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Summary: A Great Book Just Be Prepared
Review: I've read all of the comments. Although I agree that some of the statements, Ms. Small's remarks can be rough around the edges (See other comments) Take this book as it was meant A FICTIONAL Historical Romance Novel. It's the first in a great line of Skye O'Malley books. I've read it and all the others a number of times and enjoy them even more each time I read them. I envy all of you who will read the Skye O'Malley series of books for the first time. It is one of the most ejoyable reads you will have in the romance line. I highly recommend all of Ms. Small's book I haven't missed one and NEVER plan to
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Summary: This book is one of the BEST!!!!!
Review: I've read this more than once, and I can tell that this book kicks ass. I can't believe that some people did not like this book at all. From my experience with historical romance, these people are mighty stupid. Bertrice Small knows how to grab the attention of her readers until the end. I
also recommend another of her books, Blaze Wynndam.
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Summary: Wonderful!
Review: Although many have trashed this book, I believe they take it, and themselves, way to seriously and should lighten up. Bertrice Small writes for ENTEERTAINMENT, and the research she puts into her books is astounding! Ms. Small's characters are strong, and insead of weeping pitiously in the face of adversity, make the best of the situations they find themselves in. Unlike mass market authors who put out 5 books a year, she keeps her fans breathlessly awaiting her next tale of love, adventure, and lets not forget...sex
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Summary: Some Like It Purple, I Suppose...
Review: ...but I don't. I think this is the worst incidence of purple prose I have ever come across. I'll let this monstrousity speak for itself.
"...he pushed carefully into her in the Greek fashion."
"I want you to do to me what my stallion does to my mare."
"Your little honey-oven was made for me!"
"See how sweetly your breast nestles into my hand? It is like a little white dove."
"His legs were long, shapely, and covered with a fine pale golden down. His feet were slender, high-arched, the nails neatly pared. Her eyes wandered upward again to his sex, limp now and settled cozily in its nest of soft blond hair. It looked so sweet and harmless now, yet a short while ago it had been a great, blue-veined beast driving her to pleasures she hadn't known existed."
I could go on. I really could. I suppose this book could get a higher rating on merit of my uproarious laughter at its content. If you like it purple, then you'll LOVE Bertrice Small.
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Summary: I really wanted to like this book...
Review: ...but I didn't like it at all. I chose Skye O'Malley as a novel to read for my women's study group. Yes, she's a remarkable character, but I just couldn't identify with her (or with any other character in the book). It seemed to me that the author was using this book to get out some of her own sexual frustrations and hang-ups. Phrases like "anal orifice" just made me laugh out loud--how purple the pen can be! This book will sell another million copies regardless of what I say, but I just had to come clean. I thought Skye O'Malley stunk, although it was so awful, I laughed all the way through it. Maybe that's the appeal
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Summary: Great Book. One you will not be able to put down!!!!!!!
Review: This book will make to want to read everything that Beatrice Small has written. She is A wonderful Author
And you will have a hard time putting down any of her books.
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Summary: I LOVED the Jedi comments!
Review: How true, how true! I think it must have been a Jedi mind trick that made me BUY this book in the first place. Oh, it was detailed and dashing and all of that rot. I didn't care. Buyer, beware
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Summary: A Pretty Silly Book
Review: Ms. Small missed the part where Skye is contacted by Obi-Wan Kenobi and sent to the Dagobah system, so that she can complete her Jedi training. Why not? Skye can do everything else, why not tangle with the Force? I hear the Dark Side quaking..
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Summary: love and tragedy for an Irishwoman in Elizabethan times
Review: A daughter of a Irish pirate/seaman, Skye is the daughter of his heart. He marries her to the local lord, and dies, leaving her in charge of his vast empire. The lord, whom she despises, dies under questionable circumstances, which lets her wed the one lord she loves. Before the marriage can take place she must go to Algiers and is washed off board during a fight. Believing her betrothed dead, she loses her memory and becomes a slave. Does she survive to go back to Ireland and her lost lord
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Summary: Time-honored classic romance whirlwind!
Review: This is the book that started my 20 year guilty pleasure. I was 20 years old and a lifelong reader when an old married lady handed me SKYE O'MALLEY. I thought "Boy, how bad will this be?!". Wow, was I in for a, um, thrill! I'm now 40 years old and married myself and this book still lives in my memory as an absolutely enthralling work of romance fiction.
Of course it's romance, and total escapism, but it was also total FUN!
I don't recommend this book to anyone under 21. You have to be aware of enough to understand that romance fiction is 99% pure fantasy.
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