I truly enjoyed this author's first trilogy, which was also her debut, and didn't hesitate to buy this book which is the first book in her new series. I really liked the story and both the hero and heroine..... until the end of the book, not to give away any spoilers but, the herione acts like a complete idiot at one point and I just wanted to reach into the book and slap her. Alas, she realizes her mistake and rectifies it. Other than that one bout of stupidity in the book I will be buying the next one that comes out next month.

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I just read a really heavy book so I needed a little fun so I revisited Tessa Dare's One Dance with a Duke, the first in the Stud Club series. First off let me say that I read a lot of historical romances I like them they are my guilty pleasure. But some are better than others and Tessa Dare is one of the best. I had never read any of her books until I saw this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4DzoNkomQ0. It is the book trailer for this series and it made me laugh out loud and I went out and got all 3 books.

I hope you watched the trailer because I won't be going into the synopsis of the book. Her characters are engaging, the plots have a mystery to be solved, the love scenes are HOT and not gratuitous. Just let me say that I give this book a 5 star read, and Tessa Dare is an auto buy for me.

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I too really enjoyed this book as a first in the series. The others to follow have a lot of promise based on this one. I liked the characters and how they each developed and were able to change for the better. I did have the same reaction as the other review towards the end of the book in wanting to reach in and slap the lady for being stupid over and over again but she did come around! A good book. Enjoy.

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Superior to most things I've read by TD, with the exception of Surrender of a Siren. It doesn't really come close to that kind of brilliance, and it's a tad wallpapery, but I greatly enjoyed it. The writing is witty and engaging, and what it lacks in unique setting & storyline, it compensates well for by being just an all-around enjoyable read.
I gave it an A-.
Sensuality Rating: R

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I didn't care for the plot; it seemed disjointed and I wish a couple of the subplots hadn't existed. But the characters? They were awesome. I'd read a book where Tessa Dare stuck them all in a room and made them talk for 400 pages, and I'd like it.

It was worth the read and was enough to convince me to read the next books in the trilogy. It didn't convince me to keep it.

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Something just didn't quite work for me in this book. It was fairly well written, well paced, steamy love scenes...but I kept wanting to hurry the story along. Waiting for something interesting to happen, waiting to care about the characters. I do think I will read others from this series because I don't have a great complaint about this book, but it just wasn't very strong. I felt impatient with the story and the characters.

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Third book I read by this author, most annoying secondary characters. I wanted to kill off some of the other members of this "Stud Club" of shared horse ownership, and the families of the hero and heroine (what was left of them). Can't say much for the subplots, but the family loyalty versus spouse loyalty plot was okay. Rather than super-villains, this book just had a bunch of whiny and hot-tempered secondary characters. Any of them could be villainous, at the drop of a hat, because you want to hate them and have them transported, executed, or die in a fatal shootout.

The hero and heroine, these two I mostly liked. The heroine is an atypical slightly bustier, more wall-flowerish heroine, who enjoys plotting menus and embroidery, not social reform activism. In that respect, she seems like a more believable period character. The hero is the opposite, with a weird contrived background story and unpredictable anti-social tendencies. They worked together, in a weird way balancing each other out. Would like to see more of them in a sequel, but not at the risk of needing to read more about the Stud Club.

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Lately I've become a little bored and a hard sell where romances are concerned. But I loved this one. It's top notch for what it is... alight, fun read with a simple premise and lovable characters.

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