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Product Description
Arik is such a predator. Condemned by the gods to live eternity without emotions, Arik can only feel when he’s in the dreams of others. For thousands of years, he’s drifted through the human unconscious, searching for sensation. Now he’s finally found a dreamer whose vivid mind can fill his emptiness.
Dr. Megeara Kafieri watched her father ruin himself and his reputation as he searched to prove Atlantis was real. Her deathbed promise to him to salvage his reputation has now brought her to Greece where she intends to prove once and for all that the fabled island is right where her father said it was. But frustration and bad luck dog her every step. Especially the day they find a stranger floating in the sea. His is a face she’s seen many times…. in her dreams.
What she doesn’t know is that Arik holds more than the ancient secrets that can help her find the mythical isle of Atlantis. He has made a pact with the god Hades: In exchange for two weeks as a mortal man, he must return to Olympus with a human soul. Megeara’s soul.
With a secret society out to ruin her expedition, and mysterious accidents that keep threatening her life, Megeara refuses to quit. She knows she’s getting closer to Atlantis and as she does, she stumbles onto the truth of what Arik really is.
For Arik his quest is no longer simple. No human can know of a Dream-Hunter’s existence. His dream of being mortal has quickly turned into his own nightmare and the only way to save himself will be to sacrifice the very thing he wanted to be human for. The only question is, will he?
L. J Lewis @ 7:57 pm
Seriously, Sherrilyn Kenyon needs to cut back on the number of novels she writes in a year. It’s still pretty clear that she puts effort in the main novels of the Dark-Hunters series, but these side-story spin-offs are nothing but Kenyon phoning it in to get a paycheck. With only two stories to its name, I can see that the Dream Hunters are going the way of the Were-Hunters in that the series is unabashedly awful.
That brings us to the Dream Hunter. I’ve given Kenyon’s Were-Hunter novels low marks before, but as much as I hated the books, I never took more than three days to read them cover to cover. I bought this on release day and it sat on my night stand for three weeks before I finished it.
I hate to sound like a broken record, but this book is another one of the ones that is trying to build suspense to Acheron’s book. As far as I am concerned, I never care if that much promised book is ever published at this point because it is about two years too late. Sure, at first everyone was in love with that character and wanted to know what his deal was. I don’t think many people still care, because after many books of teasing and still never getting any real answers, Acheron has turned into the Dues Ex Machina plot device from Hell and a character that almost rivals Anita Blake as most annoying reoccurring character in a series.
Dream Hunter features Arikos, an incubus god of sleep, and Dr. Megeara Kiferi, global trotting PHD in search of Atlantis. Arikos is infatuated with Megeara after giving her naughty, naughty dreams at night. He gets high off sucking emotions out of wet dreams, and decides he wants to experience the real thing. He cuts a deal with the god Hades to make him human for two weeks, but forgot to read the fine print at the end of the contract that stipulates he will have to bring Megeara’s soul to Hades in return. Wonderful, a junkie who uses and endangers other people to get his fix is just what every girl should want.
Megeara is an ugly duckling with a PHD. Despite supposedly being smart and focused enough to get a doctorate before she turned thirty, she talks and acts like a dumb valley girl. She’s supposed to be an expert in ancient Greek culture but she seems to be totally ignorant of basic points of their mythology. Oh, and Ms. Kenyon and all the other romance authors, being an academic or smart doesn’t already automatically translate to being unsociable, a loser, unsexy, and frumpy like you guys seem to think. I spent most of the book wanting to give both these characters a giant slice of clue cake.
There is a plot in here somewhere about excavating the Lost City of Atlantis and the gods fearing a possible resurrection of Apollymi the Destroyer who is sealed up in the ruins. Honestly, it kind of gets lost in between introducing about five new characters to the Dark/Were/Dream Hunter world that ultimately don’t serve any purpose.
Kenyon just needs to cut back on books like these. They aren’t any good, and they are making the otherwise fine main series seem stale before its time.
30 Book A Month Reader @ 8:31 pm
Well, this is the last book I’m reading from Sherrilyn Kenyon. When Ms. Kenyon started her dark-hunter series several years back, the books were the best thing going in the world of romantic/fantasy fiction. Each book was new, exciting and the romance between the featured couple was tremendous. As time has gone by, this series has invented more and more different species, all with different powers, reporting to different gods with different powers, featuring different story lines, all of course, with different agendas. What is left is a hodgepodge of 10 million storylines & characters all trying to pull together at some point in each book. The series is now confusing, watered down, and a real disappointment. And the romance? It has taken a back seat. There is just too much going on in each book to spare the word count for serious romance. With this particular book, there were 3 or 4 chapters when the old Kenyon magic shown through, but overall, it didn’t hold my interest, it took me 4 days to get through it (why I bothered I don’t know), and I basically just didn’t care. As this is the pattern I have seen with the last 3 books of Kenyon’s, I think it is safe to say that this series has ran its course and should die a natural death. At today’s publishing prices and the number of books I read a month, I can’t afford books that confuse and/or bore me. This series does both.
Nancy A. Staab @ 9:51 pm
I have really enjoyed Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Dark Hunter series, but Mother of Pearl, what’s with these boring spin-offs? I had to yawn my way through pages of repetitive text making me feel as though I was on a circular read to nowhere. I laid it down, I picked it up, and finally finished it two weeks after purchase (I usually finish one of her books in an afternoon). I found the characters unappealing (Arik, the “Dream-Hunter,” was nothing more than a voyeur) and I fail to understand why SK’s mythological deities always use American slang and colloquialisms. It’s not as bothersome when her novels are set in the States, but in Greece and Atlantis? The Dream Hunter series was aptly named since it is guaranteed to put you to sleep.
Lena @ 10:34 pm
Is it my wild imagination or this book is an extended version of one of Mrs Kenyon’s short stories? (sorry, can’t remember in which anthology I read it but it’s the same plot nevertheless).
Anyway, my main objections lay on another, probably small, subject. The use of the Greek language in general in Mrs. Kenyon’s books. Ok, I understand that for 99,9% of the readers “it’s all Greek to them” but I’m Greek and it’s not just Greek to me. To me it’s my native language and please, PLEASE dear author, don’t use it just to add some “exotic” flavor to the story. Or, since you’re doing it, DO IT RIGHT.
First of all some of the names are so wrong to the point of becoming laughable. Arikos, what kind of Greek name is that? It’s not ancient and it’s not modern. It’s just ridiculous (if you’re Greek at least). And the Greek phrases? Oh God! At one point the author translates the writings on a T-shirt. The English text goes s/thing like this: “I’m watching you, be afraid”. The Greek translations goes: “I see you, I’m scared”. Totally different meaning. HAVE MERCY. Plus childish mistakes in the use of capital letters, misspellings in the greek text in general and so on.
An english-greek dictionary is not all an author needs in order to use a language. How many times we read the phrase “my gios” (my son) in the books? And how many people know that the grammatical term is totally wrong? When you call s/body “my son” in greek it goes like “gie mou” (or “my gie” if we want to follow the authors way of putting it)and any other way of writing it is wrong.
So, Mrs. Kennyon, you want to use the Greek language in your books? Fine by me. But find a Greek to help you do it right. I know that your Greek readers are probably … well … one (me, myself and I) but Greek is still the language some of the greatest works of literature have been written and, if I may say so, commands a little more respect. As any other language would, come to think of it.
P.S.: As I said at the beginning of my review, this book is an extended version of an older short story by Mrs. Kenyon and (yeaaa!) I finally found which one. It’s from the anthology “Midnight Pleasures” and the title of the story is “Phantom Lover” (the story of V’Aidan, a Skotos). I have to admit that there are some small changes (the heroin in the short story starts from nightmares and progresses to erotic dreams) but the whole concept is a repetition nevertheless.
mayfayre @ 12:18 am
Sherrilyn Kenyon’s books are a guilty pleasure for me and they are auto-buys, but I was disappointed by this one. The secondary characters and semi-subplots were much more interesting than the main characters were, and it was readable, so that’s why I gave it three stars. The whole “pantheon” of Kenyon’s characters were present: Dream Hunters, Dark Hunters, gods, goddesses, demi-gods, Atlanteans, etc. The heroine, Geary, wasn’t bad, though her motivations were generic romantic heroine ones (rebelling against the parental unit, deathbed promises, family obligations, ugly-duckling syndrome, etc.). Arik, the hero, just wasn’t that interesting because he was too much of a, excuse the pun, dream lover. There was some good repartee between him and his “brother”, but I thought that he was written as adapting to the mortal world just too easily.
After finishing this book, I realized that the whole point of it was to set up a foretelling of what may happen in future books and of what has already happened in previously published books, specifically involving Zarek the Dark Hunter up in Alaska, and the current conflict involving Nick Gautier. It merely in-fills bits and pieces that weren’t missed by the readers to begin with. My problem with the book was that I felt that the secondary characters in the book would have been better used as the primary characters, and the main love interest relegated to the subplot. I think that would have worked better.
I’m not going to say don’t buy it, because it’s not a bad book. But if you’re a Kenyon reader, just know that this one isn’t on par with her better ones. My rating was based on the fact that I am a Kenyon reader and I know that she can do better than this.