Prince of Dreams

It was difficult to get past the whole 'in love with her when she was 13 and he was 25' thing but the dream explained it away. She was spoiled and petulant in the beginning but we see her transformation. In my opinion, we don't see his as much. It's kind of rushed, I think. End result, I was glad to see him brought to his knees. No sympathy here.

I love the hero in this book!

This story is more emotional than the first in the Stokehurst series. As I mentioned in my review of "Midnight Angel", Lisa Kleypas gave us an idea that the hero in this story is Nikolai, and the heroine is Emma, Stokehurst's daughter through Tasia's vision. I don't mind a little paranormal stuff, I really enjoyed it. It's a given that Nikolai is a very flawed and...more

This story is more emotional than the first in the Stokehurst series. As I mentioned in my review of "Midnight Angel", Lisa Kleypas gave us an idea that the hero in this story is Nikolai, and the heroine is Emma, Stokehurst's daughter through Tasia's vision. I don't mind a little paranormal stuff, I really enjoyed it. It's a given that Nikolai is a very flawed and complex character with a tragic past, and a wounded soul. He still continued to be the villain in some ways but like in most romance novels, especially the ones written by LK, there's always character development where the hero or heroine redeems him/herself. I really didn't like the part where he still went whoring while he was married to Emma. It's in his character but it bothered me a lot that's why I only gave this a 4. Since I was very absorbed in reading the story, I felt Emma's hurt when she took a look at him and knew that he'd been to other women's beds. It took a past life regression through a dream for Nikki to realize how he valued Emma, and that they were soulmates. It's quite a different take on things but sure is effective. While the time frame composed of 3-4 months, we later read on that Nikki's been unconscious for an hour. I liked Emma a lot, she was free-spirited, vulnerable most of the time, and was easily manipulated. She's insecure about everything especially her looks but despite all that, she was still strong, she had pride, and was very loving. Even when she was regretting the marriage she made do with what she had and spent her energies with Nikolai's bastard son, and her animals of course. It all boiled down to fear from both of them. It was what held them back from giving all they got, and it's quite a common factor in all romances, characters don't want to be tied and be powerless that's why they build walls around themselves. This is one of her earlier works so I was wary of any rape scene, thankfully there's none. I really loved the paranormal angle.   hide

I was really looking forward to reading Nikolas & Emma's story after reading Midnight Angel. Unfortunately, after an interesting beginning it became a jumbled story of metaphysical mumbo jumbo that was so unbelievable that I wanted to throw the book away! Why oh why did she have to go there! It took all my strength to finish it.

This book was a great read. I really enjoyed it. It is a little different from her usual writings. She brings in some Russian superstitions and visions that make the book very interesting. Nikolas marries the wonderful Emma but is too afraid to get to close to her because of his past experiences growing up so he treats her rather mean and is very possessive of her. Emma is an out going girl who...more

This book was a great read. I really enjoyed it. It is a little different from her usual writings. She brings in some Russian superstitions and visions that make the book very interesting. Nikolas marries the wonderful Emma but is too afraid to get to close to her because of his past experiences growing up so he treats her rather mean and is very possessive of her. Emma is an out going girl who speaks her mind and wears men’s pants who doesn’t have very high self esteem and feels like she lost her true love because of her father and Nikolas. Nikolas loves all her strong qualities because it reminds him of women from his country which he is banned from. He has a vision when he faints one day after seeing a portrait of an ancestor from his past. He sees a life him and Emma once shared and realized how much he loves her and needs her. When he returns he tries to make it work with her and his son. There are a lot of ups and downs in this book. A very great love story. Nikolas is very mean in the beginning but you will fall in love with him. I recommend this book. Kleypas is a great writer and she doesn’t fail with this book. She even brings a new style in which makes it very worth the reading.   hide

russia royalty can't be more a pain in the arse and definitely intense..favorably intense!

I thought this book was alright. I'm glad it ended "happily ever after" cuz I had my doubts. The "Prince" was not the best person. At first I really didn't want them to get together. I think he even said he wanted to hurt her! I was like "WOOH!". But then he won my sympathy. When he goes back in time and was in prison, I was actually moved to tears!! It was...more

I thought this book was alright. I'm glad it ended "happily ever after" cuz I had my doubts. The "Prince" was not the best person. At first I really didn't want them to get together. I think he even said he wanted to hurt her! I was like "WOOH!". But then he won my sympathy. When he goes back in time and was in prison, I was actually moved to tears!! It was so sad, all I wanted was for him to get back to reality and get with his woman!   hide

cruel Prince..finds his weakness.

Me gustó mucho este libro...capta la escencia de los personajes...Me gustaria leer mas de esta autora