The Dallergut Dream-Making District
A Novel
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- ¥1,600
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Take a train ride to where dreams are made…
It's been a year since Penny first walked through the doors of the Dallergut Dream Department Store, and surviving a year at the store means one thing… She is now an official employee of the dream industry! She can finally take the express commuter train to the Company District, where all the dream-production companies are located, and discover how all raw dream materials and testing equipment are produced.
But the Company District is not quite what she expected. Instead it hides a secret underbelly of the magical industry that Penny thought she was a part of.
Penny discovers the Civil Complaint Center, full of people filing complaints about their dreams. She also learns about the regular customers who have stopped coming to the store. As she gets to the bottom of each complaint, she begins to expand her horizons, moving beyond the role of dreamseller to understanding what lies in the hearts of their lost regulars.
In this bestselling follow-up to The Dallergut Dream Department Store, Penny and her crew of coworkers must visit a special dream-making district to unlock new secrets about the customers they lost and hope to bring back. Delving deeper into the dream industry and its customers, The Dallergut Dream-Making District braves a new land in search of answers: Why do some customers buy a dream and never return? Will Penny and her colleagues be able to bring their regulars back?
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In the light and somewhat underwhelming follow-up to The Dallergut Dream Department Store, Lee moves away from episodic accounts of customers and their dreams to instead focus on the ins and outs of the dream-making industry itself. It's Penny's first anniversary at her job at Dallergut's dream store, and she renegotiates her salary with her boss. One of her additional benefits is the privilege of entering the Company District Central Square, where dreams are manufactured. There, she and her colleagues drop by the Civil Complaint Center, where Penny gets a feel for handling complaints from some of the store's longtime customers. As she becomes even more deeply involved in the business of dream selling, she must help her colleagues discover what made these customers so unsatisfied and how to bring them back. The stakes are characteristically low, lending the plot a slice-of-life feel. While Penny proves an appealing protagonist and there's some joy to seeing Lee expand her whimsical worldbuilding, the plot feels disjointed and the setting is strangely sterile. Though it lacks much of the first book's charm, series fans looking for a cozy reunion with Penny will still find something to enjoy.
