Where Dreams Descend is a circus-esque book. Kallia feels like she lives inside a cage and craves to see the world more. She finds a flier for a competition for magicians in a place called Glorian. Kallia feels she must go and leave her cage behind. Kallia makes a distraction so she must leave her teacher Jack and her world behind. She goes to Glorian and enters the competition and is the only woman to enter. Women magicians tend to go missing. As the competition goes on, people start to disappear as well.
This book starts out so slow and I thought of dnfing it multiple times. It does pick up a little during the halfway mark, however I spent most of the book wanting to be just done with this book. I’ve enjoyed it a bit. Also, I found it a bit confusing at times-especially with the changing of point of views. I enjoyed Demarco and Kallia as characters. The ending with who the villain was not really explained. I really wish there were more things explained, but that could maybe be done in the sequel. I just found this okay. I may or may not read the sequel.