Susan G. (liliroze) reviewed A disappointment on 2/24/2009 + 29 more book reviews

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Sherrilyn Kenyon "calls this one in" from her typewriter. The story sounds good -- a fantasy about a Dream Hunter who can enter the dreams of others, who falls in love with a mortal. That's where the interest ends. Kenyon confuses the story with a subplot of a search for Atlantis from the Agean Sea, Greek Mythology, and her Dream-Hunter hierarchy of magical beings (there's like 6 different levels of beings . . . and these guys were cursed by Zeus . . . yet Zeus is afraid of them because even gods have to fall asleep sometime . . . ugh).

The story is way too sex-based -- it seems that's all the main character does in her dreams is hook up with this leather-pants-wearing male model wannabe (leather pants! I'm surprised Kenyon doesn't match his ensemble with a Member's Only jacket with his bare chest peeking out for goodness' sake!).

The "heat" between the two main characters is supposed to distract from the fact that the storyline itself is convoluted and silly. Come on -- don't strong, modern women who cross the Agean Sea searching for Atlantis do anything in their dreams but "the nasty"?? Where's the depth to this woman?

The Dream Hunter wants to find her in Real Life as a Mortal, but why? So he can have sex with her in person, of course. In fact, he cares so little for her that he sells her soul to Hades in exchange for two weeks as a mortal (can you say "The Little Mermaid"?).

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