Anipare successfully blends Japanese folklore and contemporary life, and readers will be entranced to see the mundane and the mythical collide. This thought-provoking story is sure to win Anipare fans.
Publishers Weekly
[A] cinematic and terrifying story about a collision of cultures and the human urge for connection.
Helen Walsh, 49th Shelf
A captivating fantasy in the vein of Alice in Wonderland and Spirited Away, and yet possessed of its own unique vision and executed with precision, honesty, and feeling. Yume is more than a story about dreams and demons, it's about being a stranger in a strange land, and the yearning we feel to connect with someone ... even if they aren't human.
Ian Rogers, award-winning author of Every House Is Haunted
At its heart, Yume is a compelling story about finding connections — to others as well as to parts of oneself — in an increasingly disconnected world. With empathetic characters, terrifying monsters, and a cinematic feel, Yume is a dream that will keep readers awake at night.
Richard Ford Burley, author of Displacement
A growing aura of malice paints every successive page of Yume, an inevitable, unfathomable collision of cultures, desires, colour, light, and sensation. Rarely does a book shepherd a reader so deftly through the strange and magical while weaving in enough of the familiar to heighten the suspicion that, while this yokai-populated, fearsome Japan exists through the imagination of the author, it might also be found just around the next corner. And if you DO find it, beware!
Jen Frankel, author of Undead Redhead
Yume will leave readers wanting to become experts on Japanese mythology, watch a Studio Ghibli movie (or two), and read more stories from Anipare's otherwordly mind.
The Sarah Berg Blog
The more I read, the quicker I read, and by the end, I struggled to put it down.
Books Outside the Box
With a gleaming and uncanny glance at the racial inequality in societies, Anipare creates a dream reality from our fractured, ever-changing world.
Quill & Quire
A love letter to the strange and nerdy Black girls who are willing to embrace life’s oddities and adventures... a fun and vivacious ride.
Real Change News
The two worlds in this novel create a whirlwind of chaos and colour, blending vivid descriptions and well-defined characters to create an intricate realm.
White Wall Review
