“The Dream Dimensions” by Megan Mary

The Dream Dimensions

Megan Mary
Inner Realms Publishing(2025)
ISBN: 979-8999081131
Reviewed by Jill Rey for Reader Views (08/2026)

Seven Riddles Precede the Shadow Hour
Gather the Keys of our Legacy Power
Unlock the Crossroads under the Darkest Skies
Or Within This Room Meet Your Demise
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A ritual ignites this story on October 24, 2013, pulling readers straight into Maple Hollow as Hannah Skye races to solve seven riddles before time runs out.  The Dream Dimensions:  A Metaphysical Mystery of Magick wastes no time establishing a sense of urgency.  From the opening chapter, author Megan Mary’s writing grips us.  Her visual, visceral style places readers shoulder to shoulder with Hannah and Ashline Aldona as we feel the tension in the turret room, hear the scrape of sand across the floor, and sense the rising hum of voices as the ritual begins. Written with such immediacy, Megan Mary creates a bond between reader, characters, and place, making Maple Hollow feel both enchanting and perilous simultaneously.   

This opening ritual sets the pace for The Dream Dimensions. Establishing the stakes, these seven riddles loom with the threat of an ever-pending demise.  But what do these riddles mean?  And how will they manifest? Megan Mary threads these questions as she draws readers ever closer to Maple Hollow’s cats, townsfolk, and enchanting manor, as the charm of the town contrasts with the shadows that threaten to consume Hannah. 

Riddle after riddle, Megan Mary layers symbolism with intention.  The vines that guide Hannah home and the roots that direct her forward show elements steeped in meaning.  As this story ripples with questions of family and legacy, a tendril of fear winds through every page.  Refusing to yield to the curse that has been thrust upon her family for generations, Hannah must uncover the secrets hidden within.

Beneath the surface of this mystery lies generational trauma, familial history, and a responsibility to the past.  Housing a much deeper story, The Dream Dimension, the third book in the Witches of Maple Hollowseries, is built upon a group of women who called themselves the Seven Sisters of Skye.  Forced to flee their homeland, hunted, and burdened with a curse, they’ve created Maple Hollow as a sanctuary to protect their powers.  Now, as the curse threatens to claim its next victim, Hannah must unravel the riddles and confront the past her ancestors could not escape.  Standing at the crossroads of destiny, Hannah is a powerful symbol of strength as she takes her history head-on.