I've been writing as long as I can remember and all of my stories always held a thread of romance (even when I was writing about a prince who could shoot lasers out of his eyes). I love creating unique characters, love giving them happy endings and I even love the voices in my head. There's no other job I would rather be doing. In September 2002, when I got the call that Silhouette Desire wanted to buy my first book, Desert Warrior, it was a dream come true. I hope to continue living the dream until I keel over of old age on my keyboard.
I was born in Fiji and raised in New Zealand. I also spent three years living and working in Japan, during which time I took the chance to travel around Asia. I’m back in New Zealand now, but I’m always plotting new trips. If you’d like to see some of my travel snapshots, have a look at the Travel Diary page (updated every month).
So far, I've worked as a lawyer, a librarian, a candy factory general hand, a bank temp and an English teacher and not necessarily in that order. Some might call that inconsistency but I call it grist for the writer's mill.
Tentation charnelle (Beat of Temptation) J’ai adoré cette nouvelle qui met en valeur Tamsyn et Nathan qui me semblait effacé dans le tome 1. On connaîtra le début de leur relation et tous les épreuves qu’ils ont vécu pour que Nathan se décide de faire Tamsyn comme sa “mienne”!
Irrespective attirance (Stroke of Enticement) Ça allait vite pour ce couple pis je trouvais qu’il manquait un peu de jus pour tenir mon attention. Ce couple ne méritait pas leur nouvelle, je trouve! C’était boff comme je m’attendais à mieux.
I loved seeing Nate and Tamsyn as a young couple. Not gonna lie, this one made me cry. Nate was such a hard headed jerk at times, too blinded by his perception of what Tamsyn needed to let her tell him what she needed and wanted. But they worked it out in the end.
Tammy and Nate What I loved about Nalini Singh's writing is how easily she can have me slipped into the heroine's body to feel her frustrations and needs. I guess that speaks on how captivating her words are. This is the story of how Tammy tried to get Nate to finally claim her as his mate. Nate, stubborn dominant, thought she needed a few years to enjoy life. I wish this were longer, though the storyline and pace is perfect already and a few chapters might make it otherwise. To add that maybe a chapter of her pregnancy be added, since I read the other books in the series and I loved it.
I din't think I will love Tamsyn's story so much but I did. Nate was an idiot and I would have made him suffer more for his stupidity, but Tam is very forgiving.
Nate a toujours considéré Tamsyn comme une personne spéciale pour lui. Mais tout change lorsqu’un jour, ils comprennent qu’ils sont unis par le biais du lien nuptiale. Nate la trouve bien trop jeune pour finir enchaîné avec quelqu’un, la repousse. Cela va durer quelques temps, jusqu’à ce qu’elle décide de tout faire pour lui montrer que leur lien est fait pour durer et que l’âge n’a rien à voir.
Chronologiquement, ce tome se situe bien avant Esclaves des sens, le premier tome de cette série.
Tentation charnelle est centré sur les personnage de Tamsyn et de Nate, personnage que j’aime beaucoup. Du coup, je voulais absolument le découvrir.
J’ai apprécié le personnage de Tamsyn, dans le premier tome, et je dois dire qu’après la lecture de ce tome, je l’apprécie encore plus. Et j’ai découvert Nate, et je comprend maintenant que l’amour qui les unis est vraiment fort et sincère.
Bien que les Psi soient pas tellement présent dans ce tome, j’ai encore découvert des choses sur le projet « Silence ». Ce qui me donne encore envie de découvrir la suite, de cette série, qui je crois commence à devenir l’une de mes préférées.
Ha sido una novela mágica, corta y intensa. No pude evitar llorar en el bus al acabarla. Al haber leído ya 5 libros de la saga y conocer a estos personajes, se me hizo imposible no amarlos desde el principio. Me paso lo mismo que con el libro de Dorian (Presa del Placer), tenia muchas esperanza en el libro y no me a defraudado.
La autora a sido capa de meter en 80 páginas muchísimas emociones. He llegado a comprender a los dos protagonista sobre cómo querían llevar su relación, y no he podido odiar a ninguno en ningún momento.
De verdad lo recomiendo, es una novela muy especial.
Recuerdo que entre los protagonistas usan entre ellos términos de posesión ( Como "El es mío" "Ella es mía").
Listened to audio narrated by Angela Dawe. Nate is an idiot finding his mate Tamsyn is only fifteen. He wants to give her time but when Tamsyn turns 19 she's done waiting. Nalini draws you into her stories, her characters have a realism that makes for an excellent read.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
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Since Goodreads in its infinite wisdom (/s) has tagged the newsletter compilation as not a book I'm adding them here because the page numbers more or less add up (newsletter stories has more pages) so it will go towards my yearly total. This also has a super cute cover!
Reviews for stories can be found in their individual listings.
The short stories read:
0.6 Seedlings (and epilogue to Beat of Temptation) - 4 stars 1.1 The Cannibal Princess - 3.5 stars 4.1 A Conversation - 4 stars 5.6 A Gift for Kit - 4 stars 5.7 Movie Night - 4 stars 7.1 Christmas in the Kitchen - 5 stars 9.1 Wolf School - 3.5 stars 9.2 Clean and Dirty - 3.5 stars 9.6 Home - 4 stars 10.1 Wild Night - 4 stars 10.2 Naya’s Most Important Visitors - 4 stars 10.3 Grocery Shopping - 4 stars 10.4 Stalking Hawke - 4 stars 10.6 Pancakes - 3.5 stars 11.6 Dancing with Cooper - 4 stars 11.7 Poker Night - 4 stars 11.8 Making Dinner - 5 stars 11.9 Sunday Morning - 4 stars 12.6 Hide and Seek - 5 stars 12.7 New Year's Kisses - 3.5 stars 13.1 Kaleb and Sahara’s Meeting with Sascha and Lucas - 4 stars 13.2 Housewarming at the Orchard - 5 stars 14.1 Romancing Drew - 3.5 stars 14.2 The Song of the Wolf - 5 stars 15.1 Rowan - 5 stars 15.2 Baubles and Ben - 5 stars 15.3 A Perfect Moment - 4.5 stars
16.1 Beary Tiny Ghosts - 4 stars (not listed on GR) Adorable bear gangster content with Dima as a tiny addition. Just can't have too much StoneWater or too much Dima!
16.2 Ain’t no party like a bear party - 4.5 stars (not listed on GR) Silver and Valentin get to have their mating ceremony and the Bears take over Moscow in order to celebrate. It was always going to be wild! :D
18.1 Wolf Heart - 4 stars (not listed on GR) Toby spends some time with his new baby cousin, Heath and Hawke shows up to be a wonderful alpha who understands all of his pack, even the non-changelings!
19.5 Wildcat Blues Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3 - 4 stars 19.6 Mate - 4 stars 20.1 Music in the Rain - 5 stars
Et ce n'est pas peu dire pour moi qui ne suis pas adepte de ce format qui souvent donne des récits bâclés et incomplets.
Ici, la nouvelle ne met pas en place les personnages et leur rencontre. Tant mieux. On rentre rapidement dans le vif de la romance et j'ai trouvé que ça enlevait beaucoup de défauts à la nouvelle (comme de rencontrer l'héroïne et de tomber amoureux d'elle au bout de la cinquième page). On évite les facilités, en axant la romance sur un moment précis de la vie de ce couple emblématique de la série dont toutes les lectrices voulaient connaître. Nalini Singh ne propose qu'un épisode mais c'est tant mieux. Le format nouvelle prend tout son sens et j'ai littéralement dévoré cette nouvelle qui se lit très rapidement.L' écriture de Nalini Singh est très inspirée.
This book I have shelved for Stroke of Enticement a novella by Nalini Singh. Ms. Singh is one my favorite authors and while novellas are always too short for my personal taste this story is sweet. The other word that I would use is "full". By this I mean that Ms. Singh has told a full story, a story that has a beginning, middle and end. That the story has layers that make it complete not just a surface story. While there is little plot and not a lot of background, the story of Annie and Zach is complete and satisfying.