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Summary: Lush, Sexual Pleasure
Review: Bertrice Small is not afraid to show us that women can enjoy sex, too. This book is highly erotic and very sexual yet told in a such a well written manner that I was instantly sucked in. Young Regan is sold to a slaver and renamed Zaynab. She is trained to be a Love Slave, the most talented of the courtesans. The lush writing and exquisite detail of Mrs. Small swept me into Zaynab's world. I felt like I was actually there! Though the courtesan is usually a woman that average society looks down upon, Mrs. Small showed us a world of sex and survival through the eyes of such a woman. If you are someone who does not approve of sexually detailed writing, you will not enjoy this book. However, if you are a woman who wants to see through the eyes of a Love Slave, you will truly enjoy this book.
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Summary: Book should be marketed under EROTICA, not ROMANCE
Review: This is the first Ms Bertrice's book I ever read and still don't Know what to make of it. The two main characters, Zaynab and Karim, fell in lust at first sight. Although the author tries to justify their "love," I still can't believe that a relationship can be based on sex only. Zaynab also comes across as a pompous, pretentious person who needs to justify her actions to the reader. If she believes her actions are necessary for her survival, they need not be justified.
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Summary: The best piece of historical erotica in harem genre
Review: The Love Slave by Beatrice Small is one fine piece of erotica,meticulously researched, and very historically accurate. Thecharacters are all strong, and Regan herself is a modern day playmate trapped within the walls of the harem...I understand that a lot of the reviewers were so upset that Regan merely resigns herself to her sexual fate. Faced with that or death, Regan made tha appropriate choice. The love scenes are enjoyably graphic, and with a title like "Love Slave" what does a reader expect? I believe that the scenes between Regan and the Caliph were among some of the best erotica in print....the fact that he impregnates her, shows that Small is realistic and fearless as a writer...He is old enough to be her father and she is a mere teenager a la Britney Spears...Yet, she grows to love even him...Scenes describing virtually every sex act of the Kama Sutra, and then some is what the Caliph subjects Regan to almost nightly, so it is only natural she lands up with child. That is not even the end of the story, as she then becomes the object of lust of even more men in her middle eastern adventure, as she searches for her true love....The best since 1978's The Savage Sands...A screenplay needs to be made of this novel...I would cast Sean Connery or Tony Hopkins as the Caliph, maybe Antonio Banderas as the true love, and in the lead role, possibly a Sarah Michelle Gellar, or even Mira Sorovino, the American Beauty herself...Highly recommended.
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Summary: This book left me a little cold....like Regan herself.
Review: I don't know what to think about this story, to be honest. I wouldn't be too convinced that Bertrice Small wrote it, if it weren't for the incredibly graphic erotic scenes that she's so famous for. (If anything, I wonder what was going through her mind while she was writing this and "Hellion" - they were put out about the same time and both have a great deal of erotic, graphically described almost to the point of porn-sex scenes in them!) But this book, as in others from this time period of Small's work, contains very little characterization. I couldn't relate to Regan because I couldn't get into her head. Same for Karim. The servant and her Alaeddin were actually more interesting to me than the main characters. And I agree with the obvious "easy out" taken for Regan's daughter in this book - isn't there a better way, if you have to dispose of a character?I'm not real sure what to think of this work, frankly. I'd give it another read if I were bored but there's better out there.
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Summary: Lusty love story!
Review: Regan is a fascinating heroine. She is treated abominably by her mother and her sister,yet she triumphs in the end to become a strong and successful woman. Karim al Malina is one of Ms. Small's best heroes yet. He is strong,full of honour and totally in love with Regan, whom he renames Zaynab. I enjoyed the Moorish history in this book and found that the characters were all very interesting. I would love for Ms. Small to write a sequel so that we could find out about Regans sister, Gruoch. A word of warning, this book fairly sizzles in some parts and could be quite shocking to some. And overall excellent story!
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Summary: wonderful love story
Review: I loved this book. It was well written and was fast paced and very exciting. I love the romance and the trials that the girl faces from her family to her master who she finally falls in love with.
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Summary: The best of Small-hot, hot, hot
Review: There are some books you leaf through and forget-this is not one of them. I couldn't put it down. The characters are great, the plot keeps moving and the rest---well, we all know what Small is famous for. The best of all Small's novels to date and a strong female lead. If only they could all be like this.
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Summary: It's All right, I guess.
Review: I felt sorry for Regan in the beginning, being shoved aside by her mother as a baby and being forced to lie with a man who smelled of horses in her twin sister's place. Later, Regan was to be sold into slavery by the people who ran the nunnery, but not before being raped buy the man who ripped her clothes off. Regan does get what she desires in the end, but only after she is forced to leave the palace, because of a jealous first wife who poisons her twice, with her daughter, who conveniently dies of an outbreak of spotted fever on one of the visits to her father. This was an obvious "easy out" that infuriated me because it only received four lines in the book. Okay, it isn't wise to have a daughter in tow when you want to return to the one you love, (obvious plot hole!) but she didn't have to die like that. There would have been someone to care for her with all those women around.
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Summary: Stunning... A Real Page Turner.. Erotic,Steamy,Evocative!
Review: I am a big Bertice Small fan. I have all of her books. I have reread this book too many times to count. The characters are enthralling. Once I started reading this book I could not stop. My husband has read this book also and found that he couldn't put it down. It is like action adventure and romance and sex all in one. The writing is sooo good that you can just picture everything that is happening. I love Bertrice Small books and cannot wait for the next adventure!
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Summary: Fantastic read! One of her best.
Review: As usual, when I saw a new Bertrice Small book on the shelf, I had to have it immediately. I enjoy her "history lessons" as well as the fantasies. I can't wait for the next book!
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