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Sweet Nightmare

Tracy Wolff

3.56 AVERAGE

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted tense fast-paced
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nikki_reads_'s review

2.0

The idea of this book sounded so amazing, but I found myself underwhelmed the whole time. Zero world building had me feeling a little lost. Most of the book was the FMC’s thoughts with not enough plot or action happening for me personally. There were some interesting plot points I would’ve loved to have explored more, but they were just brought up and never dwelled on again. Idk maybe I’m just not a huge fan of this author’s writing style. The trigger warnings had me thinking it would be darker, more exciting, but yeah, again just underwhelmed is how I ended up
adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

I was entertained. I guess there's that, but this was not good and I will not be waiting for the next. I pushed through because I hate myself apparently? But there were so many issues with character development and there was so much extra flowery language describing absolutely nothing. 
adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

sardonisms's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 10%

I was expecting this to me mediocre and entertaining. It is mediocre, but it's not entertaining. It's just dull. Another YA book where we're supposed to hate the mom so we like the kid, another YA romance where the characters have less chemistry than an elementary school science fair. It was just boring. I can enjoy bad, but I can't enjoy boring. I returned it to the library and don't remember how far I was so the 50 pages is approximate.
adventurous emotional funny slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

I found this book exciting becuz I read all her former Crave books; however, I knew in my heart this book she was going to raise the bar. Boy did she!!  It had all the paranormal introduced starting with the beginning of the chapters. Including sirens, mermaids, witches, faes, vamps, werewolves, dream Gods, “prince of nightmares “ , ghosts, manticores, monsters, Gods of time, and so on and so much more even snakes my worst nightmare. It’s amazing how much creativity and adventure you go on this wild but dark journey. It’s taking me a few days to write this review becuz it had me so intense when I finished it in less than two days that I felt fear, sad that it ended cuz I wanted more yet afraid for another book two. The ending left me kind of cliffhanger-ly! This is not me, i have read so many paranormal books, I enjoy paranormal books but this one took me through the mill 😮🤣😜. Tracy, really placed the reader in the wild ride that you couldn’t get out !!  You had to finish it to escape this dark world!! Will I read book two absolutely but I will need to get my guard up for sure … 

Reco: If you start with reading the Crave series you will appreciate Sweet Nighmares even more as a few characters continue in this new academy. However, this book can stand alone. 

Final thoughts: Sweet Nightmares was 100% edge-of-your-seat addictive!!!  
adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

alisieb's review

5.0

Whoa. YA, can you keep up? I'll be thinking about nightmares for a while. Sweet Nightmare is fast-paced and full of action, all YA appropriate. I'll be adding book 2 to my tbr.