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Night World #2
Dream Of Me
Lucia, an innocent princess, becomes the prey of an incubus, a bringer of carnal dreams, who steals her virginity and imprisons her with desire, which leads to the unexpected--a lifetime of love. Original.
352 pages, Paperback
First published September 26, 2004
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Lisa Cach
48 books203 followersLisa Cach grew up in a farm near Portland, Oregon, a place she loves although she'd always trying to leave it. Wanderlust has led her to sail the Sargasso Sea, teach English in Japan, and trek the leech-infested jungles of Borneo. She has degrees in both English and psychology, two subjects that were fun to learn about but that guaranteed her low-paying jobs. Her father, she admits, may have been right about the MBA.
Lisa started to writing romances in her parents' basement during snatched moments from work. Since her writing career began her free time has become less and less as her novels become more and more popular. She's loved romance novels since Junior High School, and at least now she doesn't have to worry about getting caught reading one. Lisa married, and bought with her husband a home in Seattle, Washington. She describes her personal paradise as "...a pile of books, a plate of brownies, and the free time in which to enjoy them".
Lisa started to writing romances in her parents' basement during snatched moments from work. Since her writing career began her free time has become less and less as her novels become more and more popular. She's loved romance novels since Junior High School, and at least now she doesn't have to worry about getting caught reading one. Lisa married, and bought with her husband a home in Seattle, Washington. She describes her personal paradise as "...a pile of books, a plate of brownies, and the free time in which to enjoy them".
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October 23, 2009
This is not your typical paranormal romance. This, to me is a good thing, especially considering the young sheltered virgin heroine and the sex demon hero bent on revenge against her brutal fiancee. Those elements scream cliche and left me expecting the typical tortured bad boy falling in love with a self sacrificing twit who couldn't find her way out of paper bag. Instead, the heroine actually grew up throughout the story, and rather than having a martyr complex, she actually was a blend of giving and selfish like an actual believable human. The hero also changed throughout the story in a good way. Also, the story was sexy, with lots of inventive dream seduction.
The book's main flaw is that it ends too abruptly, given the wonderful build up and the growth the author allows her characters to have. I think if the resolution had been more developed this would be an unqualified keeper for me. Instead, it has me curious and looking for more of Lisa Cach's books to read. Since I love paranormals, yet often want to scream at the cliches, I found this book refreshing and lovely, so if you are looking for typical fare go elsewhere. If you want something a little different, consider giving this a try.
February 20, 2025
The February 2025 #TBRChallenge is “Previously, in Romance...” If this book choice is a surprise to anyone, you haven't been paying attention, LOL.
I absolutely loved the first book in this duet; unfortunately, this would did not live up to its predecessor's glory. It was always going to be a hard sell for me to make Theron a hero after his behavior in the last book, and the rehabilitation didn't quite hit the mark for me.
As we know from Come to Me, Theron had Samira give Dragosh of Maramures a revolting nightmare about his younger sister, Lucia, in order to break the betrothal between Lucia and Nicholae of Moldavia, in order to pave the way for an alliance between Lucia and Vlad Draco instead. Theron did this as part of a bargain he struck with Vlad: he'd deliver Lucia if Vlad would allow him to inhabit his mortal body for 3 days.
Vlad, of course, reneges on the deal, and it takes Theron six years to come to this realization. Once he does, he decides that he's going to destroy Lucia's purity and innocence, the two qualities that Vlad prizes most in his young bride-to-be. He seeks Lucia out, finding her at an abandoned castle on top of a mountain, surrounded by disinterested women and wearing an amulet that has kept incubi at bay. Once he realizes that the key to his plan is getting Lucia to remove the necklace, it's game on in his mind.
Meanwhile Nyx, the Queen of the Night, has decided that she wants to add Theron to her harem of lovers. Theron doesn't want this - he wants to be mortal, and matter in the world - so he bargains for 30 days to "say goodbye" to his old life, in which time he will really work on his plan to gain control of Vlad's body as he was promised all those years ago.
This story just didn't work for me on a bunch of levels:
1) I didn't really like either main character. Lucia is 20 years old but has been kept ignorant of the world. She knows nothing of sex or reproduction (thus keeping her "pure" for her murderous, rapist fiancé) or life, in general, even though she has a sixth sense and can basically stay lucid while dreaming. She saw Theron briefly when she was 14 and the original nightmare had been given to Dragosh, but even her curiosity about him is limited. Apparently she is completely devoid of hormones as well as being made to feel deeply shameful about various impure thoughts and body parts. She's also very stubborn in her stupidity; the entire book is about her figuring out what sex is and what it's for and where babies come from, which was just hard to swallow coming from an otherwise healthy adult female. Worse yet, Theron hones in on her feelings of shame and plays into them as he works his wiles on her in her dreams, so a lot of the sex play is based on shame, the thrill of shame, and bodies betraying themselves. Ugh. This is not my cup of tea at all.
Theron spends most of his time deep in his fee-fees about being so old and insignificant. I suppose this *gestures to the world in general* time isn't the greatest to be reading about some poor insecure male who craves power above all else. I had zero sympathy for him, and even less when he realizes what a putrid, evil asshole Vlad Draco is and still longs to inhabit his body, because he's such a powerful military ruler who could someday consolidate his power. By the end, I wanted to shake him and tell him to find another body already but the pursuit of Vlad was extra gross, heaping onto all the shameful sex stuff. Double ugh!
Vlad goes without further comment. He is depicting as raping his way across the country, and says some super vile things about what he wants to do to Lucia when he finally bothers to retrieve her.
There's also a couple of mad religious figures (Gabriel, Vlad's opium-addicted brother who is sent to capture Theron in a jug; Theresa, the half-mad ancient nun who was charged with Lucia's education) that don't add much except distraction.
2) The magic of the world no longer makes sense. Theron is supposed to be a being who has no heart, no soul, and no feelings, yet somehow he nurses this grudge against Vlad and falls in love with Lucia, thus growing a soul and making the deus ex machina ending possible. This was the worldbuilding falling around its ears in service of this plot, which was really disappointing.
3) All of the sex stuff is rapey and/or cringeworthy, both in "real life" and Lucia's dreams. If I never hear the words "crotch monster" again, it will be too soon.
4) The epilogue brings us the birth of Vlad Dracula, aka Vlad the Impaler, aka Dracula the vampire, so does that really count as an HEA? 🤔
This was readable, but not convincing, especially when read in such close proximity with the first book. A disappointment, for sure, but not enough to put me off this author's work.
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I absolutely loved the first book in this duet; unfortunately, this would did not live up to its predecessor's glory. It was always going to be a hard sell for me to make Theron a hero after his behavior in the last book, and the rehabilitation didn't quite hit the mark for me.
As we know from Come to Me, Theron had Samira give Dragosh of Maramures a revolting nightmare about his younger sister, Lucia, in order to break the betrothal between Lucia and Nicholae of Moldavia, in order to pave the way for an alliance between Lucia and Vlad Draco instead. Theron did this as part of a bargain he struck with Vlad: he'd deliver Lucia if Vlad would allow him to inhabit his mortal body for 3 days.
Vlad, of course, reneges on the deal, and it takes Theron six years to come to this realization. Once he does, he decides that he's going to destroy Lucia's purity and innocence, the two qualities that Vlad prizes most in his young bride-to-be. He seeks Lucia out, finding her at an abandoned castle on top of a mountain, surrounded by disinterested women and wearing an amulet that has kept incubi at bay. Once he realizes that the key to his plan is getting Lucia to remove the necklace, it's game on in his mind.
Meanwhile Nyx, the Queen of the Night, has decided that she wants to add Theron to her harem of lovers. Theron doesn't want this - he wants to be mortal, and matter in the world - so he bargains for 30 days to "say goodbye" to his old life, in which time he will really work on his plan to gain control of Vlad's body as he was promised all those years ago.
This story just didn't work for me on a bunch of levels:
1) I didn't really like either main character. Lucia is 20 years old but has been kept ignorant of the world. She knows nothing of sex or reproduction (thus keeping her "pure" for her murderous, rapist fiancé) or life, in general, even though she has a sixth sense and can basically stay lucid while dreaming. She saw Theron briefly when she was 14 and the original nightmare had been given to Dragosh, but even her curiosity about him is limited. Apparently she is completely devoid of hormones as well as being made to feel deeply shameful about various impure thoughts and body parts. She's also very stubborn in her stupidity; the entire book is about her figuring out what sex is and what it's for and where babies come from, which was just hard to swallow coming from an otherwise healthy adult female. Worse yet, Theron hones in on her feelings of shame and plays into them as he works his wiles on her in her dreams, so a lot of the sex play is based on shame, the thrill of shame, and bodies betraying themselves. Ugh. This is not my cup of tea at all.
Theron spends most of his time deep in his fee-fees about being so old and insignificant. I suppose this *gestures to the world in general* time isn't the greatest to be reading about some poor insecure male who craves power above all else. I had zero sympathy for him, and even less when he realizes what a putrid, evil asshole Vlad Draco is and still longs to inhabit his body, because he's such a powerful military ruler who could someday consolidate his power. By the end, I wanted to shake him and tell him to find another body already but the pursuit of Vlad was extra gross, heaping onto all the shameful sex stuff. Double ugh!
Vlad goes without further comment. He is depicting as raping his way across the country, and says some super vile things about what he wants to do to Lucia when he finally bothers to retrieve her.
There's also a couple of mad religious figures (Gabriel, Vlad's opium-addicted brother who is sent to capture Theron in a jug; Theresa, the half-mad ancient nun who was charged with Lucia's education) that don't add much except distraction.
2) The magic of the world no longer makes sense. Theron is supposed to be a being who has no heart, no soul, and no feelings, yet somehow he nurses this grudge against Vlad and falls in love with Lucia, thus growing a soul and making the deus ex machina ending possible. This was the worldbuilding falling around its ears in service of this plot, which was really disappointing.
3) All of the sex stuff is rapey and/or cringeworthy, both in "real life" and Lucia's dreams. If I never hear the words "crotch monster" again, it will be too soon.
4) The epilogue brings us the birth of Vlad Dracula, aka Vlad the Impaler, aka Dracula the vampire, so does that really count as an HEA? 🤔
This was readable, but not convincing, especially when read in such close proximity with the first book. A disappointment, for sure, but not enough to put me off this author's work.
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January 3, 2015
Lisa Cach writes paranormal romance for people who dislike paranormal romance. Incubus! Yowsa.
January 27, 2023
“Dream of me”
Due stelline e mezza
Secondo libro di una miniserie senza nome, Dream of me è il seguito di Come to me (Ti sto aspettando, Dark Passion n° 28), con il quale si intreccia diverse volte e condivide addirittura alcuni brani (ripetuti, ma con points of views differenti). Nonostante per certi versi risulti più credibile e meno ingenuo del precedente volume, Dream of Me manca sia della sua atmosfera e dimensione un poco sognanti che lo rendevano quasi una sorta di favola innovativa – e decisamente adulta –, sia della ricchezza data da certi brani luminosi e quasi lirici che caratterizzavano la storia del succubus Samira. Qui, invece, l’espediente del protagonista incubus che permette all’autrice di incentrare tutta la storia sul sesso, risulta troppo forzato. E, sinceramente, stanca, saturando quasi l’intera trama. Nonostante questo, al libro è da riconoscere il merito di riuscire a emozionare e il finale – che non svelo – è inatteso e apre le porte all’ultimo capitolo della serie, una novella breve – apparsa nell’antologia Blood & Moonlight – con protagonista Vlad Dracula, in cui si racconta come il principe della Valacchia, già nominato nei precedenti due libri, sia stato trasformato dall’amore e dalla tragedia nel primo vampiro.
(29 novembre 2012)
Due stelline e mezza
Secondo libro di una miniserie senza nome, Dream of me è il seguito di Come to me (Ti sto aspettando, Dark Passion n° 28), con il quale si intreccia diverse volte e condivide addirittura alcuni brani (ripetuti, ma con points of views differenti). Nonostante per certi versi risulti più credibile e meno ingenuo del precedente volume, Dream of Me manca sia della sua atmosfera e dimensione un poco sognanti che lo rendevano quasi una sorta di favola innovativa – e decisamente adulta –, sia della ricchezza data da certi brani luminosi e quasi lirici che caratterizzavano la storia del succubus Samira. Qui, invece, l’espediente del protagonista incubus che permette all’autrice di incentrare tutta la storia sul sesso, risulta troppo forzato. E, sinceramente, stanca, saturando quasi l’intera trama. Nonostante questo, al libro è da riconoscere il merito di riuscire a emozionare e il finale – che non svelo – è inatteso e apre le porte all’ultimo capitolo della serie, una novella breve – apparsa nell’antologia Blood & Moonlight – con protagonista Vlad Dracula, in cui si racconta come il principe della Valacchia, già nominato nei precedenti due libri, sia stato trasformato dall’amore e dalla tragedia nel primo vampiro.
(29 novembre 2012)
December 9, 2020
The part 2 of Night World following Come with Me book. Want to know what happen the succubus's incubus friend, Theron? Well wait no longer, his story is here! Loved reading it. Lisa thoroughly researched the folklore of the sex demons. Not very often I get to read a book about a male sex demon. Dream of Me bring in a point of view of sheltered sweet Lucia interactions with a the sex demon named Theron in her dreams. I can read this again and definitely recommend this book.
January 6, 2018
Perfect travel read for today. Really enjoyed the incubus lore and the fairy tale feel to Lucia’s story.
June 17, 2020
Thin fantasy-romance-sex gruel about beings who have sex with humans in sleep or dream and blahblah; part of a series. It wasn't the worst, but not great to me--
June 21, 2011
Theron is an undying creature of the Night World, he is an incubus, a ceature who invades dreams of women to give them what they desire...
Theron loves Lucia but can not touch her except in dreams
Vlad is a monster with a cruel streak a mile wide, making wars with neighbouring countries and plundering their treasures
Theron wants to take over Vlad's body - but not to rule the world but to make love to Lucia who is Vlad's fiance...
All his plans fall through until he does it for love - he surrenders to save her and suddenly he has what he has longed for, Vlad is destroyed, he can enjoy a mortal life with his bride Lucia... Theron is known as Draco... and the people are happy with him as ruler, all wars are over
There is a curious twist at the end of the book when Theron's son is born ...
Theron loves Lucia but can not touch her except in dreams
Vlad is a monster with a cruel streak a mile wide, making wars with neighbouring countries and plundering their treasures
Theron wants to take over Vlad's body - but not to rule the world but to make love to Lucia who is Vlad's fiance...
All his plans fall through until he does it for love - he surrenders to save her and suddenly he has what he has longed for, Vlad is destroyed, he can enjoy a mortal life with his bride Lucia... Theron is known as Draco... and the people are happy with him as ruler, all wars are over
There is a curious twist at the end of the book when Theron's son is born ...
August 16, 2009
Wow! I loved this book.
I started reading it on our camping trip this weekend and found that I got irritated every time I was interruped.
It was hilarious. I laughed out loud numerous times as I read it.
The romance was sizzling!
Funny thing is that when I had only gotten 20 pages in, my friend told me that she had read this author before and hated the way she writes. So, I was worried. Thankfully, I really enjoyed reading it and now hope to buy it.
I want to read more like this, but it seems the author only has one other similar book called Come to Me. I will have to check that out.
I started reading it on our camping trip this weekend and found that I got irritated every time I was interruped.
It was hilarious. I laughed out loud numerous times as I read it.
The romance was sizzling!
Funny thing is that when I had only gotten 20 pages in, my friend told me that she had read this author before and hated the way she writes. So, I was worried. Thankfully, I really enjoyed reading it and now hope to buy it.
I want to read more like this, but it seems the author only has one other similar book called Come to Me. I will have to check that out.
June 18, 2011
This book STINKS--never thought I'd say that about any book, but after 200 pages of boring, repetitive writing I give it up. Its gone nowhere, very boringly I might add, and has nothing to hold my interest. If this is on your to read list just give it up. I never thought a book about an incubus could be so BLAH but this. On a scale of 1 - 10 this is about a - 10.
February 3, 2010
This is the 1st book i've read by Lisa Cach and I will be deffinitley grabbing for something else by her very soon. I wasn't sure I was going to like it and bought it on sale from the bookstore.
I'm so glad I did it might even be a new fav.
I'm so glad I did it might even be a new fav.
November 5, 2012
loved this book what more can I say read it and see
June 27, 2022
Enjoyment ★★★★★
Concept ★★★☆☆
Writing Style ★★★☆☆
Characters ★★★★☆
Plot/Pacing ★★★★☆
Ending ★★★☆☆
World Building ★★★☆☆
Concept ★★★☆☆
Writing Style ★★★☆☆
Characters ★★★★☆
Plot/Pacing ★★★★☆
Ending ★★★☆☆
World Building ★★★☆☆
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