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Summary: Erotic Romance Novel
Review: I recommend LEGENDARY LOVER to those who are willing to stretch their boundaries, put aside preconceived ideas of what a romance novel should be. This story is a wonderfully intellectual erotic read, a true EROTIC ROMANCE. She simply achieves a very appealing balance of love, history, and lots of hot sex! In the erotica department, Susan's imagination knows no limits. This story is about Venus Duras the daughter of Pasha and Trixie Duras (A Touch of Sin). Jack and Venus are two headstrong people who make a darling couple. Neither of them want to make comments or become married. Nevertheless, they cannot pass up the sexual awarness that is between them even a hand shake causes an inexplicalbe thrill to run threw them both. During a few months of passionate, love the find that they cannot deal with being apart from each other. I do not recommend this book to those who are easily offended by erotic sex.
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Summary: This is a good book
Review: I was a little leary of buying this book, since i didn't really enjoy the last book - How to please a lady. but I really enjoyed this book. If you are a fan of susan johnson's, you'll find she's back.
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Summary: not the book it could be
Review: I was disappointed. This book bears no relation to the earlier, wonderful Johnson books. It's her second in a row that lacks both character development and plot. I too love her steamy sex scenes, but they have to be built up to. These aren't.
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Summary: Disappointment
Review: I was highly disappointed in this book. I remember reading Susan Johnson's beginning books (starting with Sinful) and there used to be some plot with enjoyable characters. The love scenes were steamy, but yet romantic. This book was pure sex and the plot was very weak. I skimmed through most of the book and that didn't take very long, that I returned it the very same day. So unless you enjoy just reading the sex scenes, this will be enjoyable for you, if not then stay clear.
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Summary: Absolute junk
Review: I've been reading romance novels for 20 years. I always enjoy sexy, romantic stories. But, this is the first novel I've absolutely, positively hated! I've never read a book by this author, and won't buy another one either. There is no "romance" and very little plot to keep a reader's interest. I was also surprised by the use of a lot of modern profanity. Recommendation: save your money!
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Summary: Hot sex but that's all it's good for.
Review: I've read all of Johnson's books and I was highly disappointed with this one. Like all of her books, there are lots of HOT love scenes, but unlike most of her other books, the story lacks depth. Both the hero and heroine are highly attractive people, but the plot does not take advantage of this. On the whole, it's a good read, but I wouldn't advise paying the full list price for it.
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Summary: One of her best yet.
Review: I've read most of her books and they usually start out strong but left me disappointed. This time I was left satisfied all the way. You must buy it to believe it but its definately one of her best yet.
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Summary: Good erotic romance
Review: In 1851 in London's Crystal Palace, legendary womanizer Jack Fitz-James, the Marquis of Redvers, bumps into a beautiful woman as he tries to escape the clutches of two other women. Jack turns on his charm at full blast while inviting his new acquaintance to dinner, but to his shock Venus Duras rejects him due to her knowledge of his outrageous reputation.Not long after that, everyone in the Ton claims to have seen that encounter. Wages on who will gain the upper hand between this pair becomes the most popular bet in town. As Jack pursues Venus, she stuns him further with her attitude. She wants a passionate affair without the ball and chain of marriage. Jack and Venus fall in love, but neither one has ever learned to trust and without a deep faith in the other, their relationship seems doomed to fail before it can fully blossom. LEGENDARY LOVERS is a warm humorous Victorian romance starring two wonderful characters. The story line is a lighthearted romp that fully entertains the audience. The way the Ton reacts will remind the reader how almost every male baby boomer claims to have been at Ali-Frazier I in the Garden and at the ball park for McGuire's sixty-second homer. Though Susan Johnson pokes fun in an amusing manner at the manners of the era, the historical tidbits are well researched and blended into the plot. Ms. Johnson has written a fabulous historical romance that will give much pleasure to sub-genre fans. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Johnson does what she does best...
Review: Jack Fitz-James and Venus Duras are stunningly attractive, wealthy, independent, and bored, bored, BORED! Bored with popular society and it's aimless pursuits. Bored with the countless members of the opposite sex who throw themselves at them. Bored with the love affairs that they have both had. And then...Venus and Jack meet. Sparks fly. Clothes are thrown off. A torrid love affair begins. And Venus and Jack begin to wonder - is this just lust? Or is the irrestible pull they feel toward each other something more...? Why do I enjoy reading Susan Johnson's books? Is it for the labyrinthe stories? The deep and moving characters? No, no, no! It's for the erotic and imaginative love scenes - and this book has them (plenty of them). No one writes witty repartee between lovers better than Johnson does, and there is plenty of that here, too. The previous Duras family books are my favorite of Johnson's novels, and this one is right up there with the other two. I don't mean to sell this book short. Ms. Johnson does research her novels well (her books are the only romance novels I know of that have footnotes). And there is a story, of sorts. But really, you won't care because the love scenes, and the lovers, are so hot and so much fun. If you're looking for a fast, sexy, and witty romance, this is the book for you. Thanks to Ms. Johnson for an entertaining read!
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Summary: This is a Book to Read in a Warm Bath
Review: Jack is pushed into a set-up to meet Venus Duras by his meddling godmother, and the moment they touch, voilins play, fire works go off, birds sing, the ball room breaks out into a dance number a la Rogers and Hammerstein, and pretty soon he and Venus are boinking like rabbits. And that's the rest of the book. The hero and heroine have an endurance level that even the Olympian gods wouldn't be able to match, and if you cut out all the "love" scenes and only kept the portions of this book devoted to plot, it'd be less than fifty pages long. I'll stop being a grouch for five seconds to admit that Johnson has potential as a writer. Jack was a likable character, when he wasn't being written into the 19th century's version of Mark David Chapman, and the reader wants him and Venus to admit they love each other and get married, if only to put an end to the sex scenes that occasionally border on the S&M side. However, I was never convinced their attraction for one another was more than temporal, and the scenes that may have convinced me otherwize, -- where they talk as friends and two people with shared interests -- the author only told us about, sacrificing the heart of the story in favor of . . . well, the warm bath, I suppose. The subplot, where scheming members of the ton try to separate the hero and heroine, was also unconvincing, and added nothing to the story except pages. This is not a love story, or even a romance, but pornography with a pretty cover, plain and simple. To be honest, I didn't know whether to give this book four stars for the sex scenes or one star because of them, but it appears my literary sensibilities have won out. If you're looking for sex, buy this book. If you want a story worth more than the paper it's printed on, don't waste your money on LEGENDARY LOVER.
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