Intersecting Dreams by Linda Edmister

Intersecting Dreams by Linda Edmister
Series: Book 2 in Edmister’s Intersections series
Publisher: Mister Ed Books (November 7, 2025)

REVIEW BY PRISCILLA BETTIS

When I first heard of this book, contemporary issues like progressive sex ed in the classroom and a growing Muslim population in the Western world piqued my interest. Add a young woman, Rose, looking for romance, and her humorous grandmother, Gert, not to mention a Kansas storm, and I was all in. Unfortunately, I didn’t enjoy the book. But maybe you will.

First, the author wrote chapters in omniscient, distant narration. That’s fine if you like classics by authors such as Stephen Crane or Edith Wharton. (Personally, I love Edith Wharton’s work.) There were passages like this one in which Rose sees more clearly the handsome object of her affections:

On what should have been a languorous day of innocent dalliance filled with sunshine and light flirtation, the hero of her dreams toppled headlong from his pedestal when he was unmasked as a lying undercover private investigator.

-Linda Edmister, Intersecting Dreams

But there were other scenes, action scenes, which resembled contemporary thrillers with passages like:

A punishing uppercut sent [him] flying through the air. He scrambled to his feet and rushed at his assailant, the lantern beam capturing the sheen from a knife blade.

-Linda Edmister, Intersecting Dreams (edited slightly to avoid spoilers)

The inconsistent writing style threw me out of my reading. Then again, a good plot can trump all sorts of mismatches between reading and writing styles. Except that the villain who drew so much of my attention and created so much danger for the characters disappeared in the first quarter of the story. I expected him to lurk in the background throughout the middle of the book and reappear at the climax, but he was gone gone and took the story’s suspense with him.

Just an aside: Animal lovers may need a trigger warning for this book.

Still, Rose was a sweet character (though she got a little shallow for my tastes concerning a certain wedding and her friend Amy’s makeover), and Tim, the man restoring an old homestead, was a capable, warmhearted character. Together Rose and Tim illuminated the themes of forgiveness and of sticking to God’s way instead of thinking our ways are better even when, or maybe especially when, it comes to romance.

Overall, this was not my type of book, but if you enjoy sweet characters and humorous grandmothers, this may be your type of book. Intersecting Dreams gets three good-but-not-great fish from me.

I received an e-copy of Intersecting Dreams from the author for review.