The Girl from Gomorrah

The Complete Bailey Spade Series

By: Dima Zales, Anna Zaires

Narrated by: Emily Durante

Think your dreams are private? Think again.

As a dreamwalker, I make my living by exploring your subconscious mind—soothing your night terrors, inspiring new ideas, or unearthing hidden memories. Luckily, it’s a well-paying gig; I need the cash to cover my mom’s growing medical bills, and I’m running out of time to save her.

Enter Valerian, an uber-handsome illusionist who somehow knows just what to say to make me melt. More importantly, he offers me a job that comes with a paycheck big enough to solve all my problems. But then the pucking vampires show up at the worst possible moment and sabotage my mission.

Next thing I know, I’m tangled up in more fantastical shenanigans than I can count, from murder mysteries and cosmic conspiracies to all-out interdimensional warfare. It’s up to me to sleuth around for clues, uncover devastating family secrets, and dodge the headache of seers, necromancers, and other magical foes around every corner if I want to save my mom—or live to see tomorrow.

With the help of my superpowered friends, I can take on the world. Well, at least Gomorrah, my home world. And Earth...probably.

The infinite number of Otherlands, though? Let’s just say I’ve got my pucking hands full.

©2023 Dima Zales (P)2023 Dima Zales

Surprisingly Entertaining

I listened to the entire collection from beginning to end. Each book was entertaining and interesting. The plot was fresh and well-developed. Since this is a spinoff, I might get the original series.

Incredible work with a wild ending

I liked how all the characters grew throughout the series, even the bad guys. I liked the world building and how the author seemed to show the unfathomable depth of the universe and yet it wasn’t too big to travel huge distances in a reasonable amount of time. I loved how the love of the main characters was handled delicately and didn’t require a perverse amount of sex to get them to be in love.

Main character seems narcissistic to me

So while it’s easy to say that most main characters in books have most things be about them this one is different. While the MC (main character) shows loves to family and friends, does the whole quest to help her mom, it feels like everything is about her - even when at the time it’s supposed to be about someone else, she keeps making it about her, therefore it seems to me the MC is a narcissist which just isn’t my cup of tea.
There’s too much repetition about certain things, ie; it is said dozens of times that if the MC and certain others dies in theirs dreams it could go make them go crazy, we get it, we understand it, no need to say it 5-29 times per dream.
I also feel like there is a serious lack of character growth for any of the characters, other than the learning new powers thing. The problem is that I don’t know enough about any of the characters to root for or against them. Yes it is made obvious which characters are the good guys and bad guys but if I have bonded with these characters or feel for them in anyway then I could care less whether those characters succeed or fail and I don’t like that.
The narrator does a pretty good job.
For me, I take the pros and cons of a story / series and weigh them and imo the pros should outweigh the cons to make it a story I like and want to reread again in the future. This series does have some good and even great aspects to it but the pros doesn’t outweigh the cons, they seem pretty evenly weighed so for me it’s a wash.