A review by theglassedandthefurios
Wildest Dreams by Kristen Ashley

4.0

This book was on my recommendation list from Goodreads so I kind of just trusted them and went ahead and read it without really knowing what was awaiting me. Boy this book did NOT disappoint. It was amazing. I loved the characters. There was a nice fantasy world, funny characters you came to care about and a good amount of action and intrigue. So it pretty much had everything. I couldn't put this book down. I had so many chores I wanted to do this Saturday and I just ended up reading this book all afternoon. It was brilliant. Some minor things that I didn't love: the name Finnie. To me this is the name you give to a pony, not a young woman. I couldn't really warm up to it and it felt to childish. That bugged me a bit. Also after a while I had enough of her "Ho Boy" and sometimes her behavior was just too childish. Loudly exclaiming "that's so cool" when learning elves exist didn't really fit in with the picture of this young woman seeking adventure. I did love Frey's expression though and his notice that Finnie's feet itch was brilliant. I loved that.

Story wise the reason I didn't give this 5 stars was because in general I thought the author made it too easy for her characters.

Spoiler

I mean at the beginning Frey obviously hates Finnie and cannot stand to be next to her - because he thinks she is a lesbian. The moment she says she's not his entire demeanor changes and he's oh so on board with the whole marriage arrangement. That was just too easy... Then every time there was a serious conflict, it was also solved either too easily or too safely. If Finnie is being attacked Frey and his men almost flee until their in save waters again (literally) and they all go back to easy-peasy relaxed states. And when Frey makes life altering decisions that threaten their relationship, there is no real confrontation because they're being attacked so they're a little distracted and in the end it's all good. Finally, I'm not saying I wanted Frey to die, not at all!!! But again, I felt like the author played it a bit to save with his heroic saving and appearance with dragons...

I still loved the book. This is one of those lucky finds I'm extremely grateful for and I know that I'll devour the second book today too.