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All I Desire

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Unfortunately,to my dismay, both 'All I Desire' and 'Dangerous Man' (the better of the two) are practically identical to Roger's previous bestseller 'Sweet Savage Love'. While there is little 'true' romance in any of these novels, you will find adventure, intrique, cloak and dagger, and of course, Roger's love of the southwest terrain and the including of Hispanics and Native American in the history of the west.

But the novels are too similar - if you'e read 'Sweet Savage Love', you would conclude that both male characters from a 'Dangerous Man' and 'All I Desire' could be very close relatives to Steve Morgan. Personality, attitude, appearance, and of course their lackluster opinion of love and romance. But one can see that Roger's has reshaped her more recent male characters into a 1990s appealing hero, compassionate, considerate, and even loyal at times - while her first dangerous character - Mr. Steven Morgan was rude, violent, extremely dangerous and in plain english, a 'whoremonger', whom was a candidate for AIDS or the venereal diseases common in the 1860s.

In comparising characters, the female characters did not have the zeal or spunk that Jenny Brandon possessed. While I disagreed with Jenny's permiscuous nature, I admired her ability to 'survive' in any situation, and she had many 'issues' to deal with. I find that Roger's must have a favorite novel and 'Sweet Savage Love' is her favorite. Well, Rogers, of all your novels, yes that is my favorite also, however, penning the same cliche's, circumstances, situations, and plots continually and changing character names is 'getting old' and boring. Let Jenny and Steve rest in peace and not found reincarnated in upcoming novels! There will never be another 'Sweet Savage Love'.

I just got this book and read it in one night. It did remind me of Sweet Savage Love and Dangerous Man, but just because it has some of the same excitement. Jake and Angie are great together,and I love the facts about the west. I felt like I was there with them. So please, Ms Rogers, keep writing!

This book took my breath away. I was hooked from the first page. I thought the hero so sexy. The plot was intriguing without being too complicated for me to enjoy, like some I've read. I love westerns, and will look for all of this writer's books now. She knows how to take a stay at home mom away from kids and dishes to a world of romance!

If you like no plot, lots of incidents, and flat characters, then you might like this book. Otherwise go read Sweet Savage Love by Ms. Rogers and not this clone which is lackluster.

In 1870, Angela Lindsay leaves France for New Mexico in order to see her father for the first time in almost two decades. When she reaches New Orleans, she is heartbroken to learn that he recently died. Angela inherits his large ranch as long as she resides on it for one year. Even though he tried to talk her out of the remainder of the dangerous trek, a reluctant friend of her father, Jake Braden, escorts Angela and her mother across Texas towards her ranch.

Jake is working undercover for the Army trying to ferret out the identity of the gunrunners selling weapons to the Apaches. Along the trek west, the pair begins to fall in love However, neither one can feel safe because someone covets her new property and that individual will do anything, including abductions and murder, to insure he obtains his desires.

With a publishing history of ten popular historical and three contemporaries on her resume, readers might think that Rosemary Rogers would become complacent. Instead, the New York Times best selling author may have written her best novel to date because she tones down her trademark graphic violence and paints a beautiful western romance starring two personable and intriguing characters.

Harriet Klausner

I very rarely stop in the middle of a book, but this one was just too painful and boring to keep going. Need I say more?

After years of being a faithful Rogers fan, I am finally going to call it quits. It's hard to believe that Ms. Rogers wrote this book. The characters were flat in this one. The plot meandered everywhere. It was just another cliche-riddled trail ride. I can't recommend it. Better to go back and read the Steve and Ginny stories which are still wonderful to read!

Unfortunately, to my dismay, both 'All I Desire' and 'Dangerous Man' (the better of the two) are practically identical to Roger's previous bestseller 'Sweet Savage Love'. While there is little 'true' romance in any of these novels, you will find adventure, intrique, cloak and dagger, and of course, Roger's love of the southwest terrain and the including of Hispanics and Native American in the history of the west. But the novels are too similar - if you'e read 'Sweet Savage Love', you would conclude that both male characters from a 'Dangerous Man' and 'All I Desire' could be very close relatives to Steve Morgan. Personality, attitude, appearance, and of course their lackluster opinion of love and romance. But one can see that Roger's has reshaped her more recent male characters into a 1990s appealing hero, compassionate, considerate, and even loyal at times - while her first dangerous character - Mr. Steven Morgan was rude, violent, extremely dangerous and in plain english, a 'whoremonger', whom was a candidate for AIDS or the venereal diseases common in the 1860s.

In comparising characters, the female characters did not have the zeal or spunk that Jenny Brandon possessed. While I disagreed with Jenny's permiscuous nature, I admired her ability to 'survive' in any situation, and she had many 'issues' to deal with. I find that Roger's must have a favorite novel and 'Sweet Savage Love' is her favorite. Well, Rogers, of all your novels, yes that is my favorite also, however, penning the same cliche's, circumstances, situations, and plots continually and changing character names is 'getting old' and boring. Let Jenny and Steve rest in peace and not found reincarnated in upcoming novels! There will never be another 'Sweet Savage Love'.

ANOTHER EXCELLENT NOVEL! I LOVED IT, GREAT STORY AND PLAYERS, IN THIS NOVEL!
E X C E L L E N T!
ELLIE MILLING

but there was nothing romantic in this book! The hero was poorly conceived, the heroine a spoiled brat who took pains to prove it. And obviously got it from her Mother. What makes a romance is that one will live anywhere as long as it's with the other. Not Mom! A little dust in her lemonaide and she high-tails it back to France. And wasn't it convenient that while the hero is half indian (scandalous!)he's not of the same tribe that keeps attacking them? I only managed to got half way through the book before I had to find out if it even ended happily. When I read how he felt so bad about her being raped by the indians, but at least he got to kill one of them, I threw the book in the trash.