Q is for Queen of Nightmares | Book Review #atoz2025 #booksky

Queen of Nightmares is part of Ronel Janse van Vuuren’s Irascible Immortals series, which is on promotion at present.
You can see my interview with Ronel under I for Irascible.

Thank you, Ronel for a review copy for today 🙂

My ten Princelings books and the two for younger readers, Messenger Misadventures and Cavies of Flexford Common all have illustrations. Most are chapter headings. Cavies is designed for younger readers (c 7 yrs old, Key Stage 1 in UK educational parlance). That has illustrations throughout.

But this is also an A to Z Challenge post. My theme is illustrations, and I’m not sure how I’m going to fit that in!

Queen of Nightmares (Irascible Immortals #3)

by Ronel Janse van Vuuren

One immortal. An eternity of dull dreams.

Mab is the queen of dreams. And nightmares.

But when thinking up dancing unicorns for humans to dream of fail to amuse her, she knows that she needs a break.

New Orleans during Halloween seemed like a good idea. Until the nightmares under her rule start running amok in the mortal realm.

Scroll up to buy now and find out how Mab regains control over those in her dominion.

This is the third book in the Irascible Immortals series.

My Review

This is just one short story in a series, but I think it’s fair to pass judgement based on one that just happened to fill my need for a title beginning with Q.

It’s excellent.

If you haven’t read any of the author’s work before, I suspect you should start with something else…like the first in the series, or even one of her others. She is prolific! It helps if you are familiar with Fae lore, and I’m only familiar with some of it, but I kept up!

This is a short, pacey, wryly funny jaunt into the Immortals world, and you’ll probably need more by the time you finish. But you won’t need more coffee, because you won’t have finished the one you made before you started!

Queens in illustrations

I don’t have any specific illustrations for the letter Q. But I do have several views of Castle Arbor, run by Queen Elinor in book 3. Arbor is the ‘lost city’ of the title, because it is a community of and run by women, and it keeps to itself most of the time.

Here we have at the top, views east and west from the castle windows. In the far east a viewer could just about see the towers of Castle Marsh above the trees. There’s a view of the terraces for their food growing, and one of the castle itself. All of these are in book 3. The Princelings and the Lost City.