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Summary: FARFETCHED, BUT ENTERTAINING
Review: ALL I DESIRE brings a possible, yet unbelievable story to life. It's shrouded in mystery and unfolds slowy to come into a shattering focus. Old loves are not what they seem. Something sinister is going on. Who can one trust. The heroine, a virginal Francesca, takes on the role of her recently-deceased friend, Samara, an exotic dancer who made men swoon at her feet. But this deception brings Francesca confinement, humiliation, and betrayal. This book shows less erotic adventures than usual for Ms. Devine, a master of the erotic. It isn't her best work, yet I couldn't put it down until I saw how it ended. As always, this author's style twists and turns can't be anticipated.
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Summary: FARFETCHED, BUT ENTERTAINING
Review: ALL I DESIRE brings a possible, yet unbelievable story to life. It's shrouded in mystery and unfolds slowy to come into a shattering focus. Old loves are not what they seem. Something sinister is going on. Who can one trust. The heroine, a virginal Francesca, takes on the role of her recently-deceased friend, Samara, an exotic dancer who made men swoon at her feet. But this deception brings Francesca confinement, humiliation, and betrayal. This book shows less erotic adventures than usual for Ms. Devine, a master of the erotic. It isn't her best work, yet I couldn't put it down until I saw how it ended. As always, this author's style twists and turns can't be anticipated.
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Summary: Disapointed
Review: As i have recently discovered Thea Devine in the book Captivated. This book left me hanging and a little confused about what happened. The romantic scenes were not what i expected in the theme of erotica and left me haning. But i will persist and try more books by Ms.Devine
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Summary: Disapointed
Review: As i have recently discovered Thea Devine in the book Captivated. This book left me hanging and a little confused about what happened. The romantic scenes were not what i expected in the theme of erotica and left me haning. But i will persist and try more books by Ms.Devine
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Summary: Simply horrible!
Review: Each time I thought this book couldn't get worse -- it did! The plot was implausible from the beginning, the hero and heroine never really fall in love (can you believe it!). The prose is so ridiculous that I couldn't decide whether to laugh or just be embarrased for the author. If one more character "seized up" with desire I thought I would throw the book out. Secondary characters are having raunchy sex even before the main characters. Motivations of characters are withheld from the reader so that we feel no sympathy for them. If you believe a virgin could really impersonate Europe's greatest exotic dancer and courtesan, well, you might enjoy this book. But I doubt it.
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Summary: What a waste of money!
Review: I actually bought this book after reading the bad reviews. I thought that maybe the reviewers were judging too harshly...they weren't. If I could give this book zero stars I would, but I guess I'll have to settle for giving it a very low one star. I finished this book in just a few hours, not because it was so engrossing, but because the story was horrible and I could skip several pages, and not miss anything. This was no where near a sensual romance. It was just stupid. What happend miss Devine?
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Summary: Simply horrible!
Review: I bought this book after reading several reviews of Thea Devine's other books. The sensuality came through, as promised, but I was disappointed by the complete lack of emotional connection between the two main characters. Love is never mentioned in this book; every encounter of the hero and heroine is driven by lust only. I don't consider the main character a hero; he is a complete control-freak who would rather die than admit to any mistake. The heroine is door mat material who never stands up for herself. At the conclusion of the story, the characters seem to stay together only due to their mutual passion for each other. Also, the whole plot is based on finding some mysterious "papers" which don't seem to have anything at all to do with the rest of the story. The conclusion is so far out of left field, I still don't know what was going on. I suggest you pass on this one unless you are a BIG Thea Devine fan.
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Summary: Pass on this one
Review: I bought this book after reading several reviews of Thea Devine's other books. The sensuality came through, as promised, but I was disappointed by the complete lack of emotional connection between the two main characters. Love is never mentioned in this book; every encounter of the hero and heroine is driven by lust only. I don't consider the main character a hero; he is a complete control-freak who would rather die than admit to any mistake. The heroine is door mat material who never stands up for herself. At the conclusion of the story, the characters seem to stay together only due to their mutual passion for each other. Also, the whole plot is based on finding some mysterious "papers" which don't seem to have anything at all to do with the rest of the story. The conclusion is so far out of left field, I still don't know what was going on. I suggest you pass on this one unless you are a BIG Thea Devine fan.
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Summary: dissapointed
Review: i have read a couple of books from thea devine i thought they were good not excellent but good however this book was really bad, no plot, hated the most of the characters i thought it was a ridiculous.
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Summary: Bad
Review: I read Thea Devine's Harlequin Temptation, "Night Moves." It was very good book. So, when I saw "All I Desire" at the library I decided to give it a try. One of the main characters, Reay, was a very weak character impersonating and exotic dancer to protect her cousin. Reay's aunts and favorite cousin were trying to impregnant women to start a new nation. He would perform this one by one in succession. Did they have Viagra in the 1800s? Secondly, there were some mysterious papers that were being searched for, but, Devine never explained what the papers were and their purpose.This book had the potential, in the beginning, to end with a great romance. But the ending was a flop. I will not allow this book to deter me from reading another one of her books.
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