[Review] Dream So Dark, by: Quinn Loftis

Dream Maker #2

DREAM SO DARK

by: Quinn Loftis
Publication Date: November 7th, 2017
Read Date: July 15th, 2018
Genre: Fantasy, Mythology, New Adult
Format: eBook
Pages: 272

 

He was created to be a messenger and guider of dreams. He has traveled the earth for centuries upon centuries fulfilling his purpose. Until her. Serenity crept into his existence as seamlessly as the dreams he wove and just as effortlessly, she stole his heart. Their future is still unclear, but Dair knows he doesn't want to spend even another hour without her.

Meanwhile, Emma Whitmore, a brilliant young girl whose overcome so much at her tender young age was dropped in both their laps, but for what purpose neither is certain. Taken from the people she's grown to love and put in a home with a man who has no love to give, she fights to survive. She just has to hang on until she can be returned to the adoptive family who has already claimed her.

Three lives, unsure of what is to come, fighting the darkness that is closing in all around them. If they are to have any future together, then evil cannot prevail. But at what cost to them?

**Warning: Dream So Dark is book 2 in this series and darker than book 1. Child trafficking is mentioned though not graphic. No explicit explanations but themes of sexual violence and healing after are explored. Thank you for considering my book for your next read.**

my rate

I’m tired. I’m sorry, but I am tired of getting my hopes up and then BAM! my suffering is not done it will continue in the next book. I thought I was missing how this author writes, and I kind of did, but I am so annoyed of things never ending and a whole other problem coming and not giving my end.

All that has happened before, but it happened again in this book. I barely remember what happened in the first book, but after a few pages in this one, I caught up. When I keep reading pages and pages, and the problem was not resolving itself I knew it was not going to happen. My happy ending was not going to come up in this book, and that made me disappointed.

Quinn Loftis is a great, great author. I love how she makes these worlds out of thin air, how good these romances are built, how deep her characters are, BUT I disdain that I have to wait so much for a happy end. I don’t like that there isn’t an end. I gave up in one of her series because problems kept coming up and the true happy ending was not near. I would hate to not read more of this author because I love her words, mostly her kickass females, but I cannot torture myself like this.

Now, this book was precious (other than annoying that I already said it was). I felt how deep the character of Dair went for his mate, Serenity. I loved how strong the character of Emma Jean was. I’m not a person that can be called religious, but I understood a bunch of references from the Bible (because I have read a bunch of it), and I loved how she created everything out of there and then some. Again, I dislike how everything came out to be, but let’s see what will be next.

For the future, this is the plan. I will constantly be aware of what this author is coming out with, but I will not read any other book of her until I’m certain that the series is done. It is too much to be hyped for something that doesn’t have an end.

last review

[Series Review] The Nocte Trilogy, by: Courtney Cole

THE NOCTE TRILOGY

by: Courtney Cole

  

NOCTE, VERUM & LUX

Genre: Mystery, Dark, Romance, New Adult

Format: Kindle Edition

Total of Pages: 916

 

my overall rate

I am mindblown. I have no other description of what I felt after reading these books, so I’ll stick it to mindblown. If you want to feel like I am, read these books if not, you are better off. Believe me. I seriously think I shouldn’t have read these, but I did and I cannot turn back the clock.

The blurbs of these books are very vague, so if you start the book you are thrown into an unknown story. The story keeps saying “go back to the beginning”, but I seriously do not know where is that. What can I actually tell you? The main character is Calla Elizabeth Price. And something is wrong, she knows it, we know it, but we (as in us and her) don’t know what IT IS. Reality is overrated and history always repeat itself.

I had a hard time trying to follow the actual story. The end is inconclusive because it does not end, it just goes back to the beginning. I have to admit that everything was beautifully written, but it is not my cup of tea (pun intended). I was way better off without reading this book. Now my mind is a little screwed up. I need to forget these as soon as possible.

If you don’t like my rambling of these books I suggest, you don’t read them either. What is up, is actually down, and what is down, is actually right… and so on. Nothing makes sense and the end of the story is up to you, which is a nightmare, for me, to end a story like that. Whatever, the thing is that I rated it as low as I did because I did not like everything came up to be. Otherwise, the books would be five stars because everything was very well thought. Up to you, really, if you wanna read them.

 

[Series Review] Misadventures, by: Various Authors

MISADVENTURES...

   

**MISADVENTURES ARE STANDALONE ROMANCES THAT CAN BE READ IN ANY ORDER**

  

... OF A VIRGIN

by: Meredith Wild

Publication Date: December 3rd, 2017

Pages: 188

 

my rate:

Must admit that this book made me fall in love with the author’s writing, which I think I have never read something of her. I loved the whole story. You know the story that we tell little kids of the cousins that one lives in the city and the other in the country? This book made me think of that story. But this ending I loved more.

Once upon a time boy and girl meet, fall in love, share a kiss, but everything fall apart. Boy and girl made their own lives separately until boy comes back to town. Flames spark again, but everything still as complicated as it was before, so how is this going to end? Happy, that’s how it ended. Of course, the story is more than the few words I just said. Both families are full of secrets, but these two will rise above and share the love that has always been there between them.

The story is steamy, romantic and it gave me a little of heartache. Of course is not that long, so I wanted a little more in the epilogue. But overall everything was told as perfect as a book should be.

... OF A CITY GIRL

by: Meredith Wild & Chelle Bliss
Publication Date: September 12th, 2017
Pages: 187

 

my rate:

This is a book that I enjoyed quite a lot. What is not to love about a country sexy man and a city girl that loves what she sees? I loved the whole idea. You know it is kind of creepy that while you are skinny dipping someone is watching you, but the author made it look sexy, because the guy was hot. I approve.

Also, the whole thing of finding a happy medium was cute. I loved it because the happy medium was seriously perfect. I was overjoyed at the end, for sure. This series is becoming better than I expected.

... OF THE FIRST DAUGHTER

by: Meredith Wild & Mia Michelle
Publication Date: October 30th, 2017
Pages: 280

 

my rate:

Okay, well, this book was hard. I thought the end was not going to come, not because it was too long, but because I couldn’t see a solution. At the end, everything came up to be better than expected. I have to admit that the book was hot, so was the guy. Really books are making my expectations about reality very high and that is sad. Good story, loved the action. I wished it had a better ending, something more romantic or whatever, but is okay.

... OF A BACKUP BRIDE

by: Shayla Black

Publication Date: October 17th, 2017

Pages: 280

 

my rate:

This book was meh. It was kind of cliché except for the end, so that’s the only thing I loved about it. I really don’t have much to say. I dislike the guy and I wasn’t a fan of the girl. So it was still a good read to pass the time, but nothing out of this world.

... ON THE NIGHT SHIFT

by: Lauren Rowe

Publication Date: November 7th, 2017

Pages: 280

 

my rate:

Now, I had a blast in this book. I laughed so much. I got upset. I got mad. I loved the book. Lukas was an asshole, but a good one. I loved what it was inside his heart, so the end was totally expected. Abi was a badass assassin (as he calls her) and I love every single word of their banters. They could go on and on, and I would still love it. The sexy scenes were perfection, but the end was just superb. For now, in the series, this has the winning chance.

... OF A GOOD WIFE

by: Meredith Wild & Helen Hardt

Publication Date: October 3rd, 2017

Pages: 200

 

my rate:

I tremendously dislike this book. There was a couple of good things, but overall it was totally meh. I couldn’t read it fast enough for it to end and it made me seriously think if I should continue this series. But just because all the books are different stories and different authors I might continue. I have taken a pause, so I don’t know when I will keep going.

I dislike the whole “I had to do it to protect you” kind of thing. I’m sure I loved the guy, but not his personality and stuff. Some scenes were good and hot, but most of them were meh. So yeah, not something I would read again or recommend.

Overall, as I said, the series has its ups and downs, but I had to stop because other books were calling my attention more than these ones. I dunno when I’m going to get back at this, but I certainly will, some other time.