Review: Who Longs for The Dryad's Kiss?
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 17, 2012
This was a really fascinating and well written book.  I was a little confused when the Irish sounding title of the book started with Native American lore but the appearance of Ian Finn Morgenstern helped to meld the Irish dryad legends and the Native American lore. Finn is your basic 18 year old high school senior. He has a posse of friends who he likes a lot but he gets bullied a bit because he is a little geeky. Finn is a good son who enjoys spending time with his Dad and his "uncle" - his Dad's best friend looking for Native American artifacts in fields and sites. The guys find a farmer excavating a Native American burial mound that he claims is haunted. When Finn finds an intact flute on the site, his uncle buys the rights to excavate the mound and keep everything he finds. Finn keeps the flute and hopes to find more artifacts. Things start to get a little weird for Finn once he finds the flute; his dreams are haunted by a luscious sexy green gal, a dryad. This tree sprite is no benign woodland spirit and she begins to beguile Finn through increasingly sexual dreams. As the dreams increase, Finn's life starts to fall apart, physically and emotionally. The lines between reality and fantasy blur catching Finn in the middle. Most 18 year old guys would definitely choose the sexual allure of the dryad but is Finn average? Can he find his way back or will the dryad's kiss cost him, his family, his friends or his life?