Dream Maker (Dream Team, #1)

by Kristen Ashley

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By 8% I was done with this book, but I pushed myself to read more. I ended up DNF'ing at 21%. I couldn't stand Evie. All she said when she was introduced was go on and on about how she was a millennial. She said this way too many times, then went off to explain why she was a millenial--in excruciating and exhausting detail--for 2 to 3 pages. She turned out to be a walking/talking stereotype.

Then there's Mag. At first he seemed like a hero I would like, until he wasn't. He turned out to be a guy I didn't like at all. He meets Evie at her place when her phone rings with a notification. This guy goes and GRABS her phone and reads the text message she had received (invasion of privacy, anyone?) THEY JUST MET! He doesn't need to go and grab her phone and invade her privacy! Again, THEY. JUST. MET. As if that wasn't enough, he basically threatens her with hacking into her phone so he can read all of her texts and listen to her phone calls if she kicks him out of her apartment. EXCUSE ME?! Thank you, next. He was an asshole.

Let's go to the writing. *cue all the eye-rolls in the world* The writing is so freaking cringy! I understand this is the author's style of writing and I understand including details, but... Is it just me or is it unbelievably childish? Does every boring detail needs to be included? Not only that, we get a lot of thought-vomit, to the point where I would get lost and couldn't keep track of what was the point of the heroine's thought-rant. I'm not kidding when I say an entire paragraph would be dedicated to explaining something so insignificant. I honestly couldn't deal.

Everything I read was super cringy. I searched for reviews on GR, and from one that I read I can tell it doesn't get better. By the looks of it, it gets worse. I ended up officially giving up on this book. Just thinking about it makes me cringe and roll my eyes.