Caitlyn Cloud's Reviews > In Your Dreams, Holden Rhodes

** spoiler alert ** Disappointing.

I had hope when it started out. But there was just too much, it was too convoluted. If it had just been the forced proximity trope it would have been better. The added layer of matchmaking/friends with benefits was weird and unnecessary.
All of the characters in these books are supposed to be in their thirties but they all have the maturity of a 22 year old. If I let myself remember they’re 30+ it just makes the book worse to me.
There were so many lines that just hurt to read lol
“My soul evaporated into the atmosphere” because of a hug.
“Fed his cock into me” 🤢
“Changed my DNA”
“Worked my soul out through my cock” 🤣
Just what?

The smut scenes were painfully long. I can usually dismiss my issues with the smut in books, but good lord some were like 3 chapters long here.

I think I started being really bored with it once Sadie jumped to the conclusion that Holden loves her. It was a bit annoying before that because of their whole “he doesn’t want me he wants a wife” and “she doesn’t want me cause she said who would when they could have one of my brothers.” 🙄 But once they proclaimed their love I was just bored and wanted it to be over. Because obviously the conflict was going to be something stupid. And it was. Also, her saying the thing about his brothers was made into such a big deal for Holden but when it’s brought up they spend less than a paragraph talking about it.

I had higher hopes for this because I enjoyed book 2 so much. But with how bad this was I’m second guessing if book 2 was even good or if I just happened to be in the better headspace for it at the time. This book was on par with book 1, which I absolutely did not enjoy. And book 4 had potential to be so good but with how she’s set it up it’s just gonna be annoying. It coulda been best friends to lovers and now it’s gonna be enemies to lovers and I guarantee Finn will be as childish as Emmett.