Reviews - Wildest Dreams | The StoryGraph

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This book was SO GOOD! It was unique, interesting, adventurous, and sweet. I really enjoyed how different Wildest Dreams was from all the other books out there. Of all the Kristen Ashley books I've read, this one is, by far, my favorite. I absolutely adored Frey.

He was so strong, rough, and manly, yet so sweet, gentle, and loving. I would love to be his "wee one". Finne was a bold woman of strong, adventurous character.

I greatly appreciated her fearless spirit and the devotion she had to her love, Frey.

"She waits for me at windows and buys me dragons. There are reasons we walk this earth, I'm coming to realize mine."

The kind of love that Frey and Finnie shared was beautiful.

"I'm in love with you. So in love, I'll never stop loving you. Not ever. You, everything about you is beyond my wildest dreams."

Wildest Dreams encompassed everything I could possibly want in a book. It was a great and interesting read. I would highly recommend this book.

""Love is," she whispered to the night, "everything.""

katrindavidson's review against another edition

No, Not for me. DNF at 27%.

Ashleys uses of describing every detail of what the characters are wearing and the surroundings.. It was terrible. The Hero is so alpha he's a dick.He doesn't listen at all. I'm no longer up for heroes like this anymore.

The heroines use of AWESOME, DUDE, TOTALLY. Nope, bye-bye.

No rating and I am going to read book three as it was recommended to me but I'm getting similar vibes.

katieboh's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

feelinsoso's review against another edition

2.0

So many ellipses, so little plot. If you have to skip entire weeks/months every other chapter, it's not a good sign. That's CHEATING. That's just a lazy way to justify how the relationship between the two main characters develops while literally nothing happens. It's like two characters bonding off screen in a film?! Needless to say, I was really disappointed by this book.

The FMC's personality and how it clashed with the time/world travel scenario solely explain the 2 stars. Finnie does have some good sass, and is enough of a resilient character to create interesting situations.
However, the MMC's behaviour and all his choices SUNK the book for me. He's such a dick, I was waiting for a big redeeming arc, or at least a good grovelling scene, but no dice.

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He tampers with her birth control and gives a whole-ass justification, a full paragraph!, to his best friend, which we are supposed to take at face value because he's from another world?? No Sir, manipulating a woman's body to achieve your own ends is a universal red flag.

It's actually so disgusting that the only way the author found to make Finnie stomach his utter betrayal is

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by *temporarily* killing him :D - which I think is hilarious. She's spitting mad, raging at him one second, and he goes down with a few arrows the next, turning her into this blubbering mess. Cue ANOTHER ellipsis, and he just comes back with dragons to save the day. It's like nothing can happen in the story without him being around.

Geez.

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Also, I wanted dragons - there's one on the cover?? - but they only made a flash appearance towards the end, and they are officially the blandest fucking dragons in the history of fantasy.

Such a let down.

kimby9's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

dapper's review against another edition

3.0

This is the story of a very special snowflake named MarySu- I mean.. Finny. The special snowflake lands in the ice kingdom and takes the place of her evil twin with the same name. She’s incredibly beautiful, funny, kind. She’s become skilled at archery to relate to her twins father. She’s learned to dance well for the courts. She’s learned daggers for her husband. She’s even brought a small abused child completely out of his shell. Oh. And she’s able to do horse tricks. All of this within 5 months!

So yeah. She’s all around perfect.

There is a lot of over detailing and drawn-out descriptions that waste time; in the sense that they’re not pertinent to the progression of the story.

What really galls me is the SLANG. Complete overuse of “oh my god!” and “how cool!” and “wow, totally!” in the narration. And “freaking” I get that it’s supposed to be how the girl thinks and talks BUT as I’m trying to read the story and get into it, her valley girl rhetoric is extremely detracting. Used sparingly, it would still convey her personality and mindset without making the literature seem like an elongated twitter post.

Short and sweet: She’s annoying.

Whether the story being told is interesting enough to overshadow the prior or I’m so hard up for good books right now that I’m settling (everything I want is either on hold or too pricey to risk)

dirtymartini's review against another edition

1.0

Went back and re-read this and not only do I think the H didn't grovel enough, I don't think he ever did at all. Plus the h actually apologizes to HIM on more than one occasion. I thought the ending was depressing. He almost apologizes but in a back handed way because he's trying to stop HER grovelling to him. Honestly I hate it when the h apologizes when she shouldn't.

There were some great bits in the story, but mostly that's over in the first quarter. Then it's the blame game and his man whoring past. ICK.