Sweet Nightmares: A Dance with Danger and Desire in the Wicked Mirrors Series

• Author: Hazel St. Lewis
• Release Date: September 17, 2025
• Genre: Fantasy, Dark Romance
• My Rating:
• ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/5
• 🌶️🌶️/5

💋I absolutely loved Sweet Nightmares, a play on Hades and Megara, a duo I feel we don’t get much about.  To be honest the only reference I have is from Disney’s Hercules, 🤭 but could you imaging those two together 😏 The world building, magic system and supernatural aspects are so well done you feel you are in that world with a sense of needing to go back.

Spoilers Ahead

🩰We meet Jane Whitefield, the Prima Ballerina that came from nothing in the dressing room reapplying her makeup because of her abusive husband. Never in her wildest dreams did she think she would marry a man THREE DECADES older than her. Reading about what Jane went through broke my heart, I had to clutch my invisible pearls.

I was so happy when he got what was coming to him. Her husband was awful, made me sick. So reading what happened, yes graphic but loved it. 

She inhaled sharply, tasting her husband on her tongue. She had never enjoyed tasting him, but tonight was the exception.

Not only does he abuse her, he lets his debtors use HIS OWN WIFE any way they see fit. And when one of her husband’s enemies comes to collect his debts, her world is turned upside down when she is forced to make a bargain with the Mirror God, Nightmare.

When she was around no else existed. She was beautiful, unique, and the most tempting thing he’d ever seen.

And he couldn’t reconcile it.

Because he also hated her and everything about her.

She was a curse.

🪞Who doesn’t love a morally grey MMC? We all know I do 🙊 and Nightmare is taking the cake. He is literally the definition of only sweet to her, touch her and you will become unalived, will burn the whole world for her. Sure he is a terror, ancient cruel God who only wants what’s best for him, but ahh why do I love it?

“I will burn the world down to get you back, little witch!”

Favorite Scenes 

Scenes

“I absorbed her.” Jane jumped back and tried to get to her feet, but she couldn’t get away. Horror licked at her bones. She’s just consumed a soul.

She was a monster.

“Calm down.” Nightmare was on his feet quickly, and he pulled her into a tight embrace, cocooning her body. “You didn’t consume her. You untethered her. You released he soul.”

“I ate it”

I don’t know why this scene made me laugh. I just picture Jane on her knees staring at her hands like what the fuck just happened. I find it funny 

“You wanted to show me that you are an abhorrent mess without my presence?” He let out a low chuckle. “I already knew that.”

“No, not that.” Jane placed her hands on her hips “And I am not that messy.

He raised an eyebrow, as if to say, “Have you met yourself?”

Same with this one, makes me smile. I’m a messy person and this would definitely be a conversation hubby and I would have

Favorite Quotes

She hated damsels in distress and Prince Charmings fighting great beasts to save them. But, most importantly, Jane hated happy endings. They didn’t exist-no price was coming to save her, and none ever would. Because princes were day dreams, and Jane lived in the real world.

Jane was, and she was tried, but everything felt normal. Because she wasn’t special, she never had been, and she never would be.

And on their first night aboard the Titan, they killed a man who deserved no name

And as much as she wanted to stay, she couldn’t. Her time was up, and her foresight was proved to be correct. She was destined to die a horrific and early death.

I wanted her to stay so badly, stay with Nightmare don’t leave. I knew something bad was gonna happen when I read this. AND THE ENDING WTF?!?! I have my thoughts about who unalived Jane. Just why that’s all I have to say

Wicked Mirrors Series

• Gilded Wicked Mirrors
• Sweet Nightmares

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