Dream Boy by Cassie-Ann L. Miller
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
“Come up to my room with me…”
The invitation came in a deep, husky voice as I was sobbing into my floral arrangement and consuming all the alcohol during the lowest night of my life. I should have said ‘no’. It was wrong to accept the handsome soldier’s offer. But I was hurting. I wanted those rough hands and those soft lips and that sculpted body on me.
I was never supposed to see him again. But two years later, he’s here—in Copper Heights—just as tall, rugged, and charming as the night we met. Meanwhile, I’ve got green pea puree in my hair, dark circles around my eyes, and I can’t remember the last time I changed out of these yoga pants. I’m different now. I’m a mother. Overworked, sleep deprived, and running on an empty tank. Plus, I have a business to run and I’m determined to prove that I can do it on my own. But he’s a distraction. He’s staring at me, his dark, compelling eyes raking my rumpled figure like I just stepped off a runway. I must be dreaming because there’s no way he’s attracted to me.
The charming tower of a man has his secrets and I’ve got mine. This is going to be a nightmare… so why is he watching me like I’m his dream come true?
Dream Boy
Secret baby/Military romance
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙❤️💜💚
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍
Character development: 🙂🥰☺️😋
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Dual Narration
The heroine: Sophie – Two years ago she was in Las Vegas to get married when she was ghosted by her fiancée at the alter. She was drinking and sobbing at the bar in her wedding gown when a magnificent looking man comes up to her and asks her to his room. He tells her that he is the perfect rebound and not only because he has impressive upper body strength. Within minutes he has her laughing, and she decides to make him her rebound and spends the night with him without even exchanging names.
The Hero: Archie – he was a military man who got injured by a roadside bomb in his last tour of duty and was stitched together in a military hospital. His left hand has nerve damage and is always stiff and painful. He was drifting around the country in his truck for a while and his two best friends talked him into coming to Copper Heights. He is doing odd jobs for Hartley construction company. He still hasn’t forgotten the girl from Las Vegas two years ago.
The Story: Sophie now has a one-and-a-half-year-old daughter named River. She has a good group of friends, and she has been doing daycare out of her home and she is currently in the process of moving it out of the house and opening a real day care center. She isn’t ready to date again, especially because she can’t get River’s father out of her mind. Since she won’t sign up for a dating app, her friends talk her into going out to a club for the night.
Sophie’s best friends take her out to the club and want to set her up with their husbands’ friend who is in town for a bit. She is not happy about it, especially because she is self conscious of her body. When Sophie meets the guy her friends were going to set her up with, she finds that he is the same man she hasn’t been able to get out of her mind.
I really liked both of these characters. I loved the fact they had never gotten each other out of their minds. Sophie was reluctant to tell Archie about River because he is the kind of guy that never stays in one place very long. Archie wanted Sophie so much, but he thinks that he is not good enough for her and thinks he is less than a man because of what happened to him. They were both good people and I loved the fact that Sophie was such a hard worker and how much she loves working with children.
This audiobook was told in dual points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Anastasia Watley and Tor Thom. Tor Thom always does a terrific job and has a nice deep voice which I enjoy. Anastasia Watley was a new narrator to me. Her voice isn’t annoying like some, but it definitely isn’t one of my favorites, it is a bit too deep for a heroine, though it does sound feminine, and her male voice is pretty good though it isn’t all that different from her female voice. Overall, the narration wasn’t too bad.
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