A review by cmcintyre
Only in Your Dreams by Madison Wright

emotional funny hopeful fast-paced

4.75

This is a truly beautiful story. I loved the vulnerability of both characters and the honesty it takes to hear those vulnerabilities to another person. Some may think this book uses the "miscommunication trope", but I strongly disagree. Miscommunication tropes in my mind stem from a place where a character *think* they know what a person is thinking and feeling and then uses those thoughts to make a decision. That is entirely different from being afraid to open up your soft spots to someone for fear of being hurt. 

Finley and Gray have such a fun base friendship from being in each other's lives for so long. Brother's best friend and all that. I haven't read the first book in this series, but I'm sure both characters make appearances and more of their original friendship is shown. The build up is so organic and believable. The struggles they each go through tugged at my heart and I honestly teared up in a few places. I kept preparing myself for spicy scenes, but aside from kissing and being mentionings in the epilogue it was all just sweet, swoony romance. .5🌶️ maximum.

This is my first Madison Wright book and I will absolutely be going back to her backlist and reading those as well. 

Thank you Madison and NetGalley for this ARC. Pub date Sept 27 2024. 🩷