The Dream Hunter is Kenyon’s first formal introduction to the Dream-Hunters (also known as the Oneroi and the Skoti) within the world of the Dark-Hunters. Although we have met and heard of them in a few short-stories and full-length Dark-Hunter books. I can’t say that they’re my favorite thing about this series though. I don’t hate them, I just don’t find them particularly interesting at all.
So right off the bat I wasn’t too interested in this book, but I also went into it with an open mind. However, it still isn’t a very strong representation of the Dark-Hunter series. I’ve always found Kenyon to be very good at building relationships within a short span of time. But with Arik and Megeara/Geary I didn’t really ever feel that spark between them. It could have to do with the fact that we never really witnessed their first encounters within the dream realm, we were only told about them. But even so I didn’t really feel the connection between them. It seemed to me that Arik came to the human realm for one purpose — to get laid — and even so I didn’t feel an emotional or physical attraction between them.
In addition to that, I felt like the humor was really lacking in this and the last book. I miss the sarcastic and witty tidbits we typically get in these books so I hope Kenyon brings some of that back soon.
But some good did come from this book. We meet a few new faces such as Kat/Katra and Zebulon/ZT, both of whom I found to be really interesting characters who I hope to come across in future books. We also get a glimpse of some Ash action going on that sets this book as taking place before/around the same time as the first few books (Kyrian and Zarek’s books) in the series.
Although those were very small things in this book it was interesting nonetheless and cool to see some other parts of the Dark-Hunter universe having to do with the gods and goddesses we hear so much about.
Overall this definitely wasn’t my favorite book in the series, probably just about my least favorite, but it wasn’t terrible and I’m happy to have learned a little more about Ash and met a few more interesting characters. I’m just counting down the books until I can finally read Ash’s book — and no I’m not cheating and skipping ahead. 
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