What Dreams May Come

By: Dana LeCheminant

Narrated by: Noah Wall

In a bid to escape the incessant attentions of a man she does not love, governess Lucy Hayes embarks on a journey to begin a new post. But when she’s stranded in a storm, her plans go shockingly awry. Desperate times call for desperate measures: against her better judgment, she agrees to a foolhardy scheme presented by a handsome stranger, known to her as only William. But when her mysterious benefactor falls ill, she finds herself unwittingly drawn into his family home in a case of mistaken identity: they believe she is William’s betrothed. Though she realizes she should admit the truth, the family’s warmth and welcome make it all too easy to play along, just for a while. Until she meets Baron Lord Simon Calloway, William’s older brother.

Simon is suspicious of his lovely future sister-in-law, a woman who seems completely unsuited to his self-important brother. As they wait for William to awake, Simon and Lucy are drawn ever closer together. But danger draws closer too, in the form of her unwanted suitor. Lucy knows that when Simon discovers the truth, he will despise her. Now she must find a way to keep herself safe . . . and avoid falling hopelessly in love with a man she can never have.

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Fun and engaging!

Such a fun book! This was my first by this author and I really enjoyed it. The story is engaging and difficult to put down, a regency retelling of While You Were Sleeping. The characters have such personality (I can’t wait for Nick’s story!) and the dialogue and banter is great.

I admit, there is a bit of insta-love between Lucy and the entire family, but especially Simon... And there was excessive angst and relationship tension with Lucy going back and forth about revealing the truth (which went so far as to border on ridiculous). It doesn’t matter, though. I enjoyed reading it so much there’s no way I could give it anything less than 5-stars… and I’ve already downloaded the next book in the series 🤓

Another note in its favor, Noah Wall does the audiobook narration and does a fantastic job, as usual. She has to be my favorite regency narrator, just perfect.

Content:
There is no foul language, sex, or violence. The FMC is stalked by an unwanted suitor and forcibly carried off so he can marry her, but he isn’t physically abusive (just creepy and delusional). The romance is limited to lightly descriptive kisses. There is no mention of faith or God.

Not Horrible

I liked the narration, the writing was okay, and I enjoyed that it was a clean story, I also liked the old Sandra Bullock movie, "while you were sleeping" which was NOT like this story. What made the novel less than averarge for me, was I found the main characters, much of their thoughts and behaviors, too stupid to believe.

Excellent read

Loved the plot and romance and whole story line! Also, Noah is one of the best performers in reading. I find books to read because of her reading skills!

Discovered a new author!

Stumbled across this author after listening to a compilation piece featuring one of her shorter stories. I searched for other pieces from her and found this new release. Enjoyed it immensely. Narrator was easy to listen to and it is a sweet story line.

Awesome retelling of While You Were Sleeping

I loved everything about this book. I love the 90s movie While You Were Sleeping and this is an awesome retelling of that story. The author took many creative liberties and changed enough of the story that I never knew what might happen. 10 out of 10 would read again.

Kept our attention!

My two daughters and I very much enjoyed this book. I like to purchase books over 10 hours with my credit and it's hard to find clean period stories that aren't wordy or boring. This book was neither. It kept our attention throughout. Please write more and preferably long ones, thanks!

Nice story

Easy to listen to and enjoyed the narration. Interested to listen to other books by the same author and hopefully the same narrator.

A predictable story

The story was a little dull until Nick Forester came in with some comic relief. Still I enjoyed the listen.

One of my favorites

I absolutely adore this book!!! It’s clean entertaining and fun. The author truly made each character come to life. I couldn’t put it down and finished it to quickly!!!! I would love to have a book telling Nick’s story!!! I agree that it is similar to while you were sleeping the movie which is one of my favorites paired with my favorite genre, regency romance. It’s a win-win!!! Love it see it as a movie as long as Hollywood does ruin it

Contrived and way too drawn out…

I actually forgot that I had already listened to this until I got back into it... Kind of a “While You Were Sleeping” vibe that just dragged on all just to create more drama.
By the last 3rd of the story, there were ample opportunities for conflict resolution but flimsy and out of character excuses for why it didn’t happen. Plus he knew it, practically accepted it, then was mad and a jerk instead of relieved so we could pull out one more chapter? Ugh… Why not use the villain for more of your drama instead? Why not flesh out THAT story a bit in her kidnapping? He was just kind of the convenient bad guy. The danger was alluded to SO much so why not? Why was that such a danger? Why would that be so traumatic?
It was just a frustrating listen and now I remember why I didn’t remember it… 2nd book is MUCH better…