Book Review: Daring the Neighbor by Ann Omasta

Daring Desires Book 1

Get naughty with the neighbor in this sizzling romance serial!

Sipping chilled white wine with her best friend and spying on her super sexy neighbor, Ethan, are the highlights of Sabrina's otherwise mundane existence. Vivid fantasies about Ethan are her sweet escape.

At what point does a platonic relationship cross the line? Is flirtation okay? What about an accidental brush of the hand? Is an intentional caress down an arm with the back of one's fingers going too far?

As she pushes the boundaries of propriety, Sabrina begins to wonder about a real-life night of passion in Ethan's arms. Would it quench the growing thirst within her or ignite the burning flames of desire that she has kept deeply buried for so long?

Find out now by indulging in Daring the Neighbor.

Fans of Sylvia Day, Helen Hardt, and Meredith Wild are sure to enjoy reading this steamy contemporary romance series.

DARING DESIRES: 1. Daring the Neighbor 2. Daring his Passion 3. Daring Rescue 4. Daring her Captor 5. Daring the Judge

These sexy heroes smudge lipstick, never mascara. Meet them now!

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My Review:

This review should probably be considered as containing spoilers, (consider yourself warned,) but since the plot is so predictable, I’m not really sure if it spoils anything. I HATE cheaters! Have the courage to exit the relationship you’re done with before starting another. Having been the one cheated on, I personally believe there’s a special hell for people who have affairs and those who enable them. At the beginning of the book I really respected Sabrina because even though her marriage wasn’t working any more, she honored her vows enough not to start an affair. That respect went right out the window when she proceeded to have that affair I was so proud she wasn’t having, no matter how much her horrible friend was encouraging her. I appreciated that she chose to take the subsequent relationship with Ethan slower than it started, but it was far too little too late for me. The characters are cardboard caricatures of the people they’re supposed to be, and the story was almost all “tell” and very little “show”. I think I could see the ghost-image of the mentally and emotionally abusive man the author was trying to make Sabrina’s husband. But, for what we actually saw of their interactions, I’m not sure I can blame him for his reactions considering the affair she was already starting with their neighbor. And I didn’t find her sudden terror of her eventually-to-be-ex-husband at the end of the book to be the least bit believable in light of the way he’d been portrayed up to that point. I loathed her best friend. I’m completely on Mick’s side in his opinion of Carla. (See above for my theory of the special hell for affair enablers.) To the author’s credit, the writing is very well done. I likely wouldn’t be having this reaction to the story if it weren’t so well written.