I Dream of You

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Summary: Full-figured Heroine:
Review:       While visiting her grandmother in the Florida Keys, a jilted and humiliated Maddie Winston finds a tarnished old bottle bobbing in the turquoise waters of the Gulf. After giving it a good polishing to see what it was made of, smoke trailed from the bottle's mouth and out pours an honest-to-goodness Chippendale-dancer-like genie.

And why not? With all the trouble Maddie has had lately, what with her fiancé secretly marrying another woman, her company going down the drain, and her uncle trying to sell her up the river, the distraught CEO could use a few good miracles!

What worked for me:

As much as I love kilted Highland heroes, I have to say that Sultans are good too. Ben was absolutely delicious!

Size-wise Maddie's fiancé was always pressuring her to diet and change her looks, and as a child she'd always lived in awe of her late mother's unparalled beauty. By the time Ben had found her she was rather demoralized where her appearance was concerned. Fortunately for her, he was quite enthralled with her curvy figure just as it was.

What didn't work for me:

    It was hard to believe that the thousand-years-old-plus son of a sultan could drop in on modern times and swallow feminism without so much as batting an eyelash. Especially when I consider how many guys born in this era still don't get it.
I'll never again be able to read a book with even the slightest reference to the World Trade Center without being pulled out of the story.

Overall:

     A cute, quick read for fans of paranormals and time-travels alike.

If you liked "I Dream of You" you might also enjoy "Say You're Mine", "Etta Mae's Little Theory", or "Dear Cupid".

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Summary: WOW, what woman can resist a man who will grant her every
Review: desire. This first time book by Judi McCoy is wonderful. Funny, sexy and filled with surprises. The author has a knack for twisting the plot and making it sing. And Ben is possibly the most sexy dream character ever created. I can't wait to read her next book, coming in December of 2001.

Rating:
Summary: WOW, what woman can resist a man who will grant her every
Review: desire. This first time book by Judi McCoy is wonderful. Funny, sexy and filled with surprises. The author has a knack for twisting the plot and making it sing. And Ben is possibly the most sexy dream character ever created. I can't wait to read her next book, coming in December of 2001.

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Summary: A good story
Review: First of all, let me say that Ben is sooo sweet, I swear he was more like an angel than a djinn. Fortunately , he ditches the MCP (male chauvanist pig) cultural bias really quickly, and adjusts "like magic" to the here and now. The story is charmingly unbelievable, entertaining, and funny. A must read.

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Summary: I dream of you
Review: I like this book, it has a very good plot to it with suspend and mystery. But the female character is really boring, lame with no imagination and no spunk to her. Reading it can't help but thinking she is overweight, too real...(the female character). It is not as funny as you want it to be but it is fast pace and make a good bedtime reading.

Rating:
Summary: I dream of you
Review: I like this book, it has a very good plot to it with suspend and mystery. But the female character is really boring, lame with no imagination and no spunk to her. Reading it can't help but thinking she is overweight, too real...(the female character). It is not as funny as you want it to be but it is fast pace and make a good bedtime reading.

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Summary: Give This A Miss
Review: I read Judi McCoy's second book, You're The One, before reading this. For some reason, I just didn't enjoy this book as I did the second one.

Maybe it's because the book constantly portrayed Ben as a kind of helpless guy since he is a genie and has to obey commands. Everytime his past was mentioned, he is so extremely ashamed although none of it was his fault. And when he was finally freed of the curse, his genie bottle `spit' him out in a cave. He walked out of a cave and found himself in a warzone in the Middle East? What is that all about?

So then he took a month to get back to Maddie, who in the meantime met up with Aladdin and his dying genie to help her find Ben. Corny? Wait till you read what happens after that. I don't think I will go on any further.

Anyway, my advice? Give this a miss. Head for Judi McCoy's second book - You're The One.

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Summary: Wow! This one is a keeper!
Review: I really didn't know what to expect when I picked this book up at the store, but I am so happy that I did. The storyline is cute, and the characters are great in that they don't overload the story with too much sugariness. The best thing about this one for me is that it could have been so bad, but McCoy manages to make it really wonderful instead. It's always nice to see an author take a chance and succeed.

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Summary: A Best Beach Read
Review: If you want to have fun, escape for a bit and get in a little romance, I Dream of You is the right book to pick up. It's really hard to find in paperback now since the author won that Waldenbooks award, but well worth it if you can. The story is clever, fun and sexy. The hero is all that and a HUGE bag of cherries. Yum, yum! Wish I could get a genie like Ben. Both characters are believable, well drawn and fun, fun, fun, just like their predicaments. Great reading!

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Summary: "I Dream" Of A Man Like That!
Review: Maddie Winston's life is such a mess! Her fiancé, Trevor Edwards, has just eloped with a French wine heiress, making Maddie look like the social laughing stock of New York...no, the world! On top of that someone is trying to sabotage the family computer chip manufacturing business. Hoping to take her mind off the crises in her life, Maggie visits her grandmother Sylvia in the Florida Keys. A little sun and sand is the perfect thing to take her mind of her troubles for a little while. What Maddie doesn't plan on is finding a floating bottle with a genie inside. Frightened by her first vision of the genie, Maddie throws the bottle back into ocean. To her surprise, the bottle continues to find it's way back to her, even when she returns to New York. Curious she rubs the bottle again and POOF!!...Out comes the sexiest man she ever laid eyes on. And his only purpose in life is grant every desire Maddie has...this could be interesting...

Prince Abban ben-Abdullah has been a captive of the floating bottle for a thousand years. Cursed to do the bidding of master after master, "Ben" is more than pleased to find that the beautiful, buxom Maddie is his new master. Granting her every need and every desire is now all the more pleasurable. The only problem is containing this animal passion he's held inside for so long and that Maddie seems to bring out of him every time she's around.

I really enjoyed "I Dream Of You" and encourage romance fans to read it. Already a fan of Judi McCoy's work ("You're The One"), I expected nothing less that perfection with "I Dream Of You" and that's exactly what I got. Maddie is a real woman (no stick figure here), with real problems (cheating fiancé, work troubles) who just needs to find a good man to make her every dream come true. For too long Maddie has had to live up to Trevor's image of the perfect woman...size two and perfect...everything that Maddie is not. She's cut her hair, went on diets and changed her look to satisfy a man who didn't love or respect her. With Ben, she can be herself and be loved for it. And Ben is the perfect man. His passion and his love for Maddie are so true that he doesn't want a thinner, blonder, sexier woman. He has everything he needs in Maddie. The "realism" of Maddie is one of the things that attracted me most to "I Dream Of You". Sure, the sex scenes are great and the storyline is awesome, but the appeal to me lies in the fact that an intelligent, average, size 14 woman can still hook a gorgeous man. It gives us normal girls around the world hope.

Bravo once again to Judi McCoy. Keep 'em coming!

Gennie Bailey-Rogers