A review by fariha_mou
Wildest Dreams by Kristen Ashley

3.0

3.5 stars.

I read Dracula when I was a kid maybe 13/14 years ago. It was paranormal as well as horror and I chickened out. Don’t be so judgmental, I was a kid. 😜 So, I said good-bye to horror and maybe other paranormal also got in that way. Glad to know that I am back.

I enjoyed it. While I was reading the book, I often remember the TV series and movies I watched. There were so many things like dragons, elves, Vikings, sleighs, magical trees, and witches…. This series is based on fantasy. To experience adventures A Girl travels to another world and find herself in the wildest dreams.

I liked Finnie (Seofin). She was a bit childish but also strong. She was a delightful character to read. On the opposite, Frey is a picture of an Alpha male.

I liked the chemistry between Frey and Finnie’s. She is from this world and he is from fantasy land. Obviously, there were lots of differences and conflicts but still, at the end, it worked out just fine.

Spoiler
I saw lots of the people questioning Frey’s decision about birth control and binding Finnie in his world. He did this without Finnie’s consent. Yeah, that’s wrong. He is an asshole and a domineering brute I get that, but people often forgot about Finnie doing. She came to this world and went with the flow like she is Sjofin (Finnie’s twin sister in fantasy land) and is this good? She married Frey and she was planning to leave after one year and switch her place with true Sjofin. Again, is this good?

I admire the fact that Finnie had tried to talk with Frey about the child before having sex, but I remember at the end of their conversation Frey neither agreed nor disagreed with it. Later Finnie started to take the birth control. Maybe she didn’t hide it from Frey but she also didn’t inform about it. Well, some of the people will be saying that it was entirely a woman's decision to decide whether or when she will have a baby. But I disagree. The decision doesn’t fall entirely on one partner. It doesn’t matter who the partner is, male or female? Both of the partner's consent is equally important. Finnie, my girl, why didn’t you inform about it? Well, you made a bad call, Finnie. And Frey you did the worst and I am not going to forgive you for it.

Another thing, when they were arguing about Viola, Frey behaves very badly and he wasn’t sorry about it. Instead, Finnie was the one who said sorry. What the hell?....
Other then that everything was ok.

Overall, It was good. I loved the whole idea of the parallel universe and identical twins. Obviously, neither Finnie nor Frey was perfect but Frey was gentle with Finnie and tries to fulfill her wishes of adventure throughout the book. Finnie also tries to understand the life of another world. The secondary characters of the book were very enjoyable...... Aurora, Atticus, The girls, Frey’s man, Skylar… even I liked Penelope also.

Overall, I didn’t love it but I liked it enough to continue the Fantasyland series and Paranormal Genre.