Dreams Come to Life: An AFK Book (Bendy #1) - Adrienne Kress

Dreams Come to Life: An AFK Book (Bendy #1)

By Adrienne Kress

  • Release Date: 2019-09-03
  • Genre: Horror, Monsters & Ghosts
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 97 Ratings

Description

An all-new official, original novel from the twisted world of the hit horror video game, Bendy and the Ink Machine!Seventeen-year-old Buddy has spent most of his life trying to escape the Lower East Side slums of New York City. Working as a delivery boy to support his family, Buddy wants to become an artist, a dream he's sure will never be realized. But that all changes when a delivery job puts him face-to-face with Mister Joey Drew, the eccentric owner of an animation studio.Mister Drew takes Buddy under his wing as an apprentice, thrusting him into a world unlike anything Buddy has ever seen before. There's the colorful cast of the studio, from the cranky, yet driven composer Sammy Lawrence to Dot, the writing intern and Buddy's counterpart. Working for Mister Drew, Buddy starts to think that maybe it's really as simple as Mister Drew says: Dreams do come true. But not everything at the studio is as picture-perfect as it seems . . .Something is going bump in the night at Joey Drew Studios, something that leaves behind trails of thick, dark ink. While the studio frantically works toward their latest deadline, Buddy and Dot team up to find out just what is tormenting the studio after-hours, even if it means tracking the trail to Mister Drew himself.Don't miss this official, original, pulse-pounding story from award-winning author Adrienne Kress, developed with theMeatly, Mike Mood, and Bookpast!

Reviews

  • Amazing book

    5
    By Bleachwut
    Suspenseful and thrilling overall amazing
  • Incredible, read in under 24 hrs.

    5
    By 🍭🍪🎧🎸🎮🎨
    I love this book! 100% my favorite book. (Makes me tear up almost every time I read the ending ;w;) The Illusion of Living was.. hard to read tbh, can’t rlly wrap my head around the way Joey thinks no matter how many times I read it XD The Lost Ones was great as well. I love how we got very lil in Wally’s pov (great character, I love him lol.) I’m super excited about the new book comin’ in October! I bet it’ll be great! I do wish Kress worked on Sent From Above, ngl. Anyway, great Bendy books! I really enjoyed them. Also, Batimlover. Idk if you’ll see this but… 1. Buddy is the Boris in chapter 3. So yes, Henry and Buddy did meet. (Tbh I do agree that they should’ve met in the book.) 2. Last time I checked.. it hasn’t been 73 years since the events of dctl.. batim takes place in the 1960s. Not our era. Only been 15 years since Sammy got corrupted, Buddy became Boris, etc. 3. Joey is not Bendy ;-; I think it was og supposed to be like that. But TheMeatly changed it. Yeah I am the biggest batim nerd ever- ofc I was gonna correct them- (yes I am indeed most likely the biggest batim nerd ever lol- no one is on my level >:3)
  • Ur mom

    1
    By bdjdjdhshdhdhs
    Ur mom
  • lol I own too much Bendy merch

    5
    By Night'fang
    Heya! I’ve only heard of Bendy last year, but in that time I’ve absolutely fallen in love! I own DCtL, The Employee Handbook, The Illusion of Living, and soon I’ll own The Lost Ones when it comes out. I own all the games (including Bendy in Nightmare Run!) and I’m very excited for BatDR! With that said, let’s begin the review. I really liked Dreams Come to Life. The storyline is thrilling and I even got my sister (who hates horror!) to read it, and she said she loved it. It’s a real page turner! I never got bored of reading it, and I loved how on some pages, there would be a bit of comedic relief. “I’m hungry. Or maybe he’s hungry. I don’t know, I just feel hungry.” p.33 it adds a little break to the suspense, but gets right back into the jitters after. The fact that sometimes Buddy’s just writing it like a normal, 1st person book and then changes it to 2nd person by talking to Dot really creeps me out, in a good way of course. Overall this is a great book and I recommend it for everyone, Bendy fan or not. Don’t drink ink like Sammy! ~ThatBendyFan
  • Amazing!!!

    5
    By Eden the Beliver UwU
    Oh My Gosh this book is so good!! I stayed up till 1:30 AM reading this book once,and I didn’t regret any of it! Every time I turned a page,the book got better and better! Can u pls make a sequel??
  • Buddy = Mute Boris???

    5
    By CaribeanSoul
    I have heard so much about this... can I get an amen?
  • Loved it

    5
    By Inkling200
    The book is very nice and has a very amazing ending I can’t wait till the next book I really recommend anyone who reads this to buy this book it is worth every penny! 💖
  • EPIC

    5
    By batimlover
    So if you have not read the book yet don’t read my review it will have spoilers. 1. This is amazing! Shows nearly every character! And explains Sammy! (Well sort of). My one wish was that Buddy would meet Henry, although he heard of him they never met and it would be interesting if they did (Whether in the past or as Henry completes the Bendy Loop.) 2. I feel bad for Buddy! I have been in the fandom for three years so I already knew that the characters were actually the creators but I actually feel bad because if it was real somehow... well Buddy 73 years have passed since 1946. Dot would be in her 80s or 90s if (which is a big if) she was still alive. There is a very low chance she would find it. Underline the very. 3. I was surprised to know that Buddy was a Boris! I thought he would be a lost one, but then later when he turned into Boris he mentioned having gloves and lost ones do not wear gloves so I figured out it was Boris! 4. My theory is that the Boris in Chapter 3 is Buddy! I know Boris acts like Wally, but it seems possible because Henry wrote in the weird messages ink “I’m sorry Buddy.” He also called Boris Buddy when asking about the key, and yes I know it’s possible he was just saying that and it is Wally, but still guys! That weird Bendy picture on Boris’s wall? Seems familiar to the drawing mentioned in the book (The weird one Sammy drew). 5. BOTFORLIFE (Buddy x Dot) 6. If he’s not the Boris in Chapter 3, then he might be a dead one which makes me mad at Alice because I want Henry and Buddy to meet, even if Buddy can’t speak. 7. Is Buddy 13 or 17? 8. Joey can you just die already you are the most hated character EVER you should already be dead because I don’t know how old you used to be but 73 YEARS SHOULD HAVE KILLED YOU JUST DIE ALREADY I WANT YOU TO DIE JOEY YOUR ANNOYING 9. How can Buddy’s grandpa draw Bendy so well? I doubt it’s Henry, but even if he was very good at drawing, it seems supsious that he could just draw Bendy that quickly and that well. Also, if you do not know it, this is all the full list of who is who! Sammy Lawrence- Sammy Lawrence The Projectsonist- Norman Lost Ones- Old workers Searchers- Old workers Bendy- Joey? Alice- Susie Allison- Allison Tom- Tom I think that’s all of them! Bye lol
  • :)

    5
    By Ben Drowneds Sister
    I love Love LOVE this book. It’s like sometimes he’s talking to you and sometimes he is talking to Dot
  • Hype review of bendys 2019 content

    4
    By imtoocool 30
    I’m HYPED for bendy and the dark revival chapter 1 this fall a new novel and guide book that gives us some the answers we wanted to know for so long dreams come ture they say at Joey drew studios so bendy