I won’t deny that Walking Through Dreams (Lands of Red and Gold Book 1) by Jared Kavanagh is for a particular kind of reader. Said reader would have to like: alternate history; a book that establishes the narrative in the first chapter, then spends about seventy-five percent of the book establishing the changes that occurred from having Australia acquire a staple crop that would permit settled agriculture; and then going back to the narrative, once you’ve been given the basic details about this utterly changed continent at the point when the Dutch stumbled upon it. …I happen to like all of that, sure. But even I can admit that it seems weird, when I write it all out like this.