What is The Place and where did it come from? What are the dreams within it, and why are they so powerful outside? What schemes does the government have to abuse dreamhunters' power? These are some of the questions raised in Dreamhunter and addressed in its sequel, Dreamquake. 
 I read this immediately following the first one, so again the pacing was slow, in part because of the long re-cap at the beginning. 
 The resolution is clever, and consistent with the world, or at least as consistent as such (view spoiler)[(time travel!) (hide spoiler)] stories can be.