Title : We Met in Dreams
Author : Rowan McAllister
Genre : Historical Romance, M/M Romance, Gay Romance
Published : February 27th 2017
My Rating : 4.75 of 5 Stars
In Victorian London, during a prolonged and pernicious fog, fantasy and reality are about to collide—at least in one man’s troubled mind.
A childhood fever left Arthur Middleton, Viscount Campden, seeing and hearing things no one else does, afraid of the world outside, and unable to function as a true peer of the realm. To protect him from himself—and to protect others from him—he spends his days heavily medicated and locked in his rooms, and his nights in darkness and solitude, tormented by visions, until a stranger appears.
This apparition is different. Fox says he’s a thief and not an entirely good sort of man, yet he returns night after night to ease Arthur’s loneliness without asking for anything in return. Fox might be the key that sets Arthur free, or he might deliver the final blow to Arthur’s tenuous grasp on sanity. Either way, real or imaginary, Arthur needs him too much to care.
Fox is only one of the many secrets and specters haunting Campden House, and Arthur will have to face them all in order to live the life of his dreams.
A childhood fever left Arthur Middleton, Viscount Campden, seeing and hearing things no one else does, afraid of the world outside, and unable to function as a true peer of the realm. To protect him from himself—and to protect others from him—he spends his days heavily medicated and locked in his rooms, and his nights in darkness and solitude, tormented by visions, until a stranger appears.
This apparition is different. Fox says he’s a thief and not an entirely good sort of man, yet he returns night after night to ease Arthur’s loneliness without asking for anything in return. Fox might be the key that sets Arthur free, or he might deliver the final blow to Arthur’s tenuous grasp on sanity. Either way, real or imaginary, Arthur needs him too much to care.
Fox is only one of the many secrets and specters haunting Campden House, and Arthur will have to face them all in order to live the life of his dreams.
I was a damaged. I was a man who could not trust his own mind, no matter how hard I wished it weren't so.
This was not a prison but a haven to keep me safe and to keep others safe from me. I belonged here. I was well taken care of. This was my home...
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I knew this book gonna be something since the very first time I saw the cover and read the blurb.
The story a bit 'unique' and enough to make the hair behind my back stand.
The mystery that build from the start succeed gained my curiosity.
Whether what Arthur have is just a visions of his imagination or was it real, the author write it in very interesting way and it made this story really hard to put it down. With the very slow pace, surprisingly the story far from boring. Because in every page I turned made me curious even more with what actually happen to Arthur.
The way Arthur thought at first that Fox was just one of the vision he create due to his 'illness'. The way Fox trying to 'help' Arthur and convinced him that he IS normal and don't deserve to be isolated in his own house. I can fell the emotions wrapping me at the whole reading. So intense...
I like the slowly growing feeling and connection between Arthur and Fox. There's sadness there and also caring, the fragility blend well with warmness feels that growing between the two. It's all gave the butterflies in my tummy flutter constantly.
I love every part in this book, but I must admit that I'm a bit disappointed with the unsure-HFN ending. I still want to know what will happen next with them. But the abruptly end kinda ruined the excitement that grew in me since the beginning.
But I think this book still WORTH to try and I'll recommended it to you because YES! no matter what I felt about the ending, this book had successfully secured it place in my heart...
When the whole world seems mad, a madman is as sane as anyone....
