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Title: The Dream-Hunter (A Dream-Hunter Novel, Book 1)
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Manufacturer: St. Martin's Paperbacks
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| The Dream-Hunter (A Dream-Hunter Novel, Book 1) by St. Martin's Paperbacks Take a pass... | | I never thought I'd give a bad review on one of Ms. Kenyons books but OML what a sleeper this one was. I can't even classify this one as a good beach book, unless of course you want to nod off in your chair! I read the other Dream Hunter book and was mildly entertained but this one was terrible! It took me over a week and a half to read this as opposed to a day or two with the other books. Reading these Dream Hunter series books on their own is confusing to the Dark Hunter series because if you've read the books in order, some of the characters are actually dead by the time I got around to reading these books. The only reason I started it was that Xypher was in Devil May Cry and I wanted to know what happened to him, I'm so sorry I picked this one up though. Think I'll stick with the Dark Hunters instead. Don't bother with this one, not matter how much of a chance you give it, it'll still die a painful death... | | The Dream-Hunter (A Dream-Hunter Novel, Book 1) by St. Martin's Paperbacks Tedious | I'm catching up belatedly with some Kenyon books I never reviewed. As many others have said, Kenyon really does appear to be extending the series too far and producing characters and scenarios which are... well, not to pull any punches, boring.
Her male characters are entirely predictable by now, and equally predictable is the way that - despite millennia of angst, pain and anger - they fall in love in days, if not hours. Suddenly, someone who is introduced as evil through and through - of course they are, if they're being punished, as Arik is - turns out to be misunderstood and really good underneath.
Arik is, basically, a stalker. He enters Geary's dreams and has sex with her. You know, a lot of people would call that rape. Geary comes close but then, predictably, forgives him. Geary herself, though, seems to need psychiatric help. She's obsessed - with finding Atlantis, with distancing herself from her family, with whatever the next thing that crosses her vision happens to be. And, sorry, but if she's really a marine archaeologist then I pity the profession.
The most interesting parts about this book were the additional knowledge of Apollymi the Destroyer - who, so far, seems to be a nicer character than Artemis and many others within Kenyon's universe - and Zebulon, who interested me far more than Arik.
Not worth your money. | | The Dream-Hunter (A Dream-Hunter Novel, Book 1) by St. Martin's Paperbacks Really really bad | This book was so bad it was cringeworthy. I've brought all of her books even though the last few have been just bad. No more, this book was just too bad. A thick female and a hero I couldn't bring myself to care about.
| | The Dream-Hunter (A Dream-Hunter Novel, Book 1) by St. Martin's Paperbacks Better ignore this one and move on to later books... | Ms Kenyon is one of my favourite authors and I really enjoy her Dark-Hunter series (although consciously trying to forget the complete distortion of Greek mythology for the sake of entertainment). Unfortunately, her Dream-Hunter series is below her usual standard, with the possible exception of "Dream Chaser". Fortunately, you don't really need to have read any of the first Dream-hunter stories in order to understand "Dream Chaser". I suppose she found herself at a period of her author life where books are written in a rather mechanistic, automatic way. The recipe is the same as her other books, but feeling is lacking and the reader can't really sympathise with the characters. In addition, there is a higher than normal instance of poor Greek, with most characteristic example the message on Zebulon's T-shirt. It's supposed to read "I'm watching you, be afraid", but the quoted Greek phrase means "I'm watching you, I AM afraid". It could be very funny, except it's actually annoying... I suppose it's evidence of poor editing. I don't know who has responsibility for double-checking the Greek phrases and words used in Ms Kenyon's books, but they are not doing a very good job. By the way, Zebulon must be a Russian name, because for one it's not Greek, and secondly it's the name of a character in Sergei Lukyanenko's "Day Watch". I also feel very sorry for the heroine, who bears a name that means (literally) "shrew" or "she-devil" in Greek. I understand the author chose it in purpose, but honestly, no matter how evil a Greek parent may be, they would never choose such a name for their child...
Overall, this is poor quality. I may sound severe in my critique, but Ms Kenyon has accustomed readers to much better stories. It's good to see that her more recent instalments show evidences of her good, old self.
| | The Dream-Hunter (A Dream-Hunter Novel, Book 1) by St. Martin's Paperbacks Kenyon Shines | I so adore the ever-expanding Dark-Hunter world!
The Dream-Hunter features a god, cursed to only experience feeling through other people's dreams. When he meets Megeara Kafieri, he needs more than her dreams. Literally striking a bargain with the devil, Hades, he becomes human. Only when he has feelings of his own, does he discover what a horrible deal he made.
Geary and Arik's story was a gripping tale that kept me flipping the pages! | | The Dream-Hunter (A Dream-Hunter Novel, Book 1) by St. Martin's Paperbacks Product Description | In the ethereal world of dreams, there are champions who fight to protect the dreamer and there are demons who prey on them...
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? |
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