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Gail Dayton

Gail Dayton

I'm a book-addicted writer of fantasy, romance and historical fiction--averaging close to one book read every day. It will be tough to keep up with myself on this place--and since I live at the beach, ALL my books are beach books!

I read close to one book a day--last year, I read 274 books, according to my personal reading log. That... more »
  • Gulf Coast, TX, USA
  • member since July 27 2007

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  • Temptation and Surrender: A Cynster Novel (Cynster)
    • Rated 3 stars

    “I tend to enjoy Laurens, but I also tend to skip her love scenes. So my enjoyment of the book is a ratio of how many love scenes I have to skip and how frequently they come. If I don’t skip the love scenes, or I only skip one or two, then I like it a lot. If I skip most of them, and there are a lot of them, then... This one fell in the middle. I skipped most of them, but there weren’t that many, and overall, I enjoyed the book. The heroine and her younger siblings have all run off from a moderately evil uncle (he only used them as servants without pay, and clothed them reasonably well) to find the legendary family treasure. But they’re running low on funds, so heroine applies for post of innkeeper/manager. Hero’s family owns the village inn, and it’s such a remote inn, though on a main road, he’s having trouble finding good ones. There’s instant electricity between them, and she resists while he pursues. Usual Laurens story ensues. Suspense subplot involves the family treasure and evil uncle. Standard Laurens fare. If you like her books, you'll like this.”

    Gail Dayton wrote this review Friday, October 2 2009. ( reply | permalink )
  • Tempt Me at Twilight
    • Rated 4 stars

    “Liked this one a lot. Hathaway family story—if, like me, you have trouble remembering who they are, till you get back in the story—the heroine is a younger sister, parents died, brother surprisingly inherited a title, sisters married gypsies in earlier books, and now it’s the 3rd sister’s turn. (One of the sisters was an invalid, if that helps.) So, Heroine wants an “ordinary” life, though her family is considered unconventional, and perhaps a bit less-than-blue-blooded. She’s met a young heir whose father is quite the stickler, so he’s courting her secretly. But then she meets the rich, handsome, unconventional, reclusive owner of the hotel where the family stays during The Season—while chasing after her animal-mad sister’s pet ferret—and her life turns upside down. Basically, the hero manipulates her into marrying him. This has some of the loveliest, most beautimous romantical “this is how I feel about you” announcements that I have ever read: “I have so much love for you I could fill rooms with it. Buildings...” And that’s just the grand finale. This story just Felt Good. Happy story.”

    Gail Dayton wrote this review Thursday, October 1 2009. ( reply | permalink )
  • Always a Scoundrel
    • Rated 4 stars

    “I have now read this book twice. Found it in a bag of books I brought back from RWA conference, and couldn't remember reading it, so I started glancing through it again. And I got hooked. Read the whole thing all over again. Hero has spent his life trying to live down to his father's worst expectations--which were pretty low. He hooked up with a real villain and did all the gambling/whoring/debauchery thing, before dad signed him up for the army and shipped him off to war. Now he's back, his best friends from the army who did wild and crazy things with him are now married, and he's bored. He has nobody to do wild things with, so he goes back to his villainous mentor, and takes up burglarizing houses to annoy Dad, giving away his loot to a church. He stumbles across a plot by this mentor to marry an innocent young woman, and curious--since she seems to be in the same position he is--contrives to meet her. And he's hooked. The hero kept trying not to do nice things, but he just gets dragged deeper and deeper into the complications. I loved this story. It's a true story of redemption. And the villain’s comeuppance was one of the best Evah!”

    Gail Dayton wrote this review Wednesday, September 23 2009. ( reply | permalink )
  • Grave Peril
    • Rated 3 stars

    “Third Harry Dresden book. Ghosts are going postal. And it seems personally directed at Harry. Not just ghosts after him, but vampires and fairy godmothers and-- All sorts of horrible things happen to Harry and those he cares about, but he scrapes by in the end. Not exactly a happy ending, but Harry's still standing, and he caught the thing that was causing the ghost trouble, and his friends are alive and sorta well. My son read the entire series one after another, but I had to take a break after book 3, because Jim Butcher puts poor Harry through such hell. I did like the book”

    Gail Dayton wrote this review Wednesday, September 23 2009. ( reply | permalink )
  • Her Reason To Stay (Harlequin Superromance)
    • Rated 3 stars

    “Heroine is an identical twin who was adopted separately from her sister. She’s looking for family and a fresh start after hitting bottom. Her sister never knew she was adopted, her parents both died recently, she’s rich and thinks the heroine has come for money, totally alienating her. The hero is the sister’s lawyer. He’s a single dad with an awful ex, and wary of getting involved. The heroine had a Really Low bottom she hit (trying to avoid spoilers here), which adds to the complications. But relationships are build, love is found and there’s a happy ending. ”

    Gail Dayton wrote this review Tuesday, September 22 2009. ( reply | permalink )
  • Deadly Redemption (Silhouette Nocturne)
    • Rated 3 stars

    “This was the conclusion to Korbel’s fairy-tale trilogy that began the Nocturne line. The heroine is the bad sister among the faerie queen’s daughters. She connived for the throne, was mean to her sisters, and wound up betraying her people, the “good” fairies—all before the story starts. So her mom has come up with a suitable punishment. She has to marry the prince of the “bad” fairies. They don’t like each other, but the sex is pretty hot. She strikes a blow for women’s rights in her new home kingdom, makes them take a real look at what they’re doing that isn’t working, and helps her home crew recognize the important job the “bad” fairies are doing, defending the realms from even worse universes. Lots of adventure, fun and games, and even a cute kid, while both heroine and hero learn le”

    Gail Dayton wrote this review Tuesday, September 22 2009. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Perfect Wife (Leisure Historical Romance)
    • Rated 4 stars

    “ Heroine has been living the life of a sedate widow. She is a widow—but sedate, she really isn’t. Her daughter has just become engaged to a lovely, respectable young man—and his father has shown an interest in the heroine. Then a treasure map turns up that belonged to the heroine’s late, impoverished husband, and she decides to go to Egypt and find the treasure, now that Napoleon’s been defeated. The hero decides he must go with her to protect her—and rather quickly discovers that she is nothing like the perfect wife she thought he was. A lovely adventure romance with onion layers being uncovered. Lots of fun.”

    Gail Dayton wrote this review Tuesday, September 22 2009. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Single Dad's New-Year Bride
    • Rated 3 stars

    “Heroine is back home in Australia after tragedy involving the death of a child where she was working in London. She’s at a New Year’s party, meets a little boy and his dad—they wind up having a really hot New Year’s kiss—and of course, he turns out to be the new doctor on the pediatric ward where she works as a nurse. His wife has died and the son had leukemia, now in remission. They both have huge issues to work out—the working out is enjoyable, there’s a great resolution—enjoyable read.”

    Gail Dayton wrote this review Tuesday, September 22 2009. ( reply | permalink )
  • Blaze Of Glory (Hqn Romance)
    • Rated 3 stars

    “Hero’s one of Mann’s patented Air Force guys. Heroine is a reservist, a psychologist who works as a police profiler in her dayjob. They had a hot fling during a posting to Iraq, and she broke it off when they returned home. But neither has been able to forget the other, and she’s maneuvered her way onto a posting to check out a situation in Africa, because her father’s involved in the “situation.” He’s a brilliant scientist who also happens to be bi-polar, and he hasn’t called in a while, so she’s worried. And then there’s the issue of the hot hero. Good story. The bad guys are a bit on the bizarre side—but then real life bad guys often are, so...”

    Gail Dayton wrote this review Tuesday, September 22 2009. ( reply | permalink )
  • Fool Moon
    • Rated 3 stars

    “Butcher is really mean to Harry. Beats him up a lot. But it was a good story...”

    Gail Dayton wrote this review Friday, July 31 2009. ( reply | permalink )
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