The Lady's Tutor

The Lady's Tutor (The Lady's Tutor)

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An Education In Pleasure

Married young to a man hand-picked by her father, Elizabeth Petre is an ideal Victorian lady. She has borne two sons and endured sixteen years of selfless duty in a passionless marriage. Craving a man's loving touch yet loyal to her wedding vows, Elizabeth is determined to seduce her coldly indifferent husband. She knows of only one man who can teac...more
Paperback, 381 pages
Published August 1st 1999 by Zebra
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Kristen
3 to 3 1/ 2 stars

The Lady's Tutor is a well written, thought-provoking, sensual, and well researched book; however, I had a difficult time staying focused and interested in the plot. For some reason, it just didn't capture my attention the way The Lover or Gabriel's Woman did. That said, the sexual tension throughout this story was superbly done. I enjoyed this book but perhaps was not in the mood for its heaviness. I may revisit it again when I'm in a more receptive mood.
Eastofoz
This story was excellent! It starts so slowly, just barely giving you enough so that you hold your breath in hope that something will happen between Saphyre and Elizabeth making you turn those pages well past a “reasonable” reading hour.

Everything takes place around the lessons in seduction that delectable Lord Saphyre gives the morally upright Elizabeth but not once in the whole first half of the story does he lay a finger on her. The tutoring is conducted like teacher and pupil and the textboo...more
L8blmr
May 04, 2008 L8blmr rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: People who enjoyed "Passion", probably
I really enjoyed this book. Yes, it was very "clinical" (a description I've read by people hating it for this factor), somewhat like a "how-to" manual ... in the beginning. How else could the author handle a very experienced man teaching a barely experienced woman to seduce and beguile her husband in bed? However, things changed once the H/H began falling in love. And there was actually a well-developed subplot involving peripheral characters that was quite interesting as well. Add to all this a...more
Pamela(AllHoney)
As mentioned in previous reviews it starts off slow. I had mixed feelings about it. But overall it was a good read.
maricar
Rarely does a story like this ever stand above its own genre

from the first page to the last, everything is so hot-hot-hot! but beyond the sizzling scenes (and yes, they really DO sizzle...), one can find such a tender emotion coming from Ramiel. it was simply beautiful, no other word for it, to witness how he changed from simply being an instructor on the pleasures of the flesh to becoming the hero of Elizabeth.

Elizabeth is such a compelling woman. Full of complexities and undeniable yet gut-wr...more
Gloria75
Intenso,forte e a tratti sconvolgente... come sempre questa autrice non si limita alle scene di sesso (essendo un romanzo erotico) ma approfondisce il carattere, le passioni e i dolori dei protagonisti.
Qui la protagonista è la figlia del primo ministro e la moglie del cancelliere dello scacchiere, insomma una figura sempre sotto i riflettori, una figlia perfetta, una moglie modello ed un'amorevole madre...peccato che viva nel suo mondo dorato e non si renda conto di cosa succede intorno a lei, a...more
TheFountainPenDiva
Erotic Romance for Adults

Robin Schone has quickly become one of my favourite romance authors. She writes novels of emotional depth and searing sexuality, with characters who are not perfect in either body or spirit. Yet in every piece of fiction Ms. Schone writes has as its overall theme, the redemptive power of love.

Elizabeth is a woman typical of her era. She's the proper wife of a politician, the daughter of a politician, and the mother of two boys. She should be satisfied with her lot, and...more
Jess the Romanceaholic
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Michelle Kelly
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Crista
First of all, let me say that this is a difficult book to rate and review. There are parts of this book that deserve a 10 star rating in my opinion, but there are also components that left me feeling "dirty" and "horrified" and make me not recommend the book at all. I'll try not to include spoilers for those who will read this book after reading this review.

First the good. As far as sensuality, I've never read anything like this. Surprisingly this comes in the form of CONVERSATION. The couple d...more
Cam
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Azilys
May 10, 2013 Azilys rated it 5 of 5 stars
Shelves: sex
mamamia !! COUP DE COEUR
ceci est l'érotisme tel que je me le représentais, et punaiz quelle sensualité !

je "devais" lire Schone, c'est fait et je ne regrette pas. Pourtant les premières pages m'ont plutôt repoussé. En 1886, la femme du futur premier ministre et fille de l'actuel premier ministre (pour faire court), se rend en pleine nuit chez un homme connu pour être un talentueux libertin (mais bien sur de trèèèèèèèèèèèss mauvaise réputation) pour lui demander des leçons de séduction. L'objecti...more
Joy
WOW! I mean...WOW! What else can I say, this is the first Robin Schone book I've read and it took me to emotional heights and I'm really impressed I want to read more of her works.

Like the previous books which were worth reading, I hope I give justice to this one through this review. The storyline was a breath of fresh air, the book's tone was heavy, very little to almost no humor at all, and the characters were very well expounded.

This a story of a woman in a loveless marriage who wants to make...more
Manuela
Le storie di Robin Schone non lasciano mai indifferenti, e lo stesso accade con questo romanzo.
Rispetto ai due precedenti lavori della Schone che ho letto, questo l’ho trovato decisamente più romantico: non solo la storia d’amore in se stessa, ma anche le reazioni, le emozioni, le sensazioni suscitate le ho percepite più vere, spontanee, naturali, rispetto soprattutto a Il grido del desiderio. La Schone ha la grande capacità di rendere la sensualità anche solo con le parole e gli sguardi; mentre...more
Erin
When you want quality trash, I have learned that Robin Schone is the place to go. A friend of mine lent this to me after I told her I hadn't read any good trashy historical romance in ages, and I was skeptical. I mean, who can keep up with the Mary Jo Putney and Kathleen Woodiwiss love from my youth?

Robin Schone can, baby! For me, I need to have some emotional connection to the characters. I need them to be damaged and broken, and only the power of LOVE (and yes, sex) can fix them (because i'm a...more
Quinn
The Lady's Tutor reminded me a little bit of Passion by Lisa Valdez, in in so far as it was able to effectively combine graphic and at times wordy erotic scenes with very satisfying romance, set in an historical era. If you didn't like Passion, then odds are you may not like this one, either.

The premise sounded interesting and unusual - a Victorian lady, trapped in a passionless marriage but unwilling to betray her wedding vows, seeks assistance from the Bastard Sheik to teach her how to pleasur...more
DebbieLisa
This is the second book I've read by Robin Schone, she is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors in the Historical Romance fiction genre. Her stories are haunting and beautiful,her characters so real with real issues, real fears, real pain. Her attention to little details, like the cracking, hissing and spitting of wood as it burns in a fireplace add to the already intense atmosphere of her books. Her characters are not perfect, yet their flaws, external as well as internal make them believ...more
Victoria Vane
A mesmerizing and highly erotic Victorian set romance that deals with the deeper issues of feminine sexual repression of that time. This book is much more substantial than I anticipated and there is no actual sexual contact until 2/3 of the way through the book but the verbal seduction is mindblowing.

Summer
Wooohoooo! Yay for good steamy romance! This was totally as good as I was hoping it would be, definitely worthy of all the good reviews I've read for it. It had it's flaws and sluggish parts but as a whole I was really impressed. And a big thumbs up for an older heroine :)
Jennifer
While an enjoyable romance in some ways, this was just OK for me. The premise was interesting. The characters had promise at the outset. But then, I failed to connect with them or be very engaged by their story because, as some other reviewers have said, I found the language at times too... technical. I understand that the explicit talk is part of the loveplay for these characters, and maybe they didn't have enough handy euphemisms to go around. But all the technically accurate and explicit sex...more
Erica
I enjoyed this book. It's tagged under erotica, but I thought the book presented more than the mindless sex advertised in other books of this genre. It was a love story!

Some complained that the book started off too slowly, but I thought it was just right. The author balanced the tutor/pupil relationship quite nicely at the beginning. Overall, I enjoyed this read. Hot Arab protagonist? CHECK some reasonably good twists CHECK awesome female characters CHECK and omfg the chemistry CHECK CHECK CHECK...more
Wateena
Elizabeth Peter is a married woman with two sons. Elizabeth is no fool, she knows her husband has a mistress and she wants her husband to want her. So Elizabeth does the only thing she thinks will help, she goes to a man known for his ways in a woman's arm, the bastard son of an Arab Sheik, Ramiel Devington. Elizabeth wants him to teach her everything to turn her husband on.
But Ramiel is surprised to find that he wants to show her, but first he must find out the secrets that Elizabeth's husband...more
Maureen
This was the first book by Robin Schone that I had the sheer delight to read.
Elizabeth Petre, wife to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and daughter to the Prime Minister wants to learn how to seduce her husband and keep him from his mistress. She asks Ramiel, a half arab, half english lord, known as the bastard sheik to teach her,because it is common knowledge that he is a master in the art of lovemaking.An agreement is struck by the pair that although he will teach her, there will be no touching...more
Adrienne
Oh I'm trying deperately to put the words together for a review of how this book made me feel, for something so luscious and evocative I really do need to do it justice, but really don't think I can. I'm late coming to this book and reviewers before me have given details of the plot etc, so I'm not going to repeat what has already been said. What I will say tho' is this book had a profound affect on me..slightly shifted my way of thinking if you like.

This book was perfect for me erotic and sensu...more
April
This book was highly touted in a community of erotic romance readers, so I noted the title and author to give it a try. I will admit that this is better than most books I've read in this genre, especially most books in this genre that's also set in the same time period. The situations seem more plausible, even given the more conservative mores of the time.

I think it helped to have the heroine already be a married woman and a mother. It would not have worked to have her be a young woman just bein...more
Lemon
good book...mhmm but after reading more romance novels it seems pretty amateur now, i guess its true that the best never get the fame they deserve...ahem, the 37 year old Ramiel and the 33 year old Elizabeth are a turn off. Don't get me wrong I love Arabia. This just seemed to much about sex and ood...dialogue, meh its still not bad, I just wouldn't call it my fav nor would i call mrs.schone a talented romance writer. Ive read my sizzling books which blew my mind, ones with 20 year old female an...more
Amarilli73
Rispetto ad altri romanzi del genere erotico, la Schone scrive indubbiamente bene e crea un mondo elegante e pieno di fascino, unendo in più all'atmosfera inglese di fine '800 il richiamo della cultura araba. Onore al merito, poi, per tratteggiare eroine femminili "mature", ovvero non giovanissime ventenni, ma donne già adulte, spesso sposate e con figli, elaborando tutta una serie di sentimenti nuovi ed originali, che riescono ad avvicinarmi molto di più di altre eroine post-adolescenti (forse...more
Vikisha
This is the first novel I've read from Robin Schone and it won't be the last. This book effected me on a viseral level. Elizabeth's story is the story of so many women from the past, present and future. Being a loveless marriage, doing one's duty and finding that it's not all what it cracked up to me. Women are allowed to be mothers, grandmothers, daughters, and etc except being just a woman. There is adage known as Chi Ku. It means "eat or eating bitterness". It is a Chinese phrase for enduring...more
Aimee
I very rarely like a historical romance. I almost never LOVE one. This one I LOVED! The relationship between Ramiel and Elizabeth was beautiful. Separately, they were tortured in their own ways. There was such RAW emotion...and it was utterly believable! Not to mention that a few of the love scenes scorched!

I liked how the story stayed focused on the two of them and didn't wander like some other's have done. I'm so sick of a book that's in 4 and 5 different POV. I find it hard to stay connected...more
Sara
OMG! Wow! I was surprised and engaged. A cleverly crafted novel. It was very emotional at times reading the thoughts, spoken and unspoken words of the two main characters. I actually cried over some of Elizabeth's conclusions about herself after being rejected. There were so many facets to this story. For much of the book, it was scorching. I needed to fan myself over and over while I read this book and not because I was having pre-menopausal hot flashes. If only there were real men that actuall...more
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