Samantha Kane

This was a time-slip book between current day and the 1870's. Dani Sango inherits her father's home after his death. Here starts her adventure in her father's past of art forgery and the book becomes quite intriguing. It takes place at St. Augustine, Florida and takes you back in time with lots of drama you won't want to miss.
This book is a page turner that grasps you and you will definitely not be able to put this book down. The author does a good job of incorporating the two time frames. A line that touched me was "Oh sweet heavenly Father, thank You! You do have plan!" Which exemplified to me the Christian themes throughout the book. That God is in control. And that faith is an important part of life.

I recommend this book and I am sure others will enjoy it as well.

I received a complimentary copy of this book from Barbour Publishing and was not required to give a positive review.… (altro)

The Courage To Love was originally published by Ellora’s Cave but like many authors Samantha Kane had to find a new publisher or become and indie author. The new publisher is SK Publishing and I am thinking the SK stands for Samantha Kane and if this theory is actually fact then I am really excited about her indie author status. I wish I could say I am looking forward to reading the newer edition of her story but I am currently thinking that my reading of The Courage To Love was a onetime deal.

Rape is a serious thing in any time period even if the burden of proof still continues to fall on the victim, female or male. Which brings me to my biggest issue in this story, Kate was not violently raped but she was raped all the same and by multiply men. Now I realize that everyone copes differently to trauma but I just don’t see the relationship between these three developing as smoothly as it did in this story. To make the story more believable there should been more than just social issues because Kate had been a mistress. I know people who have been raped and molested and they have all had hangs of some sort when it came to sex but Kate behaves like she was never raped. The only time you had any inkling to Kate’s trauma was when she came face to face with her attackers, but by the next chapter it was like nothing happened.

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There was a nice mixture of story line and sex so the book was more than written porn but again not very realistic given what Kate had been through before the men decided to claim her. But I will give the author credit for the hot steaminess of the bedroom scenes that she wrote, they were cold shower worthy.

Over all the story has potential but needs to be thought out more by the author especial in the area of the rape and bedroom jokes. Sorry, the joke about the goats was not even remotely funny. The other issue I had was Jason’s mother, the way she was brought into the story made her seem like more of an afterthought, like she was just something to put in to increase the word count of the story.

This review posting contains the body of the review, which is only a portion of the original review which was originally posted here http://lauralusbookreviews.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-courage-to-love-brothers-in-...… (altro)