Lincoln's Dreams

Lincoln's Dreams

Connie Willis

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"A novel of classical proportions and virtues...humane and moving."–The Washington Post Book World "A love story on more than one level, and Ms. Willis does justice to them all. It was only toward the end of the book that I realized how much tension had been generated, how engrossed I was in the characters, how much I cared about their fates."–The New York Times Book Review For Jeff Johnston, a young historical researcher for a Civil War novelist, reality is redefined on a bitter cold night near the close of a lingering winter. He meets Annie, an intense and lovely young woman suffering from vivid, intense nightmares. Haunted by the dreamer and her unrelenting dreams, Jeff leads Annie on an emotional odyssey through the heartland of the Civil War in search of a cure. On long-silenced battlefields their relationship blossoms–two obsessed lovers linked by unbreakable chains of history, torn by a duty that could destroy them both. Suspenseful, moving, and highly compelling, Lincoln’s Dreams is a novel of rare imaginative power.


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  • astormorray
    Apr 04, 2025
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  • Dec 17, 2024
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    This book is incredibly frustrating. All the things Connie Willis gets right in her later books - the comedy of miscommunication, the tragedy of details, gradual romances - she gets completely wrong here. I don't care about Jeff and his weird ideas, I don't care about Annie, a non-entity vessel for the dreams of someone else I don't really care about, Robert E. Lee. Forgive me for not feeling very sympathetic toward Lee, but that's the entire emotional drive of Lincoln's Dreams and I just. Don't. Care.

    Two stars (well, one and a half rounded generously up) because Willis puts words together well and I'm reluctant to stick any title of hers down with the Fifty Shades of One-Star-Reviews.

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