Wildest Dreams

I pointed my eyes straight ahead too and muttered, “I'm sure I'll find something I can do.” I felt Frey's eyes on me, kept mine aimed at the hall then I heard Frey sigh. “Indeed, you will and this terrifies me,” he muttered back and that was when I allowed myself to giggle.

I just read in one of the reviews that this book is a mixture between The Chronicles of Narnia and A Game of Thrones with a sprinkle of fairytale romance. Well, I don't know about that. The world-building was quite quaint, but the writing, overall, not as ... let's say skillful. The protagonist and her “worldly” language: “fine-ass”, “cool”, “eeek”, “ho boy”, etc were very irritating distracting. She's supposedly a late 20s/30-something woman, however she sounded/behaved like a teenager.

I was also taken by surprise by explicitness of the book. Obviously, I was expecting romance to be a big part the story, however I didn't think there would be that much romance, if you know what I mean. I believed it was going to be something similar to Cruel Beauty, which I really loved. I should have done a more thorough research before picking it up. I'd just read the synopsis and I thought “Well, this sounds kind of fun”.

And it was, at times. The atmosphere is very fairytale-like (I have a soft spot for fairytales) and some situations were quite amusing, still, the protagonist isn't exactly the brightest peach on the block and I'm not a fan of the “Jane meets Tarzan” kind of relationship, even if Tazan rules over a kingdom of ice and he can order around dragons.