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Stay and Read, February 11, 2010
This review is from: Stay (Volume 2) (Paperback)
In Book Two of the Tales of Dunham series, Moriah Jovan confirms that she intends to stay just enough out of genre to confuse everyone. Having read both books, I would call them either (Insert your qualifier here)-Romance Novels or Mormon Bodice Rippers.
The good news for a manly man like me is that the book has enough value-added depth to make it eminently readable. In fact, within the first hundred pages, the book was promoted from an "on the bus" read to an "at home" read.
While "Stay" includes the original wrecking crew from "The Proviso", the baton has been passed to a new generation. The Karate chopping, high-financing, power-brokering sextet of Book One are much more like Olympians this time around, looking down on the mere mortals slugging it out on the Trojan plane with the occasional god-like poke or wink to give assistance to favored combatants. The central characters are two spiritual orphans, adopted by the ubiquitous Knox Hilliard who despite his fire-breathing reputation, acts much more like a mentor or Dutch Uncle this time around.
This is a perfect Book Two of a series. The pyrotechnics of the first book have been replaced with a more intimate conflict. While the personalities are still heroic, they are fighting with one hand tied behind their backs, because they each are slugging it out harder with their own selves than any outside enemy.
The domestic shift of this book is made clear when the patron saint of Book One, Ayn Rand, is replaced with Laura Ingalls Wilder. It is an elegant move. The internal personal debates and struggles become more powerful than the battles waging around them. Yet ultimately, despite the noise, the political, media and familial wars, this book is about healing.
The even better news is that seven pages out, I did not know how it would end and could not wait to find out.
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A read many women will relate to, February 9, 2010
This review is from: Stay (Volume 2) (Paperback)
The idea that you can't have it makes it ever so sweeter. "Stay" is the story of Vanessa, and her long lusting dream of Eric. Once simply a teenage crush, a decade and a half did nothing to quell it as Vanessa meets Eric once more when they are both adults. But there may be no long awaited happy ending, as Eric remains unattainable. "Stay" is a fine read of a woman's pursuit of romance and life, a read many women will relate to.
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Contemporary romance with a hint of suspense, December 6, 2009
This review is from: Stay (Volume 2) (Paperback)
I learned of Moriah Jovan via DearAuthor's Jane Litte and then read some of her comments on that site and so I followed her to her site.
The excerpt of
The Proviso (Tales of Dunham) seemed a bit brutal to me, but when I read the "Stay" excerpt (both are available on her site and quite long), I liked it enough to try out this new-to-me author.
I bought it as an ebook on her site, have just finished it (meaty length of 850 pages on my Sony PRS505 when I have the font setting at 12 pt, lovely character interaction, she really shows that relationships take longer than a week to make people be in love and work out, just the right amount of erotic tension for me and an interesting introduction to political views I don't share - Republican, Libertarian - without getting my back up), so now I trust her enough to think that "The Proviso" probably also will work for me
*is off to buy the ebook* I hope she sells well enough it'll be profitable to go on with the series.
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