L.B. Black

The Dreaming Forest

Whitney Nicole

I almost DNF’d this but I had such high hopes I kept going.

What can I say…who doesn’t love a good fated mates trope? And the entire concept of Lydia’s powers, omnilinguism, was really interesting. Her powers extended past human language and I will end that part there to avoid spoilers.

However, I was disappointed with the plot as a whole. As I said, I love fated mates but the personality of the characters here were not developed well at all. I wasn’t rooting for the mc’s because I barely knew them. The love interest, Quinn…all we really know about him is that he’s a surgeon, he’s the rightful king of the Fey and he doesn’t want the throne. I could not tell you anything about his personality whatsoever, he is quite literally an unfinished canvas. We do learn a little more about the our heroine, Lydia, but not much. For example, she has this huge fear of the ocean but we never really learn why. Her time outside of the Changeling compound is referenced, but never really explored. And her “love story” with Quinn is so nonsensical I could not believe it.

I mean that literally; as in, I could not believe she had fallen in love with him. It was the worst case of insta-love I have ever read in my life. The time jumps at the end of the book were messy - all of a sudden Lydia can teleport and we never figure out how??? Just the entire ending as a whole made no sense and I found myself sitting there, flipping back and forth trying to see if I had missed something. I did not, in fact, miss something. There truly was just no explanation. I was very detached from these characters, and the plot, due to the poor development. 

The two stars are for the almost interesting world building and the sassy talking sidekick raven. All in all, you can probably go ahead and just DNF this one.

The Dreaming Forest

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