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drrobbo
Since: Dec, 2010
2012-04-09 04:59:07
I think this is Black by Ted Dekker. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TedDekker
heartsincupcakes
Since: Apr, 2012

I'm looking for science fiction/fantasy a book series (3 or 4 books) that I read one or two years ago. The main character who I think was a writer was mugged in an alleyway and even though he knew some kind of martial art he passed out.
In his dream he's trapped in a desert with another guy (who eventually dies) and is being chased by these bat things. Every time he falls asleep again he has a continuation of the same dream. In the dream world when he falls asleep he wakes up in the real world. In his dream he eventually escapes the bat things in a forest where he falls in love with a girl (the chief's daughter?). The forest has magical powers. The bat things attack the forest and destroy it. The girl gives him something to make him sleep without waking up in the real world and the forest people go to war against the bat things. I think there was some good version of the bat things.
Meantime, in the real world, the guys who mugged him are working on creating a virus and selling the cure to different countries, but the haven't developed a cure yet. They release the virus and the main character is immune. They find out that his blood is a cure for the virus and other people can come into his dreams if they have made contact with his blood. He goes back into the dream world to spend the rest of his life (time flows more quickly in the dream world) so they can drain him of his blood.
It was a fairly new series when I read it I think. I remember pretty much everything but the title and author so I can give more details if necessary.
Edited by heartsincupcakes