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Wildest Dreams
by Kristen Ashley
This series was recommended as a great fantasy romance. The blurb sounded okay, but 'Oh boy.'
I managed to finish the book, but it really wasn't for me.
The premise was fine: people from our world have doppelgangers in another world, so an adventurous girl decides to switch for a year, mostly to bond with new parents (her parents in this world died when she was young). However, as is explained very clearly by the witch making the transfer, just because someone looks the same, they don't act the same at all. So, Finnie, our heroine, arrives to find she's a princess (yay!) and on her way to her wedding with super-alpha hot guy Frey Drakken who can command elves and dragons. We don't actually get to see much of the elves or the dragons. Instead, we get lots of hot sex between the couple after some of the initial misunderstandings are smoothed out.
I didn't care for the way Frey manhandles Finnie physically or treats her, especially at the beginning of the book. I really didn't care for the writing style - Finnie sounds like a junior high valley girl and it grates on the reader's nerves (at least mine) very quickly. The 'Oh boy' thing was really not 'cool' or as 'awe-some' as the author thinks. The world-building was okay, nothing special. The other characters were generic: Finnie's 'girls' and Frey's alpha guys were laughably interchangeable and I couldn't tell you their names. A lot of the book is just filler stuff when not sexual. Finnie cleans the cabin, Finnie learns to cheat at cards, etc. The ending, when something finally happens, feels rushed.
I did finish it, but I won't go on to read any more by this author.
I managed to finish the book, but it really wasn't for me.
The premise was fine: people from our world have doppelgangers in another world, so an adventurous girl decides to switch for a year, mostly to bond with new parents (her parents in this world died when she was young). However, as is explained very clearly by the witch making the transfer, just because someone looks the same, they don't act the same at all. So, Finnie, our heroine, arrives to find she's a princess (yay!) and on her way to her wedding with super-alpha hot guy Frey Drakken who can command elves and dragons. We don't actually get to see much of the elves or the dragons. Instead, we get lots of hot sex between the couple after some of the initial misunderstandings are smoothed out.
I didn't care for the way Frey manhandles Finnie physically or treats her, especially at the beginning of the book. I really didn't care for the writing style - Finnie sounds like a junior high valley girl and it grates on the reader's nerves (at least mine) very quickly. The 'Oh boy' thing was really not 'cool' or as 'awe-some' as the author thinks. The world-building was okay, nothing special. The other characters were generic: Finnie's 'girls' and Frey's alpha guys were laughably interchangeable and I couldn't tell you their names. A lot of the book is just filler stuff when not sexual. Finnie cleans the cabin, Finnie learns to cheat at cards, etc. The ending, when something finally happens, feels rushed.
I did finish it, but I won't go on to read any more by this author.