| Title | : | Duped! |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | |
| ISBN | : | - |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | 184 |
| Publication | : | First published February 23, 2011 |
Duped! Reviews
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Aside from the usual (grammar & punctuation) here's the breakdown:
1) Abrupt changes in point of view, some purposeful and some obviously accidental.
2) The inclusion of a highly supernatural element (ghost) that seemed superfluous.
3) Everyone acts thrilled about the fact that Jamilla is a twin that was given up for adoption, including the guy who uses her as a replacement for her dead sister.
4) Jamilla seems to enjoy replacing her dead sister, right down to wanting to have sex with the sister's former lover in all the same ways. (Ew.) She only mentions the awkwardness once in passing, and it feels contrived. A moment later, she's asking Tony more sex questions about her sister so she can try the same things.
5) The sex scenes were ridiculous. The vocabulary was clunky and silly. Also, no guy notices that your bracelet matches your necklace while you're stripping! You're getting NAKED, sweetie; that's ALL he sees.
The only saving grace is Letta Storm. She is the only likeable character. Still, we hardly get to know her.
Ah, well. At least it was a funny read. I wouldn't purchase another book by this author, but should another come up as a freebie I'd definitely give her a second chance, particularly if it was another story featuring Letta Storm. -
Duped by Dee Dawning introduces Maximilian E. Randle III and his estranged wife Jeannette. Three years of marriage and six months of being separated, Jeanette does the unthinkable and hires a private investigator. Max is a man of many talents which consist of bigamy and conning women. After Jeanette finds out the details of her husband’s so call business trips, she contacts Jamilla Turner who has been married to Max for four months. At this point my curiosity is peaked.
Duped does not come highly recommended. The writing is overshadowed with more than enough sex scenes, which takes away from the struggling plot. Characters are introduced one after the other and never get fully developed. The novel starts off about betrayal, then transitions to supernatural and lastly romance. I was thrilled and ready to read about Max’s character as a bigamist, but that was short lived. There was no real interaction between him and Jamilla, the heroine. The storyline changes when the hero, Antonio Castanza, also known as Tony is presented. Tony dated Jamilla’s deceased twin sister, Shana, in college whom she never met. At this point I was mystified and the story continues downhill. I can understand Jamilla wanting to know more about her sister but to question her sexual preference was a shocker.
Two scenes in particular and the constant reference of the departed sister became too much to bear. Scene one, Jamilla models a nightgown she assumed Tony gave to her; but when he stated it was purchased eight years ago for Shana, the nightgown vanishes from her body. Scene two, Jamilla wants to mimic and experience the same pleasures Tony did with her sister; “I want to see what it’s like to be tied up and helpless in your four post bed, like you used to do with my sister.” One character I enjoyed was Letta Storm, Jamilla’s lawyer; who is every bit of a storm. Letta is a strong, direct, no nonsense, and prying individual that brings a different element to the story.
Although Duped is not receiving high rankings, I am not discrediting the author’s skills and would consider reading other work by Dee Dawning.
-Reviewed by LaMona -
Another let down. I wasn't really sure what was going on here except for the part where the two wives find out that they are married to a con artist who uses his looks and sexual prowess to strip women of their clothes and money. Then the story takes another turn and Jamilla one of the wives meets a guy who ends up being the boyfriend of the dead twin sister she never knew she had and ends up falling in love with him. Here is the kicker, the dead sister was the one playing cupid!
For a short book there was too much going on. She should have stuck to one idea and ran with that, or have written a full length novel -
Crappy plot stringing together laughable sex scenes with a couple of good moments.
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This was a sweet little love story with several twists. The twists made it interesting especially since one of them had a paranormal aspect involving a twin sister. But I’m sure if you are into HEA’s you will enjoy this story as much as I did.
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Dee Dawning's Duped is some what of an acquired taste. Her Character's are great but the over all plot is a little swanky. I'm sorry but it just seemed like she had so many idea's and threw it into one book when she could have easily made it into a series. Honestly, The main characters dead twin sister brings her together with her love? Honestly? I know men think about sex 24/7 but in reality what man would get turned on by a woman saying do me like you did my sister? Its kind of creepy. But like in other reviews the main character that makes the book worth page turning is (drum roll) Letta Storm, a very kick ass lawyer but maybe too much into the sex life of her clients.She is by far the best character I've read in one of these erotica books.(FYI I don't read a lot of them.) Its almost enough to read the book just for her, Tony being mouth watering has something to do with as well. This book wont get five stars from me but it should still be read, if you can take the roller coaster plots and the sometimes not so professional writing of Dawning who is milking with creativity. But her grammar is not one point, (Everyone has a moment) But when you switch from having your main character tell the story to saying 'she' in the same sentence something is off sorry Dawning.
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This is a Letta Storm novella and a free download. I picked it up because it was free, but it was entertaining enough to get me to download a couple of other Dee Dawning reads. I thought the plot was interesting and I liked the main character, Jamilla. The plot went on a tangent a bit when I would have preferred her to just meet Tony without any paranormal craziness.
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Terrible sex scenes, seriously twisted plot, and the way Jamilla kept asking what her sister did was very peculiar. It also didn't seem like Tony and Jamilla had real chemistry, kind of like both of them were trying to recreate what Tony and Shana had together. The only bright light in the novel was Letta Storm, which is why I have it 2 stars insteaD of one.
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This book was out of control. It was kind of creepy that the heroine's sister was mentioned the whole time. I didn't know if the hero loved her or her sister. I just didn't like this book at all. This is not worth buying at all. -
This is the second book in the Letta Storm series.
I felt like the story arc was totally unnecessary. It did not add to the overall storyline for me and in fact made portions of the story kind of weird. -
nice short read...
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A little more blunt sex than I am use to, but Letta Storm's character made it so I couldn't put the book down.
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Don't waste your time and money on this one. I find this book to be totally unrealistic.
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At first when they went back and forth between a few characters I got upset but then I got to a point that it came together and I couldn't put the book down!! I had it done in just over a day!
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What'd you expect.
