cw: mention of rape, mention of adult in the relationship with a minor (teacher and 17yo student)

Intresting concept, lively characters, fast paced and enjoyable. But mentioned cw definetely affected my enjoyment overall. ( )

Poison Sleep is the second of the Marla Mason novels by T.A. Pratt.

Plot:
Marla has her plate full once more: a young woman escaped from the Blackwing Institute where all the magicians too unstable and to dangerous to stay out in the world are being kept. That particular woman, Genevieve, is deeply traumatized, has been in asleep for years and has the ability to re-weave reality just by wishing it so. As if that wasn’t enough, a renegade Slow Assassin has come to her city to kill, with his organization at his heel to rein him in. With all of that to deal with, looking for a new assistant, dodging the usual attempts on her own life and redistributing the power in the city between the various mages seems barely worth mentioning.

Poison Sleep is an absolutely satisfying sequel to a book I loved. It’s imaginative, fast-paced and has great characters. It made me like the series even more.

Read more on my blog: https://kalafudra.com/2016/06/01/poison-sleep-t-a-pratt/ ( )

The sequel to [b:Blood Engines|1937288|Blood Engines (Marla Mason, Book 1)|T.A. Pratt|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190583675s/1937288.jpg|1939817].

POISON SLEEP is the second book in the Marla Mason urban fantasy series, and it’s almost as good as the first. I would give it 4.5 stars out of 5.
The imaginative world that Marla lives in just gets more interesting with the addition of a dreamworld that people are falling in and out of. This dreamworld belongs to one woman, Genevieve, who is an escaped patient from the Blackwing Institute for criminally insane sorcerers. Marla must stop Genevieve before her dreamworld touches too many people, and brings the city of Felport to ruin.
The fantasy elements are superbly drawn, and the characters have actual character, although a longer book wouldn’t have hurt in order to examine them more thoroughly. Marla isn’t my favorite heroine, she swears too much among other things, but once I get past those unnecessary elements of the story I really enjoy the fast pace of the action.
If you liked BLOOD ENGINES, you will like POISON SLEEP. I’m looking forward to book #3 – DEAD REIGN!
~Stephanie ( )

I unfortunately misplaced this a short way from the end which bonked the momentum and probably skewed my star rating ( )