Review: review of the man of her dreams
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 17, 2014
I really liked this short paranormal romance by Mr. Nathan Stratton I just wished it were longer or more of a full-length novel as opposed to a novella.  The story moves quickly and in the dreams of the beautiful lucid dreaming but insomniac heroine Alexis who has fantasies of her high school crush Evan who is not really Evan but the handsome but demon possessed hero Philip.  I could kind of relate to Alexis she seemed a little more real than Philip.  Philip just was uninspiring and just seemed flat as a character relying on seducing women in their sleep so he just seemed a hormonal testerone crazed dream guy which I think would frighten me.  As each night comes Alexis is afraid of her dreams but also can’t wait to see Philip.  Philip has one request that Alexis love him dare she trust and give her heart to a dream man?I think the story moved to quickly for them to immediately get close telling each other they loved each other when they hadn’t really formed any sort of relationship or spent time together and they became intimate with one another quite fast too.  I wanted a bit more of Philip’s background everything about him was so vague well he had been living for seven centuries so Philip came from the time of 14th century I think it never stated what time Philip was from.  He was also trapped in a type of wasteland but I could never figure out what it actually looked like since Alexis always placed it in her familiar surroundings in her dreams well of course I got a glimpse of it as they are running away from the devil of flaming meteorites, smoke and ash but I still felt it lacking in terms of a distinct place.  What job did Alexis really do?  I figured she worked in the corporate field as a type of secretary or something but I never figured that out either.  Plus, each dream sequence they were running from the devil but I never got a true picture of what he actually looked like and could only surmise that since both Alexis and Philip seemed scared of him he must look pretty terrifying.  I do think Ms Stratton did a good job of creating a paranormal story but I just wanted more of the story, character depictions and elements explained it’s hard to imagine much of anything when lots of things are pretty vague.  I still enjoy the way Mr. Stratton writes and will get more of his stories just I don’t know if I will purchase another paranormal story of his.