Are you looking for a dashing new book boyfriend? Indulge in three of them with Books 1 – 3 of Daring Desires. Daring the Neighbor: After daydreaming about him from afar, Sabrina is finally ready to act on her fantasies with her super-sexy neighbor, Ethan. Will one sizzling night be enough, or will it ignite the burning flames of desire she has kept deeply buried for so long? Daring his Passion: … buried for so long?
Daring his Passion: Reed saw Cassie first. He wanted her first. He ached for her first. But his best friend claimed her first. When Reed finally gets the chance for a night of scorching passion in the arms of the woman he loves, will it quench his thirst or leave him yearning for more?
Daring Rescue: Cade owes Becca. She needs him. He’ll save her… no matter what. What happens when the rescuer needs to be rescued? Will Cade and Becca be able to save each other in this suspenseful tale of robbery versus romance?
Fans of Sylvia Day, Ruth Cardello, and Helen Hardt are sure to enjoy reading this steamy contemporary romance series.
Ethan, Reed, and Cade are sexy heroes who are talented at smudging their ladies’ lipstick, not their mascara. Meet them NOW in The Daring Desires Series.
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The Daring Series (Daring Desires #1-3) was a great read by Ann Omasta. This set consists of; Daring the Neighbor, Daring His Passion, and Daring Rescue. Daring the Neighbor follows Sabrina and Ethan. Daring His Passion followed Reed and Cassie. Daring Rescue followed Cade and Becca. I really enjoyed reading these books and can’t wait to read more by Ann Omasta.
Ann Omasta is a master at creating hot love scenes for interesting and complex characters. This book contains 5 of her better ones. You’ll find a hunky next door neighbour, a cheating best friend, a daring rescuer who takes on armed bank robbers, a contract kidnapper and a bike riding sex club owner … and those are just the heroes.
Fair warning, NONE of these stories are PG. The sex is hot, the stories are anything but wholesome family dramas and the characters aren’t the sort that go to church on Sunday, but if you’re looking for steamy romance whose heroes and heroines are likable in spite of their flaws, you’ll probably like this one as much as I did, and with 5 hot couples to choose from, there’s almost sure to be once couple you’ll love.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
Daring the Neighbor
This review should probably be considered as containing spoilers, (consider yourself warned,) but since the plot is so predictable, I’m not really sure if it spoils anything. I HATE cheaters! Have the courage to exit the relationship you’re done with before starting another. Having been the one cheated on, I personally believe there’s a special hell for people who have affairs and those who enable them. At the beginning of the book I really respected Sabrina because even though her marriage wasn’t working any more, she honored her vows enough not to start an affair. That respect went right out the window when she proceeded to have that affair I was so proud she wasn’t having, no matter how much her horrible friend was encouraging her. I appreciated that she chose to take the subsequent relationship with Ethan slower than it started, but it was far too little too late for me.
The characters are cardboard caricatures of the people they’re supposed to be, and the story was almost all “tell” and very little “show”. I think I could see the ghost-image of the mentally and emotionally abusive man the author was trying to make Sabrina’s husband. But, for what we actually saw of their interactions, I’m not sure I can blame him for his reactions considering the affair she was already starting with their neighbor. And I didn’t find her sudden terror of her eventually-to-be-ex-husband at the end of the book to be the least bit believable in light of the way he’d been portrayed up to that point. I loathed her best friend. I’m completely on Mick’s side in his opinion of Carla. (See above for my theory of the special hell for affair enablers.) To the author’s credit, the writing is very well done. I likely wouldn’t be having this reaction to the story if it weren’t so well written.
Daring His Passion
What a bunch of self-absorbed narcissists! There are ways this storyline could have been done that would have had me invested in Cassie, Reed, and even Dirk rather than being disgusted by their actions. As with the previous book, I have serious issues with the relationship boundaries this story crosses. I HATE cheaters! I honestly believe that if you want to start another one, then you need to fully exit the relationship you’re currently in first. To me, Reed came across as a spineless sap who has an unhealthy obsession with a woman he really doesn’t know. He has zero ability to stand up for himself. It really bugged me that he could just abandon the company he’s a founding partner of without a single care or concern. Cassie wasn’t much better, she might even have been worse. Not only does she apparently not have the ability to think for herself, she’s manipulative too. Dirk may have been a thoroughly vile human being, but at least he displayed some backbone. It might be because of the length of the story, but the characters felt very flat. I thought Reed forgave Cassie far too easily. And I was utterly incensed by his line ‘I suddenly realized that I had been completely selfish in my reaction to this situation. I had failed to think about it all from her perspective.’ Excuse me?! He’s worried that he hurt the feelings of the woman who lied to, manipulated, and seduced him? Nope. Not happening in my universe. I also would have killed for a little bit more detail about what happened to bring about the epilogue. It’s a very sweet ending, but there’s a whole lot of water under that bridge that I needed to know more about. I’ve read books from further on in the series and I mostly enjoyed them. Other than the author’s skill with the English language, I’m having difficulties reconciling that these are part of the same series.
Daring Rescue
It’s cute and fun and not the least bit believable. I was able to suspend my disbelief for long enough to finish the book, but it was a near thing on several occasions. Other than the complete implausibility of it, the thing that frustrated me the most were the time gaps in the story. There were several places where the plot would jump forward beyond a pivotal event and then we’d witness that event in a flashback. I found it quite irritating when I spent several chapters going “Wait! What did I just miss?” Then going back to re-read a chapter to try and figure it out where I got lost, only to give up and finally find out what had happened a chapter or so later. I almost hate to admit it, but after the previous two books, I think my favorite part of this one was that no existing relationships were violated during it.