L. A. K. (owingsreader) reviewed on 10/5/2009 + 6 more book reviews

This book contains wall-to-wall sex scenes but I can't say much more for it than that. It wasn't horrible, it was just...meh. There is some sort of plot involving Dream Warriors fighting Nightmares inside the minds of sleeping women; the chosen method of "warfare" is sexual arousal --and gee, there's an actual army of uniformed guys whose job is to creep into womens' dreams and fight Nightmares by manipulating the woman's sexuality (to which I say, eeuuwww). Anyway, in the case of the main characters, Lyssa and Aidan, their fantasy sex is so great that it somehow turns into real sex, sex that is so galactically awesome they... uh...I dunno, I lost interest after the thirtieth orgasm. The outcome (no pun intended) is so foregone that it sucks all the tension and suspense from the story and what's left is a sex/love story as predictable as a Hallmark "Special Event" movie. The writing itself is strong for this type of genre work. Sylvia Day writes vivid sentences and creates some interesting imagery. Her erotic sequences are varied and well described with lots of gasping and ecstasy and floods of passion and stuff like that. The main problem I had is that I just wasn't invested in the characters. Nothing seemed to be at risk for them except their ability to boink one another at will. There is a fair-amount of graphic-to-obscene language in the text so take heed if you object to four-letter words. Overall, an okay read but I wouldn't read it again.

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