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Summary: Great title, great book!
Review: How could you go wrong with a steamy romance entitled, "The Love Slave"? Virgin abduction, training in erotic arts, and lots of lusty harem scenes to whisk you away to another world!
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Summary: Not What I Thought It Would Be
Review: This is another book that could have had very powerful, erotic love scenes, but the suthor seems to rush them. She is more interested in the backgroung scenes, clothing and poltics than the what is going on between Regan and Karim, Regan and the Calaph or Regan and the Doctor. The story is well written and much more accurate than some of the other stories with this theme.
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Summary: Bertrice Small
Review: This was my first Bertrice Small book. I had run out of reading material and my friend loaned me her much read and mended book. I loved it, it had everything you read a romance for. Regan was a character that I could like. She was not silly, but at the same time she was not too hard. This book made me cry several times and that is always a sign of a good book. Set during a time period that I have never read before, and a harem... I must admit that I was not to sure, but don't let that put you off. It is a real page turner. The Love Slave is worth reading.
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Summary: Love the book!
Review: This was a great book!! I agree with another reviewer,...I hope Bertrice will consider a sequel to this book and do one of Regan's sister!
The story was colorful and the characters were very lively! This is definitely a much better book than her recent one, "The Dutchess"!
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Summary: What the reviewer from June 25th is missing...
Review: The review who thinks this is all "Kiddie Porn" is missing the point. I am a faithfull reader of Small's work in part because of the lush love scenes, but more importantally as a historian I appriciate the HISTORICAL ACCURACY of her work. IF the "Kiddie Prorn" reviewer had botherd to look at ANY crediable history book she would know that women were married young throughout most of history. Try the Gies brothers work "Life in a Medieval Castle" it is very easy to understand and points out that Women could be married at 12 and usually married by 14, girls as young a 4 were married and could consumate the marriage as soon as their parents aggreed. It is politcally correct to disapprove of young girls having sexual feelings and acting on them... The fact is throughout history women have been pressed into, or allowd to consumate a marriage in thier teen and pre-teen years. The historical accuracy Small presents is what keeps me coming back for more, I can make the distinction between REALITY, FICTION and HISTORY.
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Summary: Love Slave
Review: This was the first Bertrice Small book I read--on the sly when I was seventeen--and I've been hooked on Bertrice Small ever since. Hot, hot, hot--and an interesting story too! I loved it and have read it several times since. Warning: if you are offended by lots of explicit sex, this book is definitely not for you. Otherwise, read it--you won't be disappointed. Purple prose it may be, but I have yet to read a romance that isn't.
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Summary: kiddie porn
Review: I am sort of appalled that so many readers would rate this book so high. 5 stars for a story of a young girl (yes, girl) and a 28 year old man than a 50 year old man who use her sexually? The fact that so many find it "erotic" that a man would insert silver balls, use dildos rectally on a (age range in this story) 13-15 year old girl is sort of creepy. This is Ms. Small's idea of romance? Regan, a young Scottish lass, is sent to a convent at 13. Instead, she is sold as a slave to be tutored as a love slave for a Moor. Regan's twin sister, Gruoch, is to be married to a family enemy but is pregnant at the time of her wedding. Regan takes her place in the marriage bed so all would assume Gruoch was a virgin like Regan. When the wedding Regan is sent to this convent. Anyway, the story would have worked far better had Regan actually stayed at the convent for a few years than be sold. Again, the age of Regan is really crude.
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Summary: Fun story, heavy on the adult scenes
Review: A warning to those who have not read Bertrice Small before: the love scenes are very explicit, and there are lots of them. If this offends you at all, you probably shouldn't read this book. If you like a LOT of spice in your romance, you will enjoy this tale of a young Irish girl who is sold into slavery after an unhappy and brutal childhood. She is trained to be a "Love Slave" for a powerful Moorish caliph. She and her "Passion Master" spend an intense year studing the sensual arts and fall in love. Nevertheless, the master delivers her to the caliph and they both go on to lead adventurous lives, yearning to find a way to be together again. As always, Small's historical research is good and she skillfully weaves it into the story.
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Summary: Wonderfully Trashy
Review: Hear parts of the book... explicit and disgusting but I loved it. I never knew there were so many ways to describe sex without actually saying the word "sex."
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Summary: Sex, sex... where is the Romance?
Review: Regan: Born the second of the twins was a disappointment to her mother, who wanted a son. She wasn't favored nor love but neither treated badly by her mother. Just ignored. When her twin sister, Grouch, marries the laird's son to form a unity & peace to the clan's enemy, she was to be sent in the convent forever. Her mother & twin sister had a plan of revenge which requires Regan to sacrifice her virginity to Grouch husband. Grouch was carrying another's mans child already. When she arrived in the convent, however, she was abducted, shipped to the other side of the world, sold & trained to be a love slave for a king....The first part of the book was very intriguing. The conflict between the clans, the planned revenge & Regan's destiny was something u want to read more on... I find the first part of the book exciting. Until...Regan begun her love slave training. The book then simply concentrated on the arts of sex, which was somehow interesting - different, I may add! ... but the initial story line was forgotten. What happend to Grouch? Was her planned revenge successful? I was hoping to see Regan return to her homeland even for just a visit. Regan,who became Zaynab, supposedly also enjoys being a love slave cuz she was pampered compared to living in her homeland where she was ignored. Wouldn't it be nice to read about her homecoming when she was finally free? Wouldn't it be nice to know if her sacrifice was a fruitful act? I think this book is just incomplete. Beatrice Small simply didn't have to mentioned all that revenge plot to begin with if she didn't have the plan to end it. But then I wouldn't be intrigue to read on now, would I ? Aside from the steamy sex, there is absolutely no romance between Zaynab & Karim. I thought their sex was just the same as Zaynab's other partners so what makes them both special to one another? Ok, they always thought about each other. They haven't forgotten each other and supposedly they are both so much in love with each other. But how did this happend? She was Karim's student, He was Zaynab's sex teacher... Aside from that, there was no situations or occurances that you could see nor feel their love for one another. Totally unconvincing to me. The Caliph feelings for Zaynab was more detailed. He might be old for her but you can see how much he loves her. Not only did he pampered her with gifts, he was unselfish, sensitive & considerate. I would have given this book a 1 star rating if not for the well researched and well used informations of the arts of sex. The title suit its content... Beatrice Small made this book very different from my usual historical romance books by Julie Garwood, Jude Deveraux, Jill Barnett & Judith McNaught. This book was interesting yet I prefer the historical ROMANCE stories...with lots of courtship and old fashion love making :-) This is my first book of Beatrice Small, I might even pick up some more of her books in the future to give it another try, as this one wasn't that bad. But I think I would barrow her books in the library first. And if I like the book, I'll buy it to add in my collection.
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