Tessa Dare
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Tessa Dare is a bestselling American author of historical romance novels. Her books comprise multiple series, including: Castles Ever After, Spindle Cove, The stud Club Trilogy and The Wanton Dairymaid Trilogy. Her writing has won numerous accolades, most notably, the 2012 RITA award for best vis mere Regency Romance for A Night to Surrender. vis mindre
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Værker af Tessa Dare
When a Scot Ties the Knot Bonus Epilogue 6 eksemplarer
Uma Chance para o Amor (Em Portugues do Brasil) 3 eksemplarer
Uma aposta irresistível (Em Português do Brasil) 2 eksemplarer
Duque da meia-noite (Portuguese Edition) 1 eksemplar
Era Uma Vez Uma Noite de Inverno 1 eksemplar
The Perks of Seducing a Wallflower 1 eksemplar
Lady a mezzanotte 1 eksemplar
Dolce rifugio 1 eksemplar
Una scommessa deliziosa 1 eksemplar
La perfetta istitutrice 1 eksemplar
Un matrimonio d'affari 1 eksemplar
The “Manfatuation” 1 eksemplar
Meet Me in Mayfair 1 eksemplar
Once Upon a Winter's Eve - Tessa Dare 1 eksemplar
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- Fødselsdato
- 11-09
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Bopæl
- California, USA
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- AAR Annual Reader Poll (Best Debut Author, 2010)
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Female Sexual Agency as a plot point (French novels / Wanton Dairymaid) i Regency Romance (april 2021)
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- Værker
- 54
- Also by
- 1
- Medlemmer
- 10,827
- Popularitet
- #2,193
- Vurdering
- 3.8
- Anmeldelser
- 714
- ISBN
- 244
- Sprog
- 7
- Udvalgt
- 26
- Om
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- Trædesten
- 107
In this book Minerva Highwood is modeled after Mary Anning, a female palentologist, but she is far less interesting to read about. Minerva can't tell the difference between a consensual make-out session and rape. She is denser than the rocks she studies, and also has the stupidest plans. She runs out in the middle of the night to tell Colin not to marry her sister... could this not have waited till morning? When it would be more socially acceptable? She can't lie to save her life. Literally. If she had just lied once or twice in the novel, their journey to Scotland would've been a lot smoother.
But if you liked this character, then you would be so disappointed to know that she is completly different about halfway through. After her first orgasm, Minerva is suddenly capable of play-acting as a French mistress, giving blowjobs like she was born to do it, and her desire to be known as the person who discovered dinosaurs evaporates when Colin wins her wrinkled fruit at a country fair.
While I understood that Minerva needed to learn that knowledge wasn't everything and that a plaster footprint wasn't more important than a human life and lifelong love, the fact that she literally walks away from her dreams made it very disappointing. This book proved definitively that women cannot have it all, and while that can be true, it's not fun to read about in a romance novel.
There's some good dialogue and layering of the characters' personalities and trauma, but they are only just enough to save this book from being a total waste of time.… (mere)