This is the first time I didn't finish reading a book. It was poorly written I didn't want to finish it just to get it over with. I'm gonna rest from this series for a bit and read other more interesting books, with a fresh storyline and creative plot, new characters, and a touch of something that would move me because apparently, this book doesn't have those.

I read the reviews before reading this book and it's a good thing the copy I have is an ebook, I wouldn't spend a cent for this. The lines were repetitive, the betrayal was nothing new and characters were really boring. Everything's predictable that's why even if I didn't finish this I know what would happen.

I highly recommend for you to skip this, even for the hardcore Sherrilyn Kenyon fans. It's seemed like a patched-up work from different ideas, everything was in shambles. ( )

Aiden is the most handsome, successful actor to come out of Hollywood since Brad Pitt. But betrayals by family members- and by the woman he loved- has made him a bitter recluse.

However his family isn't done with him yet. His psycho brother Donnie has awakened the ancient god Dolor (Ultimate Pain) and is dead set on siccing him on Aiden. Little does Donnie know that when he awakened Pain to do his dirty work, he also awakened the Dream Hunter/Goddess who once placed Dolor in stasis for thousands of years.

Leta has a mission to complete- stop Dolor once and for all- but when she shows up at Aiden's cabin to help the soul-wounded man who is Dolor's next target she knows it's going to be a tough sell. (He doesn't even want to let her in!) And even though she arranges circumstances to give him no other choice, he's does his best to make her feel less than welcome.

No worries, by the time the true reason for her appearance arises- as well as the fact she's a goddess sent to aid him- he's ready to accept her story because he's already falling for her ... and too, he has no other choice but to believe her as she's been in his dreams from the very beginning!

The final showdown and it's denouement is the most romantic part of this fantastical tale, and I did find it romantic. (The whole almost destroying the world through ultimate love is always a winner!)

But I have one big issue with UTMC that makes this novel- such as it is- my biggest disappointment in the Dark Hunter/Dream Hunterverse.

That being the fact it is actually a novella the publishers stretched into a regular sized paperback by making the font bigger. All well and good except they kept the price the same. (Note to Publisher: People don't like feeling cheated. If you continue to do this you'll lose us.)

Add that to the fact the story is fairly forgettable, if a tad self indulgent- (I found myself struggling to remember the plot enough to review it and I couldn't help feeling the entire thing was Kenyon getting back at her detractors)- and you get a 2 out of 5 from me. ( )

Leta, a dream hunter, has been chased out of the dream world and into the unkown human world by a ruthless enemy and into the home of Aidan.

Aidan was a celebrity. After being betrayed by those he loved and trusted he gave it all up for a solitary life. When Leta shows up he recognizes her as the woman from his dreams.

Aidan does not trust Leta but he can not send her out into the brutal snow storm. With nowhere to go they must learn to trust each other and enter into the world of dreams to defeat the enemy. ( )

I don't know what this was. Kenyon says its a breather from her other world...it was an OK story...there really was no lead up to the sex...I felt like it was just there and there really was no suspense...I didn't believe for a minute that the heroes wouldn't win. Overall just OK. ( )

Aiden is the world's most popular movie star (even beating out Brad Pitt as world's sexiest guy!) whose fame has brought him to be wronged by everybody and his brother, forcing him into early retirement. Leta is a dream goddess wronged by Zeus and the god of pain, Dolor, leading her to curse Dolor and retire them both to a millennium in stasis. When Aiden's insane and imprisoned brother makes a blood sacrifice to bring Dolor back Leta is determined that she will not allow Aiden to become a victim. Now she must use her womanly wiles to gain the trust of a man who has sworn never to trust again.

This certainly wasn't one of the more impressive books by this author. It seemed to me that it would have worked out much better if Aiden's redundant whining about how he got screwed over by everyone he ever loved, which went on for pages, was pared down and this had been simply left as a short story. I will say that once the characters and plot actually got moving towards the end it did get a bit better, but it was really a case of too little too late.

I found the little Christmas excerpts interesting, I'm especially looking forward to Aimee and Fang's story (I'm certainly interested in seeing Nicholette eat a little crow) and, of course, Nick's predicament always gets me as well.

Overall, the main story felt either like it was something the publisher rushed the author to complete or a short vignette that the powers that be ordered into something more than it should have been. Either way, padding a story out with pages of insipid feeling sorry for yourself woe certainly doesn't work for me. Typically I adore Kenyon's stories and am very glad this is not one of the first I read by her or I might have missed out on some really good stuff! ( )