Dream Warriors 1: Gareth

If you met the lover from your dreams in the daylight hours, would you still feel the same?

Gareth must save the girl from the clutches of the incubus. It is vital that she return to her job, continuing research into a specific scientific discovery. She cannot. She is completely drained. Meagan Addison has been unable to sleep properly for the last three weeks because she is terrified that the cruel spirit will return via her dreams. The incubus is a mythological creature of the dream-state who feeds on the sexual energy of his victims. Virgins are easy prey and their sexual energy is more concentrated, which means Meagan is a prime target. Now she thinks that she is losing her sanity. She is frightened, tired and sure that no one will believe her story that she is being attacked in her sleep. If not for the huge purple bruises on her torso and thighs, she probably wouldn’t believe it herself.

Gareth enjoys his duties as a dream warrior. He is known as “the Lover” and is usually sent by Morpheus to distract women on their path to the afterlife through his erotic acts. Meagan’s case is an unusual challenge. Gareth can only visit her in her sleep state if she allows it. She is not only terrified of falling asleep but also denies his existence. To Meagan he is just another demon, trying to deceive her with his forthright sexuality and drop-dead good looks.

Ancient Greek Gods and mythological creatures still exist in Cyndi Friberg’s erotic fantasy world. The dream warriors are all gorgeous, well-formed young males. They receive their tasks from Morpheus himself, in the Great Hall of Morpheus, serving the gods with their nightly visits to the humans. Cyndi Friberg’s eroticism starts in the slumbering mind, a great place for any fantasy to begin. Her dream warriors are quite skilled and their bedroom antics are fairly explicit. Meagan is a typical 20th century woman of the world, caught up in a place that just cannot exist. Her scientific mind has no explanation for the events that are happening in her life… and the only decent man that she has ever met is in her imagination! Gareth’s handsome comrades are also built up to have interesting story lines, leading this reader to hope that Cyndi Friberg continues to take her readers back to this vision of an ancient time and place.

Reviewed by: Naomi