Giving Chase
Lauren DaneContemporary erotic romance
Available from Samhain Publishing
ISBN: 1-59998-113-0
June 2006
| When Maggie's best friend Liv gives her an involuntary makeover she never expected the reaction she got. The daughter and sister of beauty queens, she was always told that because she wasn't tall and blonde that she was worthless. Her friends have always known that she was a beauty beneath the baggy clothes and big glasses, but her transformation even surprised them. She begins to attract the attention of men, not just the mild mannered librarian that Liv sets her up with, but the unattainable Chase brothers, first Shane, who turned out to be a jerk, then Kyle who is completely different. Secure in her new happiness, she is unexpectedly made the target of a stalker. Popularity isn't all it's cracked up to be.
This is more than just an erotic romance. It also has elements of suspense along with the love scenes. The story is very well written and I refused to put it down once I started. Maggie and her friends and Kyle and his family are such great characters that the reader will feel they know them and the small town of Petal. Janie and the other tall beauties after the Chases are very much the one-dimensional former popular girls found in any small town, and Maggie's mother in particular is a horrible woman. Maggie's father shows promise, and Polly Chase really steals scenes from everyone. Hopefully this is the beginning of a series. The only small criticism I have is that the author uses a little too much contemporary slang, it tends to date the book; some of the slang is already dated in fact, and since I feel that this book deserves to be in print to appeal to a wider audience, I just have to mention this.
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Reviewer: Maura Frankman |
