Dream Man by Kayt Miller-a review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date July 22, 2022

Colette Munsel is a thirty-something freelance editor who lives alone, well, not alone if you consider a cantankerous feline named Henry Miller a roommate. She certainly talks to him like he’s human, not to mention he’s her main source of entertainment.

That is until Sam Griffin moves in next door. Sam seems to embody every hero she’s ever read about in the romance novels she edits. He’s tall, dark, handsome, and built like a brick––you get the idea. It’s too bad Colette has zero skills when it comes to meeting the opposite sex. Less than zero. Maybe the reason she’s had difficulty finding love is because she prefers eating cake over exercising and enjoys reading over going out on the town which means meeting her new neighbor is never going to happen.

Things change when Henry Miller wanders into Sam’s kitchen, forcing Colette to sneak in to retrieve him. Too bad she didn’t change out of her salsa stained “#1 Cat Mom” tee. Luckily Sam finds her tee amusing and the redhead intriguing, especially her curves.

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REVIEW:DREAM MAN by Kayt Miller is a stand alone, contemporary, adult, romance story line focusing on thirty-three year old, owner of Gladstone Construction Sam Griffin, and thirty-two year old, freelance editor Colette Munsel.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Colette and Sam) DREAM MAN follows the building romance and relationship between thirty-three year old, owner of a construction company Sam Griffin, and thirty-two year old, freelance editor Colette Munsel. Colette Munsel rents the other half of the duplex where construction worker Sam Griffin is temporarily living but a series of little disasters brings Sam in and out of Colette’s life such that Colette is torn into thinking there is something between them then something not. Time spent together brings our couple closer together but then a family crisis pulls Colette out of Sam’s life, and into a spiral where she is losing control. When Sam’s past threatens our hero’s hold on his self-control, Colette finds herself wondering where everything went wrong. What ensues is the building romance and relationship between Sam and Colette, and the potential fall-out as their individual pasts continues to control their current lives.

The relationship between Sam and Colette begins as neighbors, neighbors who lust after another from the very start but Colette quickly notices that Sam will disappears for days at a time, and Colette’s family is often too involved in our heroine’s life. Sam takes his time seducing the woman with whom he will fall in love but quickly realizes that sometimes family is more than everyone can handle. Between Sam and Colette there is a definite lack of communication, something that adds to their already fragile relationship. The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

DREAM MAN has a large ensemble cast of secondary and supporting characters including Colette’s parents and four sisters; Sam’s parents and his siblings, as well as Colette’s cat Henry Miller. Here’s hoping the author has plans for our couple’s siblings.

DREAM MAN is a story of family (sometimes dysfunctional), relationships, friendships, and love. The fast paced premise is engaging and entertaining but in the beginning tried too hard to be funny-it felt awkward and bumbling. If Dream Man is meant to be a romantic comedy aka rom-com, for me it missed the mark as very few authors have a true ability to write with humor and snark. The frenetic energy between Colette, her siblings and their mother was often over the top; the sisters’ behavior towards one another, most especially towards Colette, screamed immaturity and rivalry. The characters are animated, energetic and charismatic; the slow building romance is flirtatious.

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Reviewed by Sandy