i just cnt relate to the fact that hero is already engaged and want to make heroine his mistress. Its crap.

this was horribly racist and othering. I know it's old, but still. Ugh.

modern things in the bk-platinum-blond hair.the last straw.made a big stink.made no bones about it.
i cant stand when there are modern expressions in historical bks.
-im very disappointed to find out that the guy is actually an english earl &not an arab as we've been led to believe.i thought this book would be taking place in the desert.&that the guy would be an arab.cause you never find books like that.
so he's seeing one of the servants.how lovely.
comments like these drive me up the wall.&raise More...

I would have given it 2 stars if it wasn't for the girl. She was delightful and I felt like I completely understood why she did what she did. She was entitled to it. And yet, after all she'd been through, her heart was still kind and good and innocent. I loved the way she was portrayed, and how she felt guilty after the assassination attempt at Derek's life when she only tried to help, how she still loved Jamil after all that she thought he'd done and her uninhibited show of love when she finall More...

I lost sleep over reading this book! There is just something about bad boys who think they are sucseptible to feelings of love towards one special woman! And when they get that epiphany is just priceless!! This is true for Derek Sinclair. He was born into a world where monogomy is no existent and women were purchased for men's sexual entertainment. He is removed from this place and placed in 19th century England where these pratices are done in a different way. His ideals remain the unchanged: h More...

It has been a long time since I've read anything by Johanna Lindsey. My first attempt at her romances was A Pirate's Love which I wasn't partial to. Upon the recommendation of authors, Kresley Cole and Gena Showalter (reading The Darkest Facts about Gena Showalter's Lords of the Underworld series) I decided to give this book and several others a chance.

I was pleasantly surprised even though I still feel like Chantalle was tricked into sleeping with Derek in this book. Still there was something w More...

This one of Johanna Lindsey’s best outside the Malory saga. Chantelle Burke is a head-strong, beautiful woman. Her father has died leaving her guardian, a wastrel, trying to take her money by forcing her hand in marriage. She is fleeing to go back to her aunt, and she is kidnapped on the shore of England. She tries to escape and is recaptured and finds herself on a Turkish ship bound for sale. She is horrified at the prospect of being sold as a slave for someone’s harem. She is horrified at Jami More...

I purchased this book on Ebay in a "lot" of other Historical Romances. I had read two other Johanna Lindsey novels and liked both of them. However, this one sat on my shelf for a good while. I am trying to go all digital, so I'm finally getting some of my older books out to read. I thought Silver Angel would be either a Western or Pirate themed novel that Johanna Lindsey is famous for. I have never read a romance novel about Harems etc. Copyrighted in 1988, I knew this was a popular theme during More...

HIGHLY entertaining old-skool romance. I have a soft spot for romances written prior to political correctness and current editorial fashion (perspective slips from character to character without a blink--and guess what? It wasn't distracting to me--as a reader. I found it less tedious and more informative). The hero and heroine don't meet until well into a good third of the book, so the characters are well-established prior to the romance. Although the hero is half-English, the majority of the s More...

A very interesting novel of twim brothers who were separated as children. One borther was raised by his grandfather, an English Marquis. The other, older by just minutes became a Turkish Dey (ruler). The book follows the adventure and culture as the English brother returns to the land of his birth to assist his brother in finding his brother Jamil's would-be assassin. They trade places and Kasim (Derek) falls in love with the english girl bought for him by his brother to be his concubine during More...

I really enjoyed this one from start to finish (I've discovered that I've a weakness for harem BRs).

However, I do have a bone to pick with it:

After all the attempted assassination drama (which led the protagonists to one another), we come to find out the who/what/why behind it and it was really, really weak. In fact, it was rather eyeroll-worthy, especially with how it was all resolved. I won't go into details (you'll have to read the book, dahlinks), but suffice to say that I'm not a fan of wra More...

"Silver Angel" was one of the few books Johanna Lindsey wrote that I could really get into. It was something different then what I normally would've read, and I'm very glad I decided to give it a shot. Her character Chantelle is very strong willed and courageous as she faces getting abducted, and Derek is very compassionate and loyal to his twin whom he travels away from his homeland to go take his place as ruler. It wrapped me in it's story and I couldn't put it down until I knew how their stor More...

In a new setting, somewhere out and away from the ballrooms of London, you arrive to Barikah as a... slave. At least that's what happened to our heroine, Chantelle Burke. An Englishwoman caught on the coast of her home by Turkish Pirates! No time to protest she was brought onto the ship and taken away immediately... The one who comes to her "rescue" is none other than the mighty Pasha.

Keep in mind this was set in Barikah, The Barbary Coast 1796 . As you read there will be lots of things that you More...

Baru pertama kali baca Johanna Lindsey yang cerita HR di timur tengah, Turki tepatnya...

Chantelle, tokoh cewe kita kali ini, mau dijodohin sama walinya yang tamak, jadi dia kabur dari rumahnya... bukannya berhasil dia kabur, yang ada malah dia diculik dan dibawa ke timur tengah buat dijual jadi budak.

Pas di kapal, diperiksa dia, ternyata masih perawan, jadinya dia dijual jadi harem ke penguasa setempat, namanya Jamil...

Ada 4 hirarki di dunia per-harem-an...
1. harem yang bahkan ga disadari kebera More...

Barikah, Barbary Coast and then England 1796

The hero Derek/Kasim is 29 and the heroine Chantelle/Shahar is 19. This story was wonderful, I loved it!! The end was a bit rushed, but I still loved it anyhow. There is just something about those kidnapped and put in a harem books I love!

(view spoiler)[ So you have Chantelle running away from home in the night to keep from being forced to marry an old man. You also have a Dey from Barikah who is trying to be killed. He enlists his twin brother's help. So a ship com (hide spoiler)] More...

Not a newsflash that I usually dislike Johanna Lindsey books. The heroines in her early stuff are screaming brats or brain-deficient morons, and her heroes are wee little cardboard cutouts that stomp and growl and cross that line that divides grrr-worthy alphas from enraged psycho-babies sitting in their diaper gravy.

But I really liked Silver Angel, for the most part. It started out a lot like many old bodice rippers that have the hero and heroine separate for many pages before they meet up (her More...

Chantelle Burke is running away from her relatives who plan on marrying her off to some old man. By the sea she is suddenly grabbed and thrown into a boat and than brought to a ship. She soon does not understand what is all happening to her and before she knows it she is brought into a strange world and culture...to be sold. Next things she knows, she is part of a harem.
Derek Sinclair lives in England, his twin brother Jamil is the Dey of Barikah. When a messenger arrives with a coded message, D More...

What an awful book. I picked it up figuring that while I never really love any of Lindsay's books, they always at least moderately entertain me. Not the case with this one. I guess I don't like romances that take place in harems, but I was willing to give this one a shot. Chantelle is an heiress but not yet of age, and her greedy guardian is trying to force her to marry a stranger. She tries to flee and is captured by white slavers. Her new master, however, is actually an Englishman temporarily More...

The different setting was nice. I haven't read much Johanna Lindsey but I enjoyed her writing style. Wasn't great. Wasn't bad. The ending was predictable and I saw it coming early on.

I liked that the book wasn't politically correct as so many books are now. The heroine fought her captivity but wasn't willing to die for her freedom. The hero took what he wanted. He didn't always think of her first and disregard his own needs as so many modern romances do (Catherine Anderson, for example). He see More...

Just like other Lindsey's books... with a drop dead georgeous hero and a beautiful heroine. A cheesy, simple storyline, but who cares? That's not what I'm looking for in romance novel.

What I didn't like is harem description in Turki's world. As if it's a custom in Muslim's world. Heck, no! It's a country tradition, not related to religion. And yes, it's just privileged to the riches, who can buy as many slaves as he want.

Anyhow, I like Defy Not The Heart better than this novel.

There were definitely things I liked about the book. The overall story line, richness of descriptions, and that it is overall well told. I liked most characters quite well. The author imparts humanity to everyone and you get compassion for the villains as well as the heroes.

But the lead character eventually got on my nerves. I liked that she was feisty, but it was a bit overdone to the point of being selfish and juvenile. I found myself rolling my eyes at her more and more as the book progressed More...

I love this book. I know it is politically incorrect and everybody form the feminists till the day-to-day [normal] women will have a field day with this one.
I liked the hero :D and his assumption that he could keep the heroine as a mistress and his childhood friend to marry :D He really was so... hopeful[yep, that's the word :))]?

Didn`t like it at all! Couldnt even finish it...i finally had to put the book down. As a muslim myself i HATED the desrcription of the turks and muslims. As if all muslim men are barbaric and harems are common and bigamy is common. I can go on and on about the misconception...WHAT I HATED THE MOST! THEY USED A VERSE OF THE QURAN TO RELATE TO ISLAM AND WIFE BEATING!!!!!!!Do your reasearch and youll know its wrong! Pissed me off...

I first read this book when I ws in middle school, while it ws great then I skipped over a bit here and there for lack of understanding. Reading it again has brought a new appreciation for the heroine's plight. I very much enjoyed that the hero was someone real people could relate to and that it was not politically correct.

What an awful book this is.It's just too boring for my taste,infact the story was so awful i felt like a fool reading it.As soon as i completed this book i felt like drowsing into coma or to bang my head against a wall or to scream in frustration.This book has no chemistry no story line nothing,it's just waste of your time and nothing. The hero was the biggest looser i have read before and the heroine was hot headed fool,their chemistry was mediocre and nothing interesting to mention about this More...

It was an ok book but i think other readers might have a problem because of the long introduction...which i can sooooooooooooooooooooo do with out but it started picking up after a while so it wasn't much of a bad read. love desert romance so not bad 3.85 stars

So Totally Delicious, When 2 people are supposed to be together and they have to go through so much even though they both deny it at the start..

Just when you think things cant get any worse for Chantelle it does.. but the ending is wonderful

DNF, I couldn't get into this story at all, it wasn't anything like I thought it would be and its taking too long to get to what's described on the back cover. I hope her other books are better than this.

Silver Angel, Johanna Lindsey
The English Derek Sinclair takes his brother’s place, the Dey of Barikah his twin brother. He is the ultimate alpha meeting his lady as Pasha the ruler, then as an English lord.

Definitely one of her best books! I loved it! You just can't put it down !! It was one of the books you get connected to from first page to last! Definitely one of my favorites and highly recommended books!