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    Giving Chase
    Giving Chase
    Giving Chase
    Audiobook6 hours

    Giving Chase

    Written by Lauren Dane

    Narrated by Aletha George

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Some small towns grow really good-looking men! This is the case with the four Chase brothers. The homegrown hotties are on the wish list of every single woman in town, and Maggie Wright is no exception. Maggie has finally had it with the men she's been dating, but a spilled plate of chili cheese fries drops Shane Chase right into her lap. The sheriff is hot stuff but was burned by a former fiancee and is quite happy to play the field. After Shane's skittishness sends him out the door, Maggie realizes that Kyle Chase has had his eye on her from the start. Now that Shane has messed up, Kyle has no intention of letting anything stop him from wooing her right into his bed. Now, despite Maggie's happiness and growing love for Kyle, a dark shadow threatens everything-she's got a stalker and he's not happy at all. In the end, Maggie will need her wits, strength, and the love of her man to get her out alive.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMay 20, 2013
    ISBN9781452683768
    Giving Chase
    Author

    Lauren Dane

    Lauren Dane is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of over fifty novels and novellas across several genres. She lives in the Northwest with her patient husband and three wild children. Visit Lauren on the web at www.laurendane.com E-mail laurendane@laurendane.com Twitter: @laurendane You can write to her at: PO BOX 45175, Seattle, WA 98145

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    3.5/5

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    • 5/5
      I have found a new favorite author. Maggie and Kyle are just plain adorable. Now let's get the 3 brothers hitched. I can't wait to hear their stories.
    • 4/5
      4.25 Stars for me!

      My rating range of this story... 3.75 - 4.5
      If significant, why?

      Main Character Ratings...
      H = 7/10
      h = 7/10

      NOTE: SPOILER BELOW!
      Was cheating involved? No
      Any major triggers to be aware of? Yes
      Physical Assault, Stalking, Mental Abuse, Obsessively abusive ex, attempted rape

      Scenes with heat... Yes
      What point does it start? 50%
      How much of the story? 25%
      Anything beyond M/F? No
      If yes, explained

      Heat Rating... 7/10
      Clean or Fade to Black - 1 or 2
      Normal to Descriptive 3-5
      Detailed Descriptive Sex - 6-7
      Um, Wow, Beyond Descriptive Sex - 8 or above

      Was there so much sex or unrealistic sex that you rolled your eyes and/or skipped forward? No

      The back story... The h grew up in a mentally abusive household and has very low self esteem. Her friend gets her to go out, dressed to impress and she meets the first guy... who ends up being a bit psycho.

      The Romance... Definitely a bit of instalust but to OTT. The MCs build a relationship over a couple of months.

      The drama explosion... Bad guy does a bad thing.
      Did it feel real or contrived? Neither but a bit OTT!
      Separation involved? Not really
      Was it resolved properly or rushed? Resolved properly.

      Final Notes... Very good story and, if the H was a bit less perfect and the h had a bit more backbone, it would have been a 5 star read for me.


      HEA or HFN? HEA
    • 3/5
      This was Kyle and Maggie's story. While story line was good in this first Chase Brothers book, I couldn't get past the snorting. Seriously, every person in this book snorted over and over and it distracted me from the story. I've read books for over 40 years and none of the characters snorted. Because of that I marked down my rating and I am not sure I will read the rest of the series because of that.
    • 3/5
      Pretty good. The relationships are complicated - not just between the protagonists, either. There's a lot of solid, complex secondary characters here - the villain, the families, and the ones that are going to have their own books soon. There's a lot going on - Maggie takes up with one Chase brother and then with another (when the first one abruptly and stupidly (as he agrees, later) drops her), another "boyfriend" turns out to be a stalker...her family has been attacking her for years, emotional abuse... She's very convinced of her unworthiness, which doesn't quite get boring. There's enough changing up that it's not too terrible. The sex is a little more explicit than I like, but not terrible - though the usual trope of lust at first glance does play a major part. There are some editing oddities - mostly words that...I don't think they mean what the author meant them to mean. I generally paused, tried to figure out what it meant, then accepted it in context - but another time I might go look some of them up and see if I can figure out what the author meant to put there. It's not fantastic - way too much emphasis on looks, despite portraying Maggie's beauty-obsessed mother as a minor villain - but mildly enjoyable. I plan to read the rest of the series, as well.
    • 3/5
      Surprisingly, I didn't like this book as much as her other ones. The writing felt really a mature and nothing compared to her Brown Siblings series, the relationship between Kyle and Maggie felt forced and things were all over the place until they finally go out on a date. The story was cute, but a little in the too cute side for me; the sex scenes were okay, which I thought strange since her other books make us sizzle. All in all, good enough story for me to not give up on the rest of the series.
    • 4/5
      Oh man I love a hot brothers series!! I am all in!! Maggie and Kyle are an awesome couple!! Plenty of story here and only a bit of steam. But Steam enough to keep a girl happy!
    • 3/5
      Very possibly the single most predictable romance ever. Filled with cliches and charcters that could have sprung whole from the imagination of any 14 year old girl. All that said, it offered a few hours of amusment. If you are a fan of contemporary romance with alpha men and strong women in peril it makes for a nice beach read (or in my case a laying on the recliner on the back deck read.)
    • 4/5
      Re-read 12/16/12: I love Kyle and Maggie. I decided to read it again after I read Alone Time. Such a sweet romance.

      Original note 3/23/09: Great book. Really liked the development of the relationship. I thought the stalker plot would be cheesy, but it worked better than expected.
    • 4/5
      I read my first Lauren Dane novel, Once and Again, a few months ago, and was introduced to the charming little community of Petal, Georgia. A lot of the minor characters in that novel were members of the Chase family, so I thought I would give the actual Chase family series a try.As a romance, I thought this was solid. It checks off all of the right boxes – instant attraction (or at least chemistry), a character (usually the woman) who doesn’t feel worthy of the other, inner conflict, and in this case, some outside conflict. And, a fair amount of sex. Somewhat explicit sex, in this case. I don’t think it rises to the level of erotica, but it’s more explicit than your run-of-the-mill Harlequin, for example.Overall, this was exactly what I was looking for – a quick, satisfying read, even if the Chase brothers are unrealistically sappy at times. I liked the whole damn (perfect) Chase family, so I’ll be continuing this series.
    • 2/5
      I can't give this the same high ratings as most other reviewers. The writing wasn't great. I felt little to no connection to the characters. Maggie is so bogged down by her superficial and cruel mother and sister, and by the betrayal of a college love (seriously? get over it already!) Major self esteem issues lead her to believe that she can't possibly attract one of the four very handsome Chase brothers. I mean, her mother and sister practically tag team her in public about how inferior she is. They were so over the top pathetic. Oh the drama. This didn't read like a story about adults with adult problems. This read like a script for a bad high school movie like She's All That meets Pretty In Pink meets Cinderella.

      "I've been crazy about you. I've gone out with a dozen women since then to try and push you out of mind and it hasn't worked." - Which woman wants to hear that? Hardly flattering.

      When a jealous ex (they went on three dates) calls her a slut and a whore, Maggie latches onto that and she brings it up repeatedly resulting in boring repetition. What a drag!

      I don't know whether to laugh or cry that the bad guy is a panty snatching pervert.


      If there were buttons saying "Read It" or "Skip It" - I'd have to go with the latter.
    • 5/5
      I LOVED this book and all 4 brothers are hot!!!! It's labeled contemporary but it is pretty steamy, maybe not full out erotic, but darn close. Can't wait to start Taking Chase tonight.
    • 3/5
      The premise of the story seems like it may have been taken from a more popular author from the same publisher. This is the first in a series about four handsome strong charming brothers (can you say Rough Rider's Mckay brothers) and the firey, sexually inexperienced, large breasted, small waisted, petite women who reign in their wild libidos and tame their hearts. A little danger/mystery is thrown in to try and distinguish this series from RR but the writer has taken on more than she can deliver here. Character and plot develpment are more than a little wimpy, and the grammar and editing on the e-book version I got was horrible.
    • 3/5
      I really like the plot of the story, I did find Maggie to be a bit manic with the constant flip flopping of her personality. One mintue she is shy and lacking confidence and like flipping a light switch she is a strong mouthy in your face woman. Ms. Dane had great talent with the development of her plots, but she seems to get stuck between adult and young adult writing. While her stories are geared for an adult audience her writing flucuates between sounding like adults are talking and young adults are talking. One review noted the excessive "snorting" done by the characters, and while I did find the use of the action higher than in any other book i have read, it was the "nicknames" that started to make me crazy. There were far too many "hons', "sugs", "sugar", "baby", "babe" and darlings for me. I found myself thinking that Ms. Dane could not decide if she wanted the characters to be old fashion down home southern or modern down home southern. The book did keep me engaged and was an easy light read.
    • 3/5
      This was Kyle and Maggie's story. While story line was good in this first Chase Brothers book, I couldn't get past the snorting. Seriously, every person in this book snorted over and over and it distracted me from the story. I've read books for over 40 years and none of the characters snorted. Because of that I marked down my rating and I am not sure I will read the rest of the series because of that.
    • 2/5
      Awful!!! Very soapy & just plain stupid. I could only stomach 1/2 the book. So immature. Whatever you do, don't spend any money on this one!
    • 2/5
      wanted to start reading a good series; but couldn't finish the book; storyline and dialogue was sooo cheesy. will not ready any more from author
    • 5/5
      I read the e-version of this book and have re-read it a couple of times. The story has humor, hot men, and hot sex!Maggie is a good-hearted, kinda shy schoolteacher. She also just dumped her latest no-good boyfriend. She does come out of her shell a bit when sexy Sheriff Shane Chase bumps into her, causing her to spill her chili cheese fries all over herself...and then tries to blame HER for it! She lets him have it, right there in the town's hottest bar. One of her best friends decides to cheer her up with a makeover. Whoa...what happened to the mousy schoolteacher? Now she's being pursued by not one, but two Chase brothers...and one fatal-attraction-type wacko!Love the Chase brothers (I want one!) and loved this story.