See You in My Dreams
Marie-Nicole RyanRomantic suspense
Available from Wings ePress
ISBN: 1-59088-040-4
August 2003
| Homeless, sixteen year old Nikki meets Max when he saves her from a beating by a pimp that doesn't want to take 'no' for an answer. He's obviously rich and, at first, she is distrustful of his motives. But he sees something in her face that he believes would make his modeling agency prosper. So he asks her to meet him for dinner the next night to discuss a possible job. He wants her to live with his mother so his mother can help transform her into a model. He is attracted to Nikki and cares for her but will not act on his feelings. The fact that she also looks like his dead wife concerns him, though he believes he cares for Nikki for herself. Once Nikki moves in with Maxim's mother, Renee, she begins having dreams of herself and Max in Louis XVI's court. There, Max was a penniless royal guard and Nikki was living off the generosity of her aunt. Marrying would be, at the very least, a bad idea.
See You in My Dreams reminded me a lot of Judith McNaught's first contemporary romances. It had a very mainstream style and showed a large amount of history of one of the main characters, Nikki. There was conflict within the romance, and within the story itself. I didn't understand why Max left his daughter to be raised by his mother. He visited often, but it was still very strange, almost as if he didn't care that he was missing part of his daughter's life. But at the same time, I could see how he might not understand how to raise her or be too afraid to try. I really would've liked Nikki to have ignored her awful mother, rather than continuing to support her for 10 years; I didn't understand how anyone could deal with a woman like that. The dreams Max and Nikki had, of what seemed to be previous lives, were very tragic and sad. The romance had so much conflict and drama that it was hard not to cheer Max and Nikki on. See You in My Dreams was very engrossing and it was extremely difficult to stop reading, even to do something important. It's not a book I could read more than once a month, but it's definitely more than a one-time read.
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Reviewer: Tara Black |
