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Sweet Dreams
Multicultural Futuristic
Alisha has loved Clayton since they were kids. With his dark hair and pale gold eyes that look right through her, he captured her heart long ago. There's only one problem—Clay is her cousin by marriage.
Clay has been trying not to notice what a sexy, desirable woman his little cousin has turned into for years. Family ties are important to him and he's not about to alienate the people who love him and took him in when he was younger.
Alisha has tried everything to break down Clay's barriers and is about to give up when a golden opportunity arises. Testing for the sweetdreams drug is underway and Alisha volunteers to take the REM sleep enhancer that causes subjects to act out their dreams.
Now with a valid excuse to show her older cousin how she feels without consequences, Alisha will act out her most erotic fantasies in a final effort to get Clay between the sheets and into her love life forever. But how will Clay feel when he finds out he's been tricked into the forbidden relationship? And what are the real side effects of sweetdreams when the results are taboo sex and bitter betrayal?
Publisher's While Clay and Alisha have no blood ties and their relationship is consensual, some readers, particularly those with a history of sexual abuse or incest, may find this story disturbing. This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and other situations that some readers may find Dubious consent, spanking.
Alisha has loved Clayton since they were kids. With his dark hair and pale gold eyes that look right through her, he captured her heart long ago. There's only one problem—Clay is her cousin by marriage.
Clay has been trying not to notice what a sexy, desirable woman his little cousin has turned into for years. Family ties are important to him and he's not about to alienate the people who love him and took him in when he was younger.
Alisha has tried everything to break down Clay's barriers and is about to give up when a golden opportunity arises. Testing for the sweetdreams drug is underway and Alisha volunteers to take the REM sleep enhancer that causes subjects to act out their dreams.
Now with a valid excuse to show her older cousin how she feels without consequences, Alisha will act out her most erotic fantasies in a final effort to get Clay between the sheets and into her love life forever. But how will Clay feel when he finds out he's been tricked into the forbidden relationship? And what are the real side effects of sweetdreams when the results are taboo sex and bitter betrayal?
Publisher's While Clay and Alisha have no blood ties and their relationship is consensual, some readers, particularly those with a history of sexual abuse or incest, may find this story disturbing. This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and other situations that some readers may find Dubious consent, spanking.
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First published July 7, 2009
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Evangeline Anderson
301 books5,059 followersEvangeline Anderson is a registered MRI tech who would rather be writing. And yes, she is nerdy enough to have a bumper sticker that says “I’d rather be writing.” Honk if you see her! She is thirty-something and lives in Florida with a husband, a son, and two cats. She had been writing erotic fiction for her own gratification for a number of years before it occurred to her to try and get paid for it. To her delight, she found that it was actually possible to get money for having a dirty mind and she has been writing paranormal and Sci-fi erotica steadily ever since.
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September 14, 2015
I'm back to my interracial romance novel phase and chose this since the author's name begins with an "A" on my Nook. I've read Evangeline Anderson before and The Man in the Black Leather Mask was pretty decent, so I figured two for two, right?
WRONG!!!
Sweet Dreams is just EPIC FAIL CENTRAL and that has nothing to do with the pseudo-incest theme. The Too Stupid To Live heroine (I wish I'd known that before I bought this book back in 2010) Alisha Johnson is described using food terms--again (cafe au lait) which means said heroine is going to resemble Beyonce or Halle Berry and have silky flowing locks down to her mid-back but built like a brick house, because in romancelandia, those are the only kind of black women who exist or who are worthy of being thought of as attractive.
Of course this story being set in 2046, it's nice for the author to let us know that in spite of all the wonderful innovations of the future, black women will still have issues with possessing kinky hair, since the main character's best friend, Deelah has undergone genetic modification to permanently straighten her "nappy" (the author's own words) hair and to increase her bust size. Whee, something to look forward to. The hero, Clayton, as sympathetic as I found him, also irritated the hell out of me with the whole "exoticness" angle--everytime he touched Alisha he had to mention "cafe au lait" skin or her "chocolate p*ssy". Just. No.
I hated Alisha. Can I say it again? I. HATED. ALISHA. I seldom hate a character and even the ones I don't like I can find something redeeming about them. Not happening here. I. HATED. THIS. BITCH!!! There's just nothing empowering or sexy about lying to the man you supposedly claim to love. There's nothing sexy about dismissing his concerns about what both your families would think if he acted on his deep attraction to you. There's nothing sexy about him allowing you to stay with him only for you to run around half-naked like a selfish little slut, which is exactly what I found Alisha to be. And I don't consider her a slut for liking sex, but for being a huge liar and not respecting Clayton's boundaries. If the situations were reversed, and this novel had the hero behaving in such a reprehensible and coercive manner, most readers would be up in arms.
Alisha talks her best friend who works for a research lab into giving her a three-week dosage of a drug called Sweetdreams, which is to be used to help facilitate long-distance space travel. The drug allows for those who take it to slow their metabolisms, but also to dream while doing so. During the initial trials, each subject had a partner who would monitor them for any signs of sleepwalking or other side effects. Alisha's "brilliant" plan to get into Clayton's pants is to convince him to monitor her at night but instead of taking the actual drug, she's given a placebo to make him think all her dirty fantasies about him stemmed from the drug and not from her. Except...the placebo actually wasn't, and all the hot cousin-not-cousin lovin' came from her being on the real Sweetdreams drug.
Poor Clayton has no idea he's being played and each time he has to monitor Alisha while under the influence, his willpower to not touch or do anything more to her just unravels. Yes he wants her too, but family is important to him as well, so yes he definitely is stuck between a rock and a hard place. This is the part where the sex is supposed to be uber-hot with lots of dirty talk and fantasy and spanking, but Alisha's actions just disgusted me. Seriously, the cousin thing I could have given a pass to. When he finds out what she's done he's rightfully pissed (as he should be) and if it were up to me I would have ended the book with Clayton tossing Alisha out on her perfect apple-butt and finding himself a good, honest white woman, but since this is a ROMANCE (???) there just had to be a happily-ever-after, even for a character who deserved a good kick in the ass and not the chance to ride off into the sunset with the hero. Poor Clayton feels guilty for sending Alisha packing, and goes off-world to retrieve his woman.
I realize this book was supposed to be "edgy" but it was just maddening.
WRONG!!!
Sweet Dreams is just EPIC FAIL CENTRAL and that has nothing to do with the pseudo-incest theme. The Too Stupid To Live heroine (I wish I'd known that before I bought this book back in 2010) Alisha Johnson is described using food terms--again (cafe au lait) which means said heroine is going to resemble Beyonce or Halle Berry and have silky flowing locks down to her mid-back but built like a brick house, because in romancelandia, those are the only kind of black women who exist or who are worthy of being thought of as attractive.
Of course this story being set in 2046, it's nice for the author to let us know that in spite of all the wonderful innovations of the future, black women will still have issues with possessing kinky hair, since the main character's best friend, Deelah has undergone genetic modification to permanently straighten her "nappy" (the author's own words) hair and to increase her bust size. Whee, something to look forward to. The hero, Clayton, as sympathetic as I found him, also irritated the hell out of me with the whole "exoticness" angle--everytime he touched Alisha he had to mention "cafe au lait" skin or her "chocolate p*ssy". Just. No.
I hated Alisha. Can I say it again? I. HATED. ALISHA. I seldom hate a character and even the ones I don't like I can find something redeeming about them. Not happening here. I. HATED. THIS. BITCH!!! There's just nothing empowering or sexy about lying to the man you supposedly claim to love. There's nothing sexy about dismissing his concerns about what both your families would think if he acted on his deep attraction to you. There's nothing sexy about him allowing you to stay with him only for you to run around half-naked like a selfish little slut, which is exactly what I found Alisha to be. And I don't consider her a slut for liking sex, but for being a huge liar and not respecting Clayton's boundaries. If the situations were reversed, and this novel had the hero behaving in such a reprehensible and coercive manner, most readers would be up in arms.
Alisha talks her best friend who works for a research lab into giving her a three-week dosage of a drug called Sweetdreams, which is to be used to help facilitate long-distance space travel. The drug allows for those who take it to slow their metabolisms, but also to dream while doing so. During the initial trials, each subject had a partner who would monitor them for any signs of sleepwalking or other side effects. Alisha's "brilliant" plan to get into Clayton's pants is to convince him to monitor her at night but instead of taking the actual drug, she's given a placebo to make him think all her dirty fantasies about him stemmed from the drug and not from her. Except...the placebo actually wasn't, and all the hot cousin-not-cousin lovin' came from her being on the real Sweetdreams drug.
Poor Clayton has no idea he's being played and each time he has to monitor Alisha while under the influence, his willpower to not touch or do anything more to her just unravels. Yes he wants her too, but family is important to him as well, so yes he definitely is stuck between a rock and a hard place. This is the part where the sex is supposed to be uber-hot with lots of dirty talk and fantasy and spanking, but Alisha's actions just disgusted me. Seriously, the cousin thing I could have given a pass to. When he finds out what she's done he's rightfully pissed (as he should be) and if it were up to me I would have ended the book with Clayton tossing Alisha out on her perfect apple-butt and finding himself a good, honest white woman, but since this is a ROMANCE (???) there just had to be a happily-ever-after, even for a character who deserved a good kick in the ass and not the chance to ride off into the sunset with the hero. Poor Clayton feels guilty for sending Alisha packing, and goes off-world to retrieve his woman.
I realize this book was supposed to be "edgy" but it was just maddening.
May 18, 2012
So eye-rollingly awful, I can't even bring myself to waste even more precious time by writing a thoughtful review.
March 18, 2017
Really long, kind of boring.
March 6, 2014
Another sweet, sexy romance from EA showcasing her creative WB, this time with a friends-to-lovers trope. But I couldn’t suspend disbelief enough for the “taboo” setup (I mean, c’mon—cousins by marriage?) which lessened the story’s tension/anticipation for me. Alas, novella length = more HFN vs. HEA but still, fast read with likable characters and some hot lovin’ :)
July 10, 2012
It was ok. The cuz thing was a bit irritating. Short story with sci-fi in the midst.
April 22, 2012
This was humorous and entertaining.
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