Yikes. Hearing that, I'm especially reluctant to go back to The Deviant Strain. I hate Russian stereotypes. The cardboard Russian villains were the only part of the TW novel Trace Memory I didn't like... they almost ruined an otherwise excellent book for me.

The plot for Stealers of Dreams was pretty good! In the beginning, it felt a LOT like a satire by James Morrow called "City of Truth". I wouldn't be surprised if the idea was based on that. But the premise departs about halfway through, and I didn't see some of the twists coming.