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Apr 11, 2009

Sizzlin Miss Kenjii rated it:

3.5 of 5

This m/m/f menage set in regency England was enjoyable. The characters are instantly likable and the scars carried by Kate actually make her stronger and Tony and Jason become protective but not cavemanish about her security. Even the budding sexuality and sassy attitude of her young teenage niece was a perfect accent to this tender sweet story.

Tony and Jason know they love Kate. Kate knows Tony and Jason like to have menage a trois. The real emotional turn comes More...

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Jun 28, 2008

Isis FG rated it:

Rating: 3.5 / 5

This book is all about the sex. Really really HOT sex, but pretty much just about the sex nonetheless. I saw it while I was poking around the Ellora's gave website and was hopelessly intrigued by the premise.

And after reading it, I'm having a hard time trying to decide how to review this book. Because on the one hand, the characters were cool, the romance was pretty good, and the writing itself lent it to being rather readable. Plus the sex was super ho More...

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Jun 28, 2008

Julie (jjmachshev) rated it:

"Brothers in Arms: The Courage to Love" by Samantha Kane is the first book in her historical erotica menage series. She uses the Napoleonic wars as the spur for her heroes preference for a menage relationship. The sex scenes are blistering and the love each hero feels for the heroine, and eventually, each other, shines through. I'm not usually a fan of M/M erotica, but in this book it just seems a part of the story and didn't turn me off at all. This first book sets up the villan a More...

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May 18, 2010

Maureen rated it:

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Jan 01, 2012

Beate rated it:

I was going for 2-3 out of 5 stars. Until a 16 year old (who's about to turn 17 in 2 months) got fingerfucked in an alley by a 30-something man. That, is just a big fucking no. I don't want to read about kids having sex. Ever.

Menages in Regency London did sound like it could be either very cool, or a complete train wreck. But polyamory and the formal language and very formal way of life just doesn't go together. It takes something that could potentially be very sexy, and makes it awk More...

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Mar 04, 2008

Kati rated it:

I had great expectations for this book. And I must say that the story didn't meet them. I was actually quite disappointed.

In the beginning, it looked like there would be an actual plot there, balancing the sex, unfortunately, the plot quickly succumbed to a huge amount of sexing and pathos so bad my teeth hurt.

I expected some slow discovering, adversity, nervousness... But everybody was so accepting, so kind, so understanding... in the early frickin' 19th century! Right More...

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Dec 19, 2010

Katie rated it:

If you're a fan of the genre, but have been left with the feeling of something missing after consuming other books, then this is for you. Yes, some people would call it Porn On Paper, but it's more than that. I found myself pleasantly surprised; so much so, that I actually sat down to write a review not even half way through the book. This book puts to us a menage relationship in the truest sense of the phrase. They have a relationship, not just a sexual coupling.
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Apr 11, 2010

Paige rated it:

I won't rehash the details of the plot, as others have done such a great job of covering all of that. What I want to address is a problem that I usually have with menage books - i.e. that authors want us to believe that all three (or however many) partners love and want each other equally. Unfortunately, more often than not, that's just not the case; it's all too clear that, for example, the two guys are much more interested in (and have deeper feelings for) one another, than they do for the wom More...

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Jun 08, 2010

Styles rated it:

I presume you know what the book is about. I'm letting you know what I liked or disliked about it.

I genuinely liked this book! It's part of a series and I'm going to keep reading my way through.

Sometimes it's the "simple-familiar" mixed with "the unusual" in just the right weave that opens my heart to the words of an author. The story line was familiar, the menage and supporting characters aspect in a historical romance setting newish to me.
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Nov 24, 2011

Carolyn F. rated it:

Kate's husband, Tony and Jason's friend and fellow soldier, is killed and in order to survive she becomes a mistress to several men over a period of time. Tony and Jason have always loved her but are waiting for her to sow her wild oats and then they plan on asking her to marry them both. This is supposed to be the 1800's and they just out and out say we want you to marry us both. A little delusional. They aren't lovers of each other but have enjoyed threesomes as some sort of healing balm f More...

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Nov 25, 2011

KK rated it:

This is a historical romance. Let me say that up front. They are not usually my thing and somehow I missed that little tidbit before I started reading. With that said it was a good story. As with many romance stories , lack of good communication , timing , and fear led the three characters to not be together. The two men Jason and Tony are military veterans who saw their fair share of violence and horror. Over the course of their time together in the military they became very close and found More...

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Feb 10, 2012

Jane rated it:

(read as part of KindleSmut readers group)

Kate Collier has to live a quiet life. With her soldier husband dead and a young niece to support, she takes a wealthy lover as protector, and then another. When one of them sets her up for a cruel gang rape and then spreads rumours about her, she is shunned by society.

Lord Jason Randall and Anthony Richards served in the Peninsula Wars with her late husband and they have long since been in love with Kate, but biding their time b More...

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Jun 29, 2010

Jimmy rated it:

Hot and intriguing, though not very realistic.

For one, if either Kate -or- Very acted like that true to times, they'd be charged as heretics and probably burned as witches possessed. I mean, a woman? Who actually thinks for herself? And who not only speaks up to a man but physically assaults him?? *gasp* Heathens! -_-;;

Kate goes back and forth between denial and a certain level of hedonism to the point that it gets kind of aggravating. She reminds me a great deal of Mis More...

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May 01, 2011

Maylin rated it:

This is the first of Samantha Kane's Brothers in Arms books which sets up an improbable universe where men returning from the Peninsular War are finding wifes to set up menage a trois.

It takes a couple of books to get over the total bizarreness of this but once you suspend belief these are great reads. For my taste there is (generally speaking) a bit too much lemon and not enough UST but having said that I think Ms Kane probably writes some of the best lemons I have ever read. They c More...

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May 05, 2011

Pamela rated it:

Katherine Collier left the well-heeled world long ago, though returning now was not an admission she had missed it. After her husband’s death and then being handed around to play mistress to various wealthy men she swears never allow another man to own her. Ever.

Seeing Kate for the first time in many years, Anthony Richards and Lord Jason Randell immediately noticed the change in her. As they fought wars for country, it seems she battled one too, and altogether too large for any kin More...

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Nov 28, 2011

Marissa rated it:

2.5 stars
This started with a woman who had been abused and destroyed, who is also caring for her 16yo niece, and the two old war buddies who want to marry her, take care of her and have lots of boisterous sex with her in a fun lovin 3-way, of course.
You are left with lots of sex, a mild altercation, lots more sex, and then it ended abruptly after the two men finally admitted they wanted and had sex with each other for the first time. It seemed like the serious points of the story wer More...

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Jan 28, 2012

Shan rated it:

I was a little confused in the beginning what time period this story was set in and then it seemed like the author kept jumping from character to another. Like I said I was confused, but that was only in the beginning.
After the first chapter everything started to make sense and I started to enjoy the story. The story is highly erotic and also very heartwarming and funny. I know it seems like those description probably shouldn't go hand in hand, but they fit.

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Nov 30, 2011

Vivian rated it:

Rocky start to this one with enough head jumps in one paragraph to induce nausea. Not page, paragraph. I was about to consign it to the DNF pile when it began to pick up and the change in POV became bearable. Still all over the place, but less frenetic.

Once the set up was established, it took off an was fairly good. There are some quick about face changes in both the heroine and secondary characters. Honestly, the strongest part was the relationship between the two male protagonists. More...

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Dec 03, 2011

Pamela rated it:

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Oct 11, 2009

Ridley rated it:

The Courage to Love is a M/M/F erotic romance ostensibly set in the Regency era. Jason Randall, an earl of some sort, and Anthony Richards are veterans of the Napoleonic wars and formed an especially close friendship while serving together. With the war over, they return to London to propose marriage to Katherine Collier, a widow of a comrade of theirs. Kate, however, was forced to become a mistress after her husband's death, with traumatic results, and refuses to give up her hard earned indepen More...

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Feb 20, 2011

Koren rated it:

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Feb 14, 2012

Heather in FL rated it:

I enjoyed this one. For some reason, I was under the impression that this series was about cowboys, not proper English people. :-) Not being English, and obviously not being from that era, lol, I don't get why Kate was ostracized for being raped. I never quite understood, in the other romance novels I've read from that general era, how being a mistress was not something to cause shame. You're basically being paid (you could get a house, clothing, servants, etc.) for being available to a married More...

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Nov 20, 2010

Jennifer rated it:

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Jun 10, 2010

Jill rated it:

The Courage To Love is the first book in Samantha Kane's Brothers in Arms series. Jason Randall and Tony Richards return from their sojourn on the continent to claim the woman they love. Kate has been living as a mistress to several men. Jason and Randal received a letter from one of Kate's friends suggesting that Kate needed their help and would be ready to settle down with them and start a new life as their wife. When Jason and Tony, go to see Kate, they know immediately that something is not More...

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Dec 30, 2011

Janna rated it:

This was a wonderful erotic, historical and romantic read. I'm not a huge fan of historical stories, but this one was really good. The historical details were not too elaborate and added a nice touch to the characters' issues. Rules of society that brings a man to duel for a woman's honor or make a woman an outcast because she's raped did give this story's heroine a believable struggle when the two men she loved did ask her to marry them.

The Courage to Love is a story of a menage a More...

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Apr 24, 2008

Matimate rated it:

My dear friend Katikat did not like that book, just check my f-list for her review. I have different opinion, this book simply rocks. My dear depraved friends, do not be mistaken this book is pure porn and does not pretend anything else. The historical setting to the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars was meant for fancy costumes, no doubt. It can be easily set in any other century or even in the future. It does not matter at all. The plot is very narrow and it did not disturb the general feeling More...

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Jan 05, 2012

Tonileg rated it:

Historical England is one of my favorite settings for romance novels, there is something about the anticipation in the myriad of rules and restrictions imposed on the well-born class. This is a threesome romance M/F/M about two best friends that fall for the same woman and start out 'straight' but then things get interesting as the story goes on. I can understand that people at that time would hide or purposely suppress homosexuality so that part of the the plot was believable, but Kate's retice More...

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Dec 21, 2011

Iris rated it:

I can honestly say that the only thing that I did not like about this book was how casual 2 men (in reality there seems to be a surprisingly large number of men, but this book is only about 2 of them.), in Regency England, are about being together. First they're nothing but best friends, but no one, least of them either of them, bat an eye at things getting sexual between the two of them. Not even a pause of awkwardness that you would expect, even between a man and a woman, going from friends to More...

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Feb 10, 2012

MrsJoseph rated it:

This book suffers from too many ideas, not enough...focus. There's a lot going on (as well as tons and tons of bonking) but there's no...meat (please excuse the pun). The author brings up some huge issues that are not really dealt with and resolved...more like the kind and loving writing god deus ex machina came down and waved his hand to make everyone ok.

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Feb 07, 2012

Lauren rated it:

I usually don't like historicals but this one was really good.

Jason and Tony come back from the war looking for Kate. She is the widow of their friend that died in battle. They have always been in love with her and are now ready to claim her.

Kate has had a hard life since her husband died. When the men return to profess their love, she doesn't want their reputations to be ruined so she turns them away. But, they will not accept no for an answer.

This was we More...

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