Giving Chase (The Chase Brothers, Book 1)

by Lauren Dane

Paperback, 2006

Status

Available

Call number

813.6

Publication

Samhain Publishing (2006), Paperback, 204 pages

Description

Erotic Literature. Fiction. Romance. Suspense. HTML: Together they find a special love�??can it survive the threat stalking her? Some small towns grow really good looking men! This is the case with the four Chase brothers. The home grown hotties are on the wishlist 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 fiancée 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. Despite Maggie's happiness and growing love with 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. Warning: Warning, this title contains the following: explicit sex, graphic language, and some violent situatio… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member blingtastic

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

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LibraryThing member jjmachshev

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.

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LibraryThing member itsamekatrina

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!

LibraryThing member CLDunn

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.

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LibraryThing member tmommy4

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.

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LibraryThing member Nikk1s

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.

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LibraryThing member guiltypleasures

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.

LibraryThing member MsRomanticReads

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.

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LibraryThing member miyurose

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.

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LibraryThing member cranberrytarts

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.

LibraryThing member Narshkite

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.)

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LibraryThing member grapeapril75

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!

LibraryThing member msralways

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.

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LibraryThing member jjmcgaffey

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.

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