Satisfaction

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Summary: Much Better than last 2
Review: Her last 3 new books have been awful. She finally has gotten back into the groove. As good as Sinful Secrets and Seductive.

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Summary: Waste of Money!
Review: I made the mistake of buying this book thinking it would be better than the last one. It's not. I love well written erotic romance ala Robin Schone or Emma Holly authors who don't feel the need to have the male lead denegrate and humilitate the female throughout the book. Nor is using the four letter "c" word to describe her on almost every other page. Yes, there's a lot of graphic sex but but I lost interest very quickly.

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Summary: Waste of Money!
Review: I made the mistake of buying this book thinking it would be better than the last one. It's not. I love well written erotic romance ala Robin Schone or Emma Holly authors who don't feel the need to have the male lead denegrate and humilitate the female throughout the book. Nor is using the four letter "c" word to describe her on almost every other page. Yes, there's a lot of graphic sex but but I lost interest very quickly.

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Summary: Much Better than last 2
Review: In 1894 Behramstead, England, Jancie Renbrook seeks vengeance for her father, deserted years earlier by his diamond mining partner Hugo Gailliard in South Africa. While the Gaillairds lived the life of wealth, her family survived on a government job pittance. After years of bedtime stories of revenge, Jancie arrives at Waybury House as a companion to Hugo's dying wife Olivia. She plans to cause a rift between Hugo and his son Lujan by flirting outrageously with the father and seducing the younger.

Lujan comes home to care for his beloved mother in her last days. He detests his father especially with his sexual predatory advances towards Jancie while his wife lies dying nearby. He wonders what game Jancie is playing though he finds he wants her. To her chagrin, she falls in love with the instrument of her revenge. With the sins of their sires in the way, anything between them beyond the death of his mother seems unachievable, but love has a way of accomplishing the impossible.

Erotic romance readers will find SATISFACTION with this exciting historical tale in which the betrayal by a rolling stone adventurer leads to demons suffered by their respective offspring. The story line is exciting though Hugo and Edmund show no redeeming qualities. Jancie and Lujan are a wonderful pairing in and out of bed and his brother adds a fine rivalry for the heroine's affection. A late sidebar intrigue not involving vengeance provides further doubts between the lovers, but that seem unnecessary as their sires have done a wonderful job of that already. When it comes to sex in the Victorian Age, few writers provide as divine a story as this author does.

Harriet Klausner

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Summary: sex in the Victorian Age
Review: In 1894 Behramstead, England, Jancie Renbrook seeks vengeance for her father, deserted years earlier by his diamond mining partner Hugo Gailliard in South Africa. While the Gaillairds lived the life of wealth, her family survived on a government job pittance. After years of bedtime stories of revenge, Jancie arrives at Waybury House as a companion to Hugo's dying wife Olivia. She plans to cause a rift between Hugo and his son Lujan by flirting outrageously with the father and seducing the younger.

Lujan comes home to care for his beloved mother in her last days. He detests his father especially with his sexual predatory advances towards Jancie while his wife lies dying nearby. He wonders what game Jancie is playing though he finds he wants her. To her chagrin, she falls in love with the instrument of her revenge. With the sins of their sires in the way, anything between them beyond the death of his mother seems unachievable, but love has a way of accomplishing the impossible.

Erotic romance readers will find SATISFACTION with this exciting historical tale in which the betrayal by a rolling stone adventurer leads to demons suffered by their respective offspring. The story line is exciting though Hugo and Edmund show no redeeming qualities. Jancie and Lujan are a wonderful pairing in and out of bed and his brother adds a fine rivalry for the heroine's affection. A late sidebar intrigue not involving vengeance provides further doubts between the lovers, but that seem unnecessary as their sires have done a wonderful job of that already. When it comes to sex in the Victorian Age, few writers provide as divine a story as this author does.

Harriet Klausner

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Summary: unsatisfying
Review: The author failed to build any anticipation. The first kiss is not even identified. I don't mind good sex in a book. This was too much. I got bored with it and ended up skimming pages of sex just to get to the story which wasn't all that intriguing. I have no desire to ever read this author's work again

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Summary: Thea Divine Does it Again
Review: Thea Devine writes the kind of erotic historical romances that steam the glasses, fog the windows, and cause people to go looking for someone to practice what they may have learned. Satisfaction is firmly in that class of books. Unlike other recent outings from Devine, this book has a firm plot which stands up to and is more than a good skeleton for the sex scenes. The characters are well drawn, if not overly complex. None of them are people you'd think about after putting the book down, but Devine doesn't generally write that kind of book anyway.
Read other reviews for the story details. Let it suffice to say that the conflicts are well plotted, with supporting villans and helpers who fit right in. The language is a bit rough for those who don't like a lot of basic Anglo-Saxon nouns and verbs. Otherwise it seems true to its period and flows convincingly.
Divine's writing is improving with time and practice. She is learning how to draw her characters more vividly, and make her dialog sound real and convincing. Her work is improving by leaps in this novel, and I suggest that you visit her website to see what else she has written, www.theadevine.com.
Would I buy this? Yes. Would I keep it? No. Not memorable enough to keep but certainly entertaining enough to read. And stimulating.
Have a good time with this one evening.

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Summary: Where is the romance?
Review: This was the first book I had read by Thea Devine. The plot had some potential but I could have cared less about the characters, accept for the younger brother, he has future possibilities. All the other characters were either annoying, cruel, and/or obsessive. I got tired of reading about how Janice wanted revenge, revenge, revenge. As the heroine I thought that she was a bit dull witted and wanted to scream at her, "help yourself twit"! It is hard to think of this as a romance novel when there seemed to be no feeling from Lujan toward his wife, Janice, who he repeatedly degrades by calling her wifec*nt, vessel and receptical. Too often he refers to her as just "the companion". Also, I continually found myself looking back to see if I had skipped a page because things seemed to suddenly occur or have happened without the reader knowing anything about it. I.E. a year's worth of playful seduction is skipped over and then casually mentioned in a later scene. I seemed as if the author got tired or the editor said, "leave out all this extra stuff". Forgive me but I found this book in the Romance section of my bookstore, where was the romance? Plenty of sex, no romance.

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Summary: Dis satisfied
Review: What have USA Today bestselling author's become? This is the first book I have read by this author and it will be the last. If this is called romance I fail to understand the word. Labelled as "A Novel of Erotic Romance" in very small print it left me wondering. The marathon sex scenes described were those between Lujan and his wife(poor thing) I would describe the writing as filth with no substance at all. I too skimmed the pages trying to find the story - do you suppose I missed something? If you want to read steamy seduction scenes well written read Stephanie Laurens' books. Any of her stories of the Cynsters or the Bastion Club will turn you into a new fan.