Another Dawn (Coleman Family Saga #2)

ANOTHER DAWN by Sandra Brown is the second in the Coleman saga series. The prime characters in Sunset Embrace, Lydia, Ross and Ma Langston, are relegated to secondary status in this novel. Their offspring, Banner Coleman and Jake Langston, are primary in Another Dawn. The novel is one of Browns period pieces that takes place in the rough and rugged Territory of Texas in the 1890s. The story begins with 18-year-old Banners wedding ceremony to a local entrepreneur. The wedding is interrupted by gunfire. Much older, Jake, makes an attempt to console innocent and gorgeous young Banner. Here the plan goes awry but the plot and story are established. Brown has a knack of lulling the reader with a smooth flowing narrative, then suddenly jerking his socks off with a burst of energy, abruptly changing speed and direction and going from the disconsolate to the riotous. It has been a long time since I read a novel with so many emotionally charged ups and downs, intense feelings of love, hate, jealousy and sorrow but with spurts of happiness seemly all strung together with razor-wire. An exaggerated amount of sexual interplay is displayed on almost every page at times so monotonous and repetitious that it becomes boring. I have to say that Sandra Brown is one heck of a writer. Her dialogue can instantly stir intense feelings of emotion in a readers mind. I give Another Dawn a 4-star rating.

I didn\’t know how Sandra Brown would be able to follow-up Sunset Embrace, but she sure did. I really enjoyed the continued story of Lydia and Ross. At the beginning I found myself wanting more of them in the story, but I ended up so immersed in Banner and Jake\’s relationship that I didn\’t mind them not being it as much. Then when the story incorporated them all I was completely satisfied. As always, Sandra takes her readers on a journey where you come to feel close the characters and I always have difficulty putting the books down. This one was no different. This book included cowboys and whores and family and foes… it was certainly a page turner with a twist at the end. I\’ll warn you, I was left feeling empty and awful at the end of this book. Be prepared for a major twist that will break your heart. Even with the ending, the Coleman Saga books rank near the top of my all time favorites by Sandra Brown.

It\’s so thin compared to the first novel. Their first sexual encounter was described badly. I am still not sure yet happened or why. How is a woman at the altar with the love of her life one minute and then losing her virginity to a guy old enough to be her dad the same night? It was like incest done BADLY. It made me feel icky.

Initially, I felt like there was a book missing between this one and the first one because new characters were introduced that didn\’t exist in the previous story. I liked the creative resolution of unresolved plot lines from the first novel within this story because they didn\’t distract you from the story but enhanced it. In other words, the reader didn\’t have to read the first novel to understand what was happening in this one and why.

Page after page of passion and intertwined tongue and moonlight. Rolls in the hay, literally with deceiving by several players. If you\’re looking for passion, this is it.

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