^^UNDONE,LAID BARE AND WIDE OPEN!!^^

Lauren Dane does it again, spinning an erotic tale with human emotion and sizzling sex. This book is the second in a series revolving around a family of siblings and the women/men they love. Although this book is not as epic as the first it’s just as good and emotional, then again my view could be biased because the first book had a very unusual coupling and I loved it.

Brody Brown is the caretaker for everyone, raising his siblings from the tender age of 17 g More...

Opening Line: "Even at the close of the day, the sun was enough to make the ride home from work totally perfect."

Ever since I read Laid Bare I’ve been waiting for Lauren Dane to continue with her sexy ‘Brown family’ series and with Erin’s brother Brody as our lead character here she doesn’t disappoint. COMING UNDONE grabs your attention right away with its cast of familiar characters, erotic love scenes, perceptive writing and Brody. Wow, who wouldn’t fall in love with this bad-boy on the outsid More...

I won't write a plot synopsis, since there a few very detailed ones at GR already.

I absolutely loved Coming Undone! The story takes place over about 1 1/2 years and you really get to know Brody and Elise. I've read all Ms. Dane's Chase brothers books, and the first in this series, Laid Bare. I loved all of her heroes. They are alpha in most aspects, but also so warm and caring that I just want to cuddle with them all!
Well, at the very least, any way....

There are quite a few secondary character More...

After raising his brother and sister when his parents died, Brody Brown never expected himself to truly get involved in a relationship that would require anything more than some shared intimacy. When he meets Elise Sorenson for the first time, he thinks he has had a glimpse of an angel. His new neighbor and her six year old daughter continue to draw his attention and now for the first time in his forty years he is wondering if they are what he has been missing all along.

I love this story, Brody More...

Very, very nice read. I really enjoyed this one. There was nothing particularly unusual about the plot, no sudden twists or turns or nothing overly melodramatic, or no big hidden secret revealed (okay, there was a secret revealed, but I doubt readers will be shocked by the secret)--this was just a beautifully detailed character driven story, and what wonderful characters they were! I absolutely fell in love with the hero, the heroine, and their extended families. Although this book is part of a More...

I loved this book!

After the kink-fest of the first in the Brown Siblings series – Laid Bare – I delayed starting this one until I felt brave enough to read it. But apart from one very unexpected visit to Erin, Todd and Ben’s bedroom, this is a gorgeously swoony, fairly straight (and freaking HOT) romance.

Brody is Erin’s sexy, responsible, tattoo-artist older brother (who I fell for a little bit in the last book), and this is the story of him meeting and falling for Elise, a single mother with a More...

First Read January 22 2010

This book was freaking awesome!!!!!

I just finished it and I am just really at a loss for words except, it was just awesome!!!!




Re-read 9/2011

Brody Brown remains the #1 hero in my opinion. Everything about him was just so, so swoon worthy. He is every woman's fantasy, hell probably some men too.

This book was just as good if not better the second time around. I loved the camaraderie among the Brown siblings and the other people in their lives. I also have to admit I still More...

Solid 3.5 star rating

Seriously?? What am I missing here. All the reviews and rating seem so good. I just can't figure out why I am not finding that wow factor.

Elisa, I love her. She is one strong woman who has overcome A LOT. Plus, she is one kick ass mom. Annnnnd, can we scream BACKBONE! I do love when my heroines have backbone!

Brody, what's not to love. Hot, pierced nip, tattooed, family first, being extra strength for Elisa, Oh I know what's not to love. Raven, and his friendship with her. O More...

The second book for the Brown family. I found it not as good as the first, but its still a good erotic romance. You’ll read about the whole family again plus you get another glimpse into Erin’s bedroom with her two men, so this one does have m/m and more m/m interaction then in the first book. You still get excitement, mixed emotions with a added bonus of a hot tattoo, body piercing man with a goatee named Brody who owns his own tattoo studio.

Spoilers
Elise and daughter Rennie moves across the More...

This is the review for all the three books.


Lauren Dane conjured a happy go lucky world; a circle of friends and lovers in which good beats shit out of evil. There isn't a bad word shed among friends, they kiss and hug because they feel like it. They create this good feeling in the peeping toms i.e. us readers and make us grin most of the time. Well at least this is true in my case. However, there are moments in all the three books when I wondered if I missed a page because the author's stream o More...

Coming Undone: 2 star DNF


This book has gotten some rave reviews. I love the characters and the premise behind the book. Sexy Tatted up bad but covert good guy. A strong heroine fighting her past with a cute tot. Great themes here!! But...OMG this book IMHO is written terribly. The prose is so unnatural and choppy. It's a hard read! Sentence fluency and word choice needs to be corrected. Did no editor catch this? Every review said the sex was great and I can only hope that the climax (I can easil More...

BRODY...sighhh... I loved Laid Bare, but I REALLY LOVED Coming Undone, maybe because there was no big suspense, but instead a broken single mom, a HOT bad boy (who was not so bad on the inside) and a precocious 7 yr old. Brody sooo does it for me, tattoos, motorcycle all the things that set my bad boy tingle to hyperspeed - but he is also loving, loyal and protective. Elise is raising her daughter, while trying to keep a new business going, so she doesn't have time for men or dating. Brody is he More...

Well, one thing is for certain, the emotional intensity was definitely present throughout COMING UNDONE. I am in love with Brody...what a wonderful man.

Single mom, Elise has been emotionally and physically abused--duh! What novel would be complete without the wounded dove? Now, in a new town she finds friendship and love in the most unexpected place...in her front yard, well, technically across the street--semantics. This was a great story of new beginnings and letting go of the past...of lovin More...

I'm going to have to write "what Katie(babs) said".

An erotica needs to hit both on sex that is part of the story and emotions.

The sex is the same as any romance novel, except for when to 'spice' is the author changed POV's to the sister for a half dozen pages and a sex scene btwn her and her men (yes 2). Which since I had no intentions of reading Laid Bare nearly turned it into a DNF. It's the ONLY part of the book that is not from the POV or lives of our main characters and was poorly done IMO More...

I've heard a lot of good things about Lauren Dane but have never read her since most of her books that I saw reviewed involved menage which just isn't really my thing. But when I read the plot synopsis of Coming Undone I was really intrigued by the pairing of a classical ballerina and a tatoo artist. The worlds that they come from just seem so different that I was really interested in how they would come together. Ultimately I enjoyed the book enough to get some other Lauren Dane books because I More...

Another winner from Lauren Dane!

Elsie moves into the street where Brody lives after leaving her home town with her daughter Rennie. Brody gets knocked down one morning by a hit and run driver and Elsie comes to his rescue. He's fine and decides he needs to thank Elsie for helping him after the accident as he has taken on the helper role in the family since the death of his parents. Last thing he thinks he needs is to start a romance with a woman with a kid however as the weeks unfold the connect More...

This was my first Lauren Dane book. My dearest friend at Belle's Book Bag highly recommended this book. So happy she did. I was hooked from the 1st page. Thank you Belle's Book Bag for introducing me to a new author.

Elise is strong, independent, wonderful mother and survivor. She has gone through a lot through her bad marriage and issues with her brother. She moves with her young daughter to a new town to try and start a new life and keep her daughter protected. Her daughter will always come fi More...

What did I think. I have only read a couple of Lauren Dane books and they have always been good. This one I don't know if it was because I really connected to the characters or what. I love Brody he looks like a bad boy with the motorcycle and tattoo's but he's really a good guy. Raising his younger sister and brother after their parents deaths. Then he meets his next door neighbor. Elise is a single Mum with a 7 year old daughter, she has baggage. They meet and fairly quickly start a friends wi More...

We meet Brody Brown, the hero, in the first book in this series, Laid Bare. He is the oldest brother of three siblings on which this series is based. At a young age, the Brown siblings parents die and Brody has to take over the raising of his siblings, putting aside dreams of going to art school. Now years later, Erin Brown is settled down with her two men, Todd and Ben. Life is good for Brody. He is nearing 40, owns his own house, rides his Harley on sunny days and has all the family and friend More...

I've wanted to read Lauren Dane for a long time. Coming Undone kinda fell in my lap and it was only after I started it that I realized it was not the first book of the Brown siblings series. It was fine as a stand alone.

Ms. Dane includes a short note at the beginning where she says that she writes "families" a lot to show connection both to each other and the community you live in. She adds that these connections are not always made by blood relationships, but by the people you choose to be part More...

I absolutely loved this book. I haven't read a book in a while that I truly enjoyed this much.

It focused on real relationships. Romanance, family, friends. It was nice to read about an older couple as opposed to most that I've read with characters in their twenties and early thirties. Not that I don't love those, I do. It's just a nice change to see that older couples are also seen as very sexual beings.

Lauren Dane captures every feeling of each character and every situation and brings it to lif More...

Cover & Title - 4.5/5
Favorite line - “Like I need to play on the Wii when you're there willing to fuck me. Video games are what men invented to fill the sex void. Any man who chooses video games over sex deserves to live in his mother's basement with his mint-condition, in box Star Wars figurines and his real doll."
Favorite Character - Rennie

I enjoyed this book, it was a great follow on from Erin's book which was first in the series. It is not even a third as kinky as Erin's book (Laid Bare) More...

About 80% in & I can't take anymore. I'm done.
Lauren Dane manages to retell the same story in many different ways.

Lauren Dane books I have read:

Giving Chase - Heroine is stalked & abducted by ex-boyfriend. Hero is there for her, tells her she is perfect, consoles her & brings her back to the world of the living where everything is bright & cheery & perfect.

Taking Chase: Chase Brothers, Book 2 - Heroine is running from her old life, her ex-husband who almost killed her & More...

Instructions for a steamy romance:

1. Take a damaged Ballerina
2. Add a tattoo artist
3. Stir in a seven-year old
4 Take a crazy-in-law and beat it into submission
5. Bake at 350 for about four hours and you now have a touching romance worth every penny (12.99...just saying).



Elise Sorenson, a former ballerina, comes to Seattle licking her wounds and hoping to build a fantastic life for her seven-year old daughter Rennie. After a horrific prior relationship Elise is against dating or bringing any man More...

I pretty much fell in love with the Brown family when I read Laid Bare. Watching Brody be able to finally start a life of his own after taking care of everyone around him for so long was nice.

This story was less drama filled than the last book. While Elise had a lot of things to over come throughout her life she was pretty well together by the time we meet her. In the end that let the story be all about Elise and Brody and not filled with so much trauma. There were some truly great lines scatte More...

After reading "Laid Bare", I just had to get this next one. Like, it wasn't an option not to. The story of Brody and Elise felt familiar to me. I guess maybe Dane wrote them in such a way that I felt like knew these people and felt their pain.

In the first novel of the series, I didn't feel very drawn to Todd but Brody was entirely different. I could really see him and felt his actions were genuine. Whereas I though Laid Bare had a bit TOO much sex (apparently there can be such a thing!) it was More...

Coming Undone is the highly anticipated follow-up to Laid Bare. Although this is a sequel it can definitely be read as a stand-alone. Coming Undone centers on Erin's older brother Brody and his new neighbor, Elise.


Brody is almost 40, tatted up, and hot; he actually owns his own tattoo parlor. We learn throughout the story that Brody's parents died when he was a young man and he left his plans for the future to care for his younger brother and sister - he doesn't regret any of it, they are a ver More...

More like 3 1/2 stars....

Another good installment from Lauren Dane. This was a nice friends to lovers books. Very adult and low key. Tatto artist Brody is the older brother to Erin (whose book Laid Bare was a nice eroic m/f/m read) and Adrian. He lives a good comfortable life. Although he looks like some mean, tattooed biker, he is a really a nice solid citizen who loves his family and has a good business.

Elise, a former prima ballerina, moves in across the street from him. She has a lovely daug More...

Coming Undone focuses on Brody Brown, Erin Brown’s (from Laid Bare) brother. Brody is the ideal big brother, if you can still say that about a sexy 40 year old tattooed biker guy. He took up the reigns raising his siblings when he was just 17 and has been their protector for all of his life. He runs a successful tattoo shop and has little time for more than a casual fling here and there. His world is reshaped when he starts up a casual relationship with his new neighbor, Elise Sorenson. Elise is More...