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chocoholicreader 's review for:
Wildest Dreams
by Kristen Ashley
Rating- Good but could’ve been better
Heat- 3 several scenes
Tropes- arrainged marriage, mistaken identity
When it comes to originality, this book is off the charts. The idea is that there is a parallel universe to ours in which everyone has a twin, but this other world is more medieval and includes magic and magical creatures. The only downside to this book...
The way Finnie talked!
Finnie talks like an illiterate teenager. Everything is “cool.” There was one page that had the word cool on it 5 different times. Every now and then she would mix it up with a “freaking cool.” To make it even worse, her internal vocabulary was the same, and we are constantly treated to her inner thoughts as one or two word phrases.
“Eek!”
“Holy Moly!”
“Hmmm”
Add to that those one word thoughts were frequently repeated out loud, so we had to be told that she thought it and then said it.
Elves!
Oh, my god! How cool!
This world had elves!
I looked back at Frey and whispered, “How cool!
IF you can get past this aspect, the story itself is wonderful. Frey is your typical Ashley hero. He is occasionally a overbearing jerk, but he also only knows a world where women don’t have the freedoms that we do now. For the most part, his care of Finnie is heartwarming. Finnie is basically TSTL since she can’t seem to realize that speaking like a valley girl is going to give away that she isn’t her twin, but she is upbeat and fun. The world building is very complete, and the entire plot is fresh and unique. A good editing would make this a 5 star read.
Heat- 3 several scenes
Tropes- arrainged marriage, mistaken identity
When it comes to originality, this book is off the charts. The idea is that there is a parallel universe to ours in which everyone has a twin, but this other world is more medieval and includes magic and magical creatures. The only downside to this book...
The way Finnie talked!
Finnie talks like an illiterate teenager. Everything is “cool.” There was one page that had the word cool on it 5 different times. Every now and then she would mix it up with a “freaking cool.” To make it even worse, her internal vocabulary was the same, and we are constantly treated to her inner thoughts as one or two word phrases.
“Eek!”
“Holy Moly!”
“Hmmm”
Add to that those one word thoughts were frequently repeated out loud, so we had to be told that she thought it and then said it.
Elves!
Oh, my god! How cool!
This world had elves!
I looked back at Frey and whispered, “How cool!
IF you can get past this aspect, the story itself is wonderful. Frey is your typical Ashley hero. He is occasionally a overbearing jerk, but he also only knows a world where women don’t have the freedoms that we do now. For the most part, his care of Finnie is heartwarming. Finnie is basically TSTL since she can’t seem to realize that speaking like a valley girl is going to give away that she isn’t her twin, but she is upbeat and fun. The world building is very complete, and the entire plot is fresh and unique. A good editing would make this a 5 star read.