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Tonya Plank

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I really did enjoy this book....it was Great! Had a great time with Rory & Sasha...had a few cries...but all in all the adventure with them was awesome! Great job Tonya!
 
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Dawn2016 | 3 andra recensioner | Jan 29, 2016 |
SYNOPSIS :

Rory’s once promising ballet career was destroyed by family tragedy and illness. She turned her life around and became a lawyer. Now at the start of her legal career, she lacks passion in her work and self-confidence in her abilities. But when she meets gorgeous, mysterious Russian ballroom dancer, Sasha, at a firm holiday party, her passions for life and dance are immediately re-kindled.

Since being torn from his Siberian family as a child, Sasha’s life ambition has been to be world ballroom champion, a path he was destined for until his former partner pulled the plug on their partnership. She went on to win the world title, leaving him, without a partner equal in ability, forever in second place. The instant he lays eyes on Rory, he recognizes the depth of her passion and talent, and falls hard for her in more ways than one.

But she also reminds him of great pain from his past. He must not only overcome his own demons but convince her to leave her demanding law career, and all that she has worked for in her adult life, to train with him full-time in order for their partnership – both on and off the dance floor – to work.

MY THOUGHTS:

This book opens Rory watching a two professional Latin ballroom dance partners perform while at a party being thrown by law firm her boyfriend, James, works for. The description the author gives of the dance is perfection. It's sexy, vivid, worded beautifully, and I could see the performance play in my head. I have never read anything described so beautifully. The book continues to both impress me, and hold my interest, until about 35% percent the into the book. Then it is just dance class, after dance class,after dance class. It reads like an instruction manual for dancing. I don't need to know the details to every class Rory attends. I don't need to know where her arms and feet are placed every second of every practice dance. This became repetitive, and (I am sorry) obnoxious. I could rip out out groups of pages from this book and a new reader would lose nothing of importance to the story. I almost didn't review this because it sickens me to give a book that gave me one of the most beautiful things I have ever read, 2 stars. I wish I could rip this in half and give it two separate ratings. 5 amazing stars for the beginning, 1 star for the rest. This needs to be majorly trimmed down. Oh, the author thanks her editor in the dedication. Huh?!? This was edited? It was definitely proofread, but edited? No! Maybe it needs an deleter. Is there such a profession? If there isn't, there needs to be. There is just too many filler scenes in this book. That being said, this is a book with no story. In my opinion, only about 150 pages of what I read had any substance to them at all, and that's being generous. This is 416 pages long! The story went nowhere, AND IT'S A CLIFFHANGER! What we are hanging on for, I have no idea. This is all I know: Girl loved ballet when younger. Girl's family stops her from dancing. Girl becomes lawyer. Girl falls in instant love with man she saw dance. Girl is not a good lawyer. Girl goes to dance class, dance class, etc.. Girl's boyfriend is a cheating douchebag. Dance class, dance class. Girl moves out. Dance class, dance class. Blah blah blah blah blllaaahhh blah blah.

On to the character development. Rory's character, in the beginning, was very well thought out. I liked her. Then, when she should be blossoming, the author focuses on dance moves and lets the character development to go to crap. I do know she can't get her hips, or posture perfect during dancing. The author informed me of this over, and over, and over.

This is supposed to be romance. Romance? Where? There is a bizarre, obsessive, school girl like crush, but no romance. Not even a steamy feel-up. When I think of Latin ballroom dancing, I expect sexy and erotic. I have read children's books with more romantic development than this book has.

If parts of this book omitted, it would greatly improve the story.

I recommend the beginning of this book, but not the the rest.

Oops, forgot ths part:

I won this in a giveaway contest.
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JLynFox | 3 andra recensioner | Aug 21, 2015 |
Note : This review has been published in my blog - Book and Ink

Highly driven Lawyer protagonists are something I'm quite bored of these days thanks to an overdrive of John Grisham books during my school days. I signed up for this book for it's unconventional story line. Lawyers and ballroom dancing – that should be interesting. The book surely was interesting.

Written from Rory's perspective, the story is about Rory juggling her career as lawyer and rekindling her passion for dancing after dancing with the mysterious Siberian dancer Sasha in her boyfriend's party. What follows is Rory's story of how she moves on after breakup, handles her first probono case and ends up rekindling her passion for dancing.

The story developed gradually thereby making is a rather normal paced romance. More than half of the romance between Sasha and Rory is actually in Rory's head though towards the end, things got 'real'. In fact the story moved on in such a pace towards the end that the cliff hanger ending left me high and dry. I badly wanted to get hold of the next book. The writer's knowledge in law and dancing is evident from the detailed description of both dancing and law.

The characterization isn't exhaustive overall as this is the first book in the series. The writer choose to elaborate only on Rory's character. I felt Sasha's character lacked the depth that was much needed. Given that there are two more books in the series, I hope the writer talks more about Sasha and his background. The writer gave an exhaustive account of Rory's character, but I felt she could have been bit stronger. Some parts of the story were predictable while the ending was smack unpredictable.

MY SAY: An interesting read. Hope the next book is way better.

RATING:

PLOT: 7/10

CHARACTERISATION: 7/10

NARRATION: 7/10

BOREDOM QUOTIENT : 3/10 (lower the better)

OVERALL RATING: 7/1o
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bookandink | 3 andra recensioner | Aug 19, 2015 |
Rory is an attorney and Sasha is her love interest. I'm not really a ballroom dance person but I enjoyed this story. It was easy on my mind's eye, seeing the very sensual and sexy dancing. Ms. Plank's details were spot on. I got to see Rory mate, into the woman's she'd always wanted to be, as she left the safety net of her life and danced into her dreams of a lifetime.

It's a fun read, full of colorful characters that left me wanting to move on to book two.
 
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AReneeHunt | 3 andra recensioner | Aug 15, 2015 |

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