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Dreamfever by Karen Marie Moning

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12rdeal's review against another edition

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dark emotional funny fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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chikidude's review against another edition

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I am honestly just not invested in this world. The use of rape to make the main character “better-suited” to the state of the world/the activation of her talents, is really not for me.

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imaginary_space's review

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dark mysterious slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? N/A
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

1.0

Okay, so...

Mac has been raped by the evil fae, which now makes her a fae sex addict, and Barrons is taking one (several) for the team and fucks her back to sanity, several times a day, over several months. So, raping her. For her own good.

And that is a choice the author made.
And of course through her

magic rape

she unlocks new special magical girl abilities.
Also she now gets wet every time Barrons is near.
Barrons repeatedly reminds her of both things and continues to be lewd, but he's hot, so that's okay and she stays with him, for ... whatever reason. I mean, it's not like she didn't have other options.

Also, this is the fourth book and Barrons still tells Mac nothing about his plans, the context of all the stuff that's happening, what she is, what he is, his goals when they go out and to something, but he expects her to do exactly as he tells her all of the time - oh, and also be grateful.
But he's hot, so that's okay I guess.
At this point, he's even more of an annoying brat than she is. And that's saying something.

At some point, she's actually starting to make coherent plans and do things, and it actually started to work. That peaked my interest and I thought, maybe this is where it gets better. Maybe we had to wade through the absolut shithole that is her

magical rape

to come out the other side, for whatever reason the author can think of to explain that decision.
But sadly, it doesn't last long and we are thrown right into an annoyingly lengthy chain of random encounters only to end on a cliffhanger that makes Mac not only wallow in her self pity even more, but which she sees as the most devastating thing that's ever happend to her and - girl, did you not read the first chapters of this installment of your own story!?

Her inner monologue continues to annoy the everlasting fuck out of me. She still explains every possible meaning of every event, preferably by asking herself endless questions, because apparently we as readers are too dumb to come to any conlusions oureselves.

I am now 4 books in and despite what I was promised, I have given up hope that this series will get better (which means I am open to be pleasantly surprised), but I have also wasted so much of my time and suffered so much that I cannot simply stop and admit to myself that this time was really, truly, wasted.
Just like Mac, I am drawing the dumbest possible conclusion here and refuse to think critically or accept any sensible advice.

I mean, by this point the author herself feels the need to add an author's note in which she promises things will get better. Not sure what she thinks this says about her book, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't say what she thinks it does.

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