the evil Weaver are all well worth the effort of continuing with the rest of Konn Lavery’s intriguing and highly original novel.

While I cannot say that this could be considered to be a stand-alone novel, I doubt I will be seeking out more books in the series – not being a fan of the fantasy genre – but I can imagine many more readers of such a tale wanting to devour the other books by this author. Lavery writes an extremely good book: captivating, highly descriptive, emotional and hauntingly poignant. Not only is the narrative wonderful and the dialogue natural but we are also entertained by a delightful scattering of beautiful illustrations.

Well worth pursuing past the rather slow start to the book if you enjoy scary fantasy with a touch of page-turning mystery.

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Brenda Diane

Dark and Captivating!

Reviewed in Canada on September 3, 2014

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Konn Lavery’s writing hooks you in by painting graphical imagery with each word that progressively moves the twisted fantasy story forward.
The book continues from the previous novel, Reality, but the backstory in the beginning chapters summarizes the plot which makes it easy to pick up if you haven’t ready Reality in a while or are new to the series.
This book dabbles in traditional fantasy underlines while the primary focus is about a very believable concept of a brain disease causing the protagonist Krista to be haunted with visions and an imaginary ghoul who claims to be her friend while a doctor is trying to help her through medical means.
Dream was a real pager-turner and ends in a dramatic cliffhanger, leaving a number of sub plots unexplained and making it quite clear that there will be a sequel.
Can’t wait for the next one to find out what happens to Krista!

That guy read

Amazing read, great writing.

Reviewed in Canada on March 25, 2020

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Amazing work. Really enjoy the story you created. On to the third book now. If only I had a pet shade.
Hope I don't bumped into any corrupts.

10/10 will read again.

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