Review of Mystery Man (Dream Man #1) by Kristen Ashley
Mystery Man is the first book in the series Dream Man.
Gwendolyn Kidd spends her days dreaming about the man who sneaks into her bed at night. She took him home from a bar for sex, no names exchanged, then he kept coming back. For a year and a half, she would wake in the dark to Mystery Man's hand on her back. She never let him in, never gave him a key, but he'd be there at least once a week.
Cabe "Hawk" Delgado knows everything about Gwen, far more than she realizes. He keeps her at a distance because, while Gwen is skittish about relationships, Hawk has his own demons. But when Gwen is dragged into the Denver Underground, Hawk enters her life in the daylight, determined to keep her safe.
I loved this book. The plot just kept coming and kept coming, both from the bad guys and from her relationship with Hawk. It was the most intense Kristen Ashley book I've read, and I made it through her Colorado Mountain series recently. It was also hilarious.
Gwen was naïve and had some major flaws. She didn't think a lot at times and just reacted. Sometimes I wanted to smack her in the forehead, but she was fun to read about.
Hawk was a badass alpha in a sea of badass alphas. All Kristen Ashley's heroes are badass alphas, though. He was sweet in his own way and attentive most of the time. His reasons for coming into Gwen's daytime life were extreme, and I wanted to shake him for not doing it sooner. The way he introduced himself to her and people around her had me a little baffled along with her. The way he inserted himself, and we found out had been inserted for a while, had me even more baffled. Like, is he serious about this? Where did he get that information? How did he know that? And there were a lot more. I liked him a lot as a character and a leading man.
My only critique of Gwen and Hawk are the striking similarities with Lauren and Tate of Sweet Dreams, the second book in the Colorado Mountain series, that came out a few months after this book. I looked it up because I was surprised by how similar they were.
Descriptions with Kristen Ashley are always great. Every time I pick up one of her books, I know what I'm looking at and what's happening. She keeps surprises surprising and twists twisting without ruining any of it.
Dialog was also great. Funny and expressive while keeping cheese somewhat minimal. Characters, at least the major ones, had a unique way of speaking that distinguished them from the others, though there were certain phrases that everyone used.
I loved all the twists, turns, and surprises in the story that just kept on coming without much pause. It kept me glued to my e-reader, and I read the book in two days. I can't wait for the next book.
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