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Scandalous Lovers (The Men and Women's Club #1)

by Robin Schone (Goodreads Author)

3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 · rating details · 296 ratings · 40 reviews

Witty, emotionally involving, and intensely sensual, the novels of Robin Schone have captured the erotic imaginations of readers everywhere. In "The Men and Women's Club," this USA Today bestselling author turns the heat up even higher, as she explores the very essence of desire.

Paperback, 453 pages

Published February 1st 2007 by Brava (first published January 1st 2007)

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Oct 25, 2008 Eastofoz rated it 3 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Readers looking for a historical with some erotica but not standard romance

Shelves: erotica, historical-regency

What an arduous read this was :-/ More than once I just wanted to put it down and start something else. It’s very well-written and if you’re looking at that alone it’s a 5 star book, but it’s listed as an erotic romance and I didn’t feel much of the romance.

The book reads more like historical fiction with erotic elements at times than romance. It focuses a lot on how women were basically treated like chattel in Victorian England –very scary and interesting but the romance part just fell flat. T...more

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Apr 29, 2009 TheFountainPenDiva rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: genre-erotic-romance, genre-historical-fiction, settings-victorian-england, theme-daring-romance, theme-non-traditional-romances, authors-robin-schone-rocks

It has been nearly six years since Ms. Schone's last novel 'Gabriel's Woman' and in that time the erotic romance genre has grown from a few paltry titles into one of today's hottest markets in women's fiction. E-books have popularized erotic romance, making them widely available as well as giving newer romance writers their first taste of publication. Even Harlequin, seeing the way of the wind, has gleefully jumped into this market with its Blaze and Spice lines.

With the popularity of this genr...more It has been nearly six years since Ms. Schone's last novel 'Gabriel's Woman' and in that time the erotic romance genre has grown from a few paltry titles into one of today's hottest markets in women's fiction. E-books have popularized erotic romance, making them widely available as well as giving newer romance writers their first taste of publication. Even Harlequin, seeing the way of the wind, has gleefully jumped into this market with its Blaze and Spice lines.

With the popularity of this genre, it is to be expected that some books which purport to be erotic romances concentrate heavily upon the erotic and leave the romance somewhere out of the final edit. Far from being a prude or a purist (because I do enjoy plain old erotica as well), I've found that these books attempt to out-kink their competition by throwing in as many sex scenes as they can encompassing practically every form of loveplay imaginable. However it is not just the sex that makes an erotic romance erotic. It is a skillful blending of plot and characters who come to life and become more than words on a page as well as the sexuality that makes an erotic romance not only worth reading, but keeping.

I own every book Ms. Schone has written as well as the two anthologies, Fascinated and Captivated and it is her two novellas in each--A Lady's Pleasure and A Man and A Woman--that I find myself re-reading simply because they're so passionate and true.

Ms. Schone's books are easily some of the most character-driven in any genre. One thing is that she has never written the standard and boring romance trope of perfect people with perfect bodies who get together and have perfect sex. In Scandalous Lovers she continues that tradition with two of the most `realistic" people to date. Frances Hart and James Whitcox are so much like everyday people that it's almost impossible to believe that they never lived. By the time I finished the book, not only did I believe, but hoped they found happiness together.

Frances Hart is truly every woman some time in her life who yearns and seeks out something more than just what society says should fulfill her. Frances is 49 (certainly not the typical nubile twenty-something heroine), a mother, a grandmother and a widow who needs to know that there is more to her life than that. She comes to London three months after her husband's death to find that something.

What she finds is The Men's and Women's Club (which was the original title of the novel), a group of people from all walks of life who get together to discuss equality between the sexes. One member of this unusual gathering, a barrister named James Whitcox whose life outside of the club has also been regulated by what society deems acceptable for a man, seeks more than the dry, analytical discourses that to him completely skirt around what he truly wants to know. When Frances accidentally stumbles upon their meeting, James is quick to ask her what a woman desires.

From that moment on, James and Frances become what society has never allowed them to be--a man and a woman who feel deeply and passionately. Together they discover what they've never known possible both sexually and emotionally as the rest of the members of the club struggle to make sense of their own growing desires and fears. The sex scenes between James and Frances are powerful, pulling the reader into these tender, intimate moments and making the reader feel every quiver and whisper against their skin. It's almost like reading about two people who are virgins, and in a way, they are. Some readers may find James' discovery of passion unbelievable considering his past liaisons, but sex is no substitute for finding one's soul mate and learning to live.

It is Frances' eldest son David, seeing the changes London has wrought in his mother, is quick to castigate her for not accepting her lot as both a widow and a mother and decides that in order to "help" her, signs a lunacy order to have Frances put away in a sanitarium until she comes to her senses. Frances, hurt and betrayed refuses to submit meekly and decides to sue her own son for her emancipation. Sad to say this was an accepted practice in Victorian society for those women who didn't have the means to live their own lives.

One of the most memorable lines in Scandalous Lovers comes from Mrs. Jenkins, Frances' sixty-six year old housekeeper whom she catches in an intimate moment with the butler, Mr. Denton--"A woman's got one life: she's got to reach out and grab it with both hands or it'll pass her by and leave nothing but a smelly old fart in her face."

My only complaint with this book was that Frances' trial ended too soon and seemed to have been rushed. Though each of the members testified, it would have been fascinating to find out how their testimony changed them afterwards.

That being said, Robin Schone is the standard by which every novel that considers itself to be an erotic romance should be held to. Her books have always been of the highest caliber; beautiful, poetic and unashamedly sexual with characters anyone of us can relate to on some level. Her stories are complex and make the reader consider their own beliefs towards sexuality, especially sexuality that isn't about the young and beautiful. Ms. Schone writes as she lives--a champion of female sexuality and her characters, though from a bygone age, still have much to show us in that we may have come a long way from the repressive Victorian era, but it doesn't take much to slide us back. And in the end, we all have the right to love.
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Jan 17, 2013 ☂ ℬrandi rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: french-novels, historical-regency, read-2013

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One reviewer described this book as a "an arduous read" and for the first 30 chapters (200ish pages) I would agree. I found myself reading slowly to fully comprehend the complexities of each sentence. The book is very well written with very strong and effective details. When the H/h are finally physically intimate the degree of complexity is greatly lessened and it becomes a much less challenging read. The book offers a great deal of intrigue and eroticism with lengthy development for the H/h...more ❤❤❤

One reviewer described this book as a "an arduous read" and for the first 30 chapters (200ish pages) I would agree. I found myself reading slowly to fully comprehend the complexities of each sentence. The book is very well written with very strong and effective details. When the H/h are finally physically intimate the degree of complexity is greatly lessened and it becomes a much less challenging read. The book offers a great deal of intrigue and eroticism with lengthy development for the H/h's relationship, as well as a broad array of details about minor characters. It's unlike any other book of this genre that I've read and was meaningful and successful in so many ways. It also had a few deficiencies that could be reader specific, but weighed heavily on my rating.

The cover is deceiving as it makes this book appear to be more contemporary than not. However, the story takes place in Victorian England around the late 1880s, and while it is historical and erotic I wouldn't necessarily classify it as romantic. At least not romantic enough. The story begins when the recently widowed, 49-year-old Frances Hart walks into a private meeting of the Men and Women's Club: a club that discusses human sexuality and related issues. Frances is uneducated and from the country but she knows what it is to be female and that's the only requirement she must meet to answer the question posed to her. James Witcox asks "What does a women desire?" then proceeds to question Frances more deeply and eventually she responds. In a time when women are still considered property and their wants, needs and desires are restricted and controlled by men, this Men and Women's Club lays the groundwork for a story that is enthralling, compelling, erotic, frightening and integral to what it means to be a man or women.

One of the downfalls of this novel resides in the dialogue between the H/h. It was stilted sometimes, bizarre and incomplete others. It made the parts when James and Frances were together feel very odd and sometimes foreboding. Nearly every time the couple is in the same room with one another they have their hands on each others genitals and refer to their intimacy as being or going or coming home. It was uncomfortable and abrupt when I think it was meant to be comforting. They constantly asked each other what the other felt when climaxing or how someone tasted or if they were thinking of them when they touched their self, etc. Those questions weren't so bad but there were others that made me wince when they kept being repeated. It wasn't erotic exactly but I'm not sure how to classify it. Sometimes it felt like a deep commitment and connection between two people where no topic is off limits. Other times it felt lewd and lecherous and like they mutually used each other. Ultimately what these moments created was a sometimes passionless, unromantic and clinical "romance." For as much as James vowed internally that he'd never leave Frances I was never sure if this was more than just two lonely people finding sexual compatibility and contentment (for the first time and) for the time being. Maybe, if that's all it was it was meant to be then it would have even been enough for them, but not for me as a reader. I think it was more, much more, but it I wasn't always convinced. And though I enjoyed this story and many of those moments the H/h shared, there was too much of the abruptness and awkwardness to overlook.

There are several episodes where something the couple has done in the past becomes an inside joke of sorts (dinosaurs, mussels, etc.) I thought those were very well done and effective. I absolutely loved the part on page 385 when Frances is drinking brandy and James tells her to taste it properly. Properly being from his mouth. Which is how they share brandy in one great scene earlier and it was so simple, clever, sensual, erotic and satisfying to read. It reinforced that connection between the couple that was sometimes sketchy and it spoke of the ease they felt in each others presence. Just a great little scene that made me very happy.

All in all I think this book accomplishes its goal. Some reviewers said it was smutty or trashy but I couldn't disagree more. There were moments when I wasn't sure where intentions lie but there was never a moment when I doubted that the author wanted me to see this relationship as one of the deepest and most fulfilling for these two characters. At times the relationship was enviable and was made up of an intimacy that most people will never know. It was beautiful and remarkable and animal at its best. It was detached and exhausting at worst.(less)

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Aug 19, 2007 Tory rated it 1 of 5 stars Recommends it for: no one. I would be embarrassed to do so.

I bought and read this book because it said something like 'best selling erotic fiction' on the cover. I'm interested in what the general population considers erotic.

This, though, just made me wildly uncomfortable. I know it's stereotypical that women like to talk. About everything. I mean, I can even see how real discussion of feelings and sensations could bring lovers closer together. I'm not such a good "talker" myself, but I can see why it's attractive.

That's all fine and well, but I canno...more

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Jan 14, 2013 Amarilli73 rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Mentre gli altri romanzi della Schone mi erano parsi gradevoli ma non eccelsi, questo (orribilmente spaccato a metà nell'edizione italiana) mi ha letteralmente stregato, con uno stile conciso, tagliente, crudo, ma quasi ipnotico.

L'abilità dell'autrice sta nel tenere in piedi e nell'amalgamare tre diversi piani: le vicende del Club degli Uomini e delle Donne, con i loro membri che a poco a poco svelano debolezze, segreti e troveranno (forse) un po' di felicità; la st...more

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Jul 27, 2011 Christine Strowbridge rated it 5 of 5 stars

Love, love love love!! I am in deep love with Robin Schone and her books. I can't stop reading them, and I have to have more when I'm done.

James and Frances...beautiful. This is not your regular "gorgeous young woman falling in love with a dashing no good rake", oh, no, this was such a real story. Fourty-nine year old, mother of 5 and grandmother, Frances finding herself AND finding love with 47 year old James. It sucks when you can't find words to describe such an intense and deeply moving sto...more

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Apr 30, 2011 Jess rated it 5 of 5 stars

Nothing about the outside appearance of this book would suggest it would hold anything but the most superficial potential for emotional engagement, let alone incisive social commentary about women's rights and roles in Victorian England. That being said, don't be deceived by reviews like mine into thinking the sexual activity of the main characters isn't discussed in smoking-hot detail--it's rightfully published as "erotic romance," going considerably beyond your average bodice-ripper in terms o...more Nothing about the outside appearance of this book would suggest it would hold anything but the most superficial potential for emotional engagement, let alone incisive social commentary about women's rights and roles in Victorian England. That being said, don't be deceived by reviews like mine into thinking the sexual activity of the main characters isn't discussed in smoking-hot detail--it's rightfully published as "erotic romance," going considerably beyond your average bodice-ripper in terms of explicitness and extent of the love scenes. But somehow, the author manages to weave the two strands of the story together with considerable dexterity. The trick is that the characters explore, and ultimately transcend, their personal and societal limitations by means of exploring their sexuality.

Despite my brain's tendency to collect random bits of information, like the names of authors whose romances I've read over the last 20 or so years of my life, like lint in a dryer screen, without discrimination or regard for available information capacity, I don't often go searching out more books by a single author. There are maybe 12-15 romance authors on my "auto-read" list, and thank the gods that they're prolific. The main way that an author gets on that list is by writing characters that I want to know more about, or better yet, setting up such a good network of characters that I want to follow other story lines after that book leaves a particular couple in a satisfactory place, while at the same time satisfying my inexplicable urge for well-written smut. I had yet to read a book classified as "erotic romance" (it's a sex-to-story ratio thing, as well as a sort of rating system so readers are fairly warned about the sexual vocabulary they're going to encounter. In case you were wondering.) that laid down a sufficiently intriguing, creative, or articulate network to warrant further exploration. But this author has. I'll be curious to see whether succeeding books will justify that attention.(less)

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Feb 11, 2011 Manuela rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: venduto, storico

Giudicare un libro solo dalla prima metà è riduttivo, ma già qualcosa dello stile e della narrazione si può dire.
Senza dubbio lo considero un passo avanti rispetto a Il grido del desiderio, che mi era piaciuto pochissimo, ma comunque sono molte le cose che non mi convincono.
Interessante tutta la prima parte delle sedute del Club degli uomini e delle donne, in cui si trattano argomenti, come la realtà delle donne del XIX secolo, che vedevano il sesso come un dovere, come un atto di sottomission...more Giudicare un libro solo dalla prima metà è riduttivo, ma già qualcosa dello stile e della narrazione si può dire.
Senza dubbio lo considero un passo avanti rispetto a Il grido del desiderio, che mi era piaciuto pochissimo, ma comunque sono molte le cose che non mi convincono.
Interessante tutta la prima parte delle sedute del Club degli uomini e delle donne, in cui si trattano argomenti, come la realtà delle donne del XIX secolo, che vedevano il sesso come un dovere, come un atto di sottomissione, e il piacere era visto come qualcosa di alieno al mondo femminile e che non doveva essere condiviso tra uomini e donne, tutti temi toccati troppo spesso in maniera superficiale nei romance e non solo. Ho respirato l'angoscia e l'ignoranza attraverso i racconti e le domande di Frances e di tutte le donne del Club. E forse proprio questa è stata la parte più interessante e originale.
Anche l'infelicità di James viene narrata con accuratezza, e probabilmente rispetto a Il grido del desiderio ho riscontrato anche una maggiore cura nel descrivere le sensazioni e le emozioni, più vivide e spontanee.
Per il resto ritrovo gli stessi difetti che non avevo digerito nel primo romanzo pubblicato: troppo sesso parlato in maniera poco naturale, termini quasi ginecologici usati in modo continuo e fuori luogo, che spesso tolgono mordente alla scena in sè stessa, troppa verbosità spinta usata senza una reale giustificazione nel contesto e nelle situazioni in cui viene utilizzata. E poi alcune scene davvero al limite del buongusto, in cui a un discorso profondissimo e delicato su sensazioni ed emozioni dei due protagonisti, seguiva nella frase subito successiva l'uso di termini volgari e inutilmente espliciti, facendo perdere di intensità a scene che avrebbero meritato maggiore attenzione al sentimento, tutte cose che ho trovato stridenti in buona parte della seconda metà del romanzo.
Una parte di colpa la attribuisco agli editori, che hanno deciso in maniera sconsiderata di pubblicare prima Il grido del desiderio, che è successivo cronologicamente: senza dubbio avrei potuto apprezzare di più la storia di Frances e James in quel frangente, se avessi letto prima questo romanzo, invece allora non ero potuta entrare in sintonia con i due co-protagonisti, non potendo conoscere tutti i retroscena della loro storia che ora in parte conosco.
A questo punto aspetto la seconda parte per sviluppare un giudizio più completo, ma in generale la Schone è un'autrice senza dubbio interessante, ma che mi delude lì dove dovrebbe invece dimostrare il suo potenziale.

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Nov 28, 2010 Beowulfwulf rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: erotica, historic-romance, nineteenth-century, spinster-governess-widow, favorites

10 stars if I could. That one is a masterpiece, IMO.
Lu en VO. Oh mon Dieu, quelle merveille que ce roman ! Définitivement un keeper ! Robin Schone n'a pas sa pareille pour créer des personnages et une intrigue sortant de l'ordinaire. Oubliez les petites vierges habituelles, qu'elles soient lady, vikings ou filles de pasteur à la sensualité convenue. Oubliez les héros tellement virils, beaux, riches et musclés qu'on n'y croit plus, oubliez les rebondissements habituels et les grosses ficelles (ou...more

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Feb 26, 2012 Searock marked it as to-read · review of another edition

Shelves: wishlist-too-much-cake

Penguin must be on crack!
$14.99 for the kindle book, egad.
I would have to be selling crack to afford this book.
*Great rec's
*My peeps loved it.
*This is an author I really want to try.
*Its in my favorite genre (the one in which all books are eventually purchased and gobbled up with great enthusiasm).
But!
I still cannot buy this book.
I want this book!!
I will never purchase this book at this price.
To do so would be an act of insanity, in my opinion.

I want to rant more, but have run out of words.

And f...more

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Nov 20, 2011 Cristina Contilli added it · review of another edition

"Quando una donna altruista sviluppa improvvisamente un senso di sé coloro che sono abituati ad essere al centro della sua attenzione possono diventare insicuri."

Due innamorati cinquantenni sono insoliti in un romance (l'unico precedente che mi ricordo è il protagonista maschile di Charlene della Melville che però era un'artista ed era molto meno compassato dell'avvocato presente in questo libro) e soprattutto una protagonista di 49 anni vedova e con un figlio già grande è davvero una scelta inn...more

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Feb 19, 2012 Meredith rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: english-historical, erotic, owned, romance

I've always been fascinated by the late 19th century.

What I like about this period is that I think it has so many similarities to the late 20th century. Both periods experienced rapid technological change--not just improvements on technology, but entirely new things that completely changed people's lives. Electricity. Refrigeration. Women's Lib vs. Computers. Cell Phones. My hateful Blackberry. It was an exciting time to live in, and also an awful one--read anything on American immigration in t...more

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Dec 28, 2010 Manuela rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: storico, venduto

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Individuo sempre gli stessi difetti in quest’autrice. La Schone è senza dubbio una scrittrice capace, con un suo stile peculiare, ma per la terza volta sono costretta a rimarcare le stesse mancanze, o forse sarebbe meglio definirle sovrabbondanze.
Forse in questa seconda parte c’è meno sesso, più amore e più dramma rispetto alla prima parte, ma si ricade sempre negli stessi difetti: sono troppe le scene di sesso gratuito e senza coerenza nel senso del racconto, messe lì quasi a forza, dove invec...more

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Nov 26, 2010 KatLynne rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: g-historical-romance, keeper, favorite-treasures, g-erotic-romance, smokin-hot-steamy, 2009-reads

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A Keeper! I loved this book! This was my first book by Robin Schone and I now own them all!

Schone's books has the most well developed characters. Frances Hart is 49, a recent widow, mother, and grandmother. She has dedicated her life to caring for her home, husband and family. Her life is full of details and she has never experience passion. She yearns for passion and love. Now, a widow of three months, she is seeking more than what society says should fulfil her and travels to Victorian...more

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Feb 10, 2013 Lemon rated it 1 of 5 stars

I read the lady's tutor which now seemed pretty rookie compared to recent romances I've read, nonetheless it had hot scenes.

This book is uh...a turn off from the start and kinda changed my perception of romance, i just skimmed through, Get this...a 49 year old man and a 50 year old woman..nothing more to be said. I'll stick to younger "books" than you very much....

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Feb 25, 2010 Sara rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: romance, historical

This was billed as erotic romance and it had it's moments. It was a really interesting look (almost clinical) at desire and passions between men and women of the Victorian era. The historical factoids, the dry, clinical experimentation with sex, the murder trial, followed by a civil trial involving the characters all made it feel almost academic. The romance was almost an afterthought.

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Apr 12, 2009 PT rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: romance

Another keeper. I am amazed with the various character types that she is able to keep coming up with.
I think this was my favorite so far. I find it appropriate that they met a sex discussion group. I enjoyed the scenes with the group. It does seem like it easier to discuss things with strangers that it is with friends and family.

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Aug 31, 2008 Jenne rated it 3 of 5 stars

This was another one recommended by RUSQ in their romance genre study article.
I was expecting kind of a generic historical, but, um, not quite!

It's about a 49-year-old woman around the turn of the century, and how she explores her sexual identity with a barrister she meets when she accidentally walks into a meeting of a club for discussing sex-related topics...

There's a very definite feminist theme, and well, I was reading it in the doctor's office and had to stop because it was becoming a littl...more

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Jan 03, 2011 Denise rated it 2 of 5 stars

I didn't like this book at all, read about half and gave up. The writing to me was just too flat. I couldn't feel any emotion at all in this book. The story could have been great, but because of the 1 dimensional characters it couldn't interest me enough to stay with it.

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Apr 30, 2012 Pam rated it 5 of 5 stars

Wow, what a book. Very good insights as to how women were treated back then. Made you feel like you were right there with them when all of this was going on. I very much enjoyed this book.

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Jan 31, 2011 Alina rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: erotic-romance

I think Robin Schone is one of the best authors in Erotic Romance (the genre). Not because her books are extremely titillating or arousing, but because they are thoughtful, and tackle subjects that are not usually addressed by other authors.

My favorite of hers is still The Lady's Tutor, but this one is also very good. The protagonists are 49 and 47 years old, with children, and in the case of Frances, with grandchildren. While this book should probably be shortened by about a quarter (it's dial...more

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Jul 26, 2011 Christine added it

This is not your mother's romance novel! With that said, it was a very good storyline and lots of erotic imagery. Well done Robin Schone!

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Aug 25, 2012 Afton rated it 2 of 5 stars

so so incredibly odd. all over the place, erotic in the way a drunken fumbling with a stranger might be. not at all romantic.

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Oct 23, 2011 Summer rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: erotica, historical-romance, hot-and-steamy, romance, victorian

Robin Schone's writing is always lovely. So far every book I've read by her I was immediately sucked in by the writing. In Scandalous Lovers it's not different, although it was an interesting mix to make the main couple older than the usual. I rather liked that aspect of it too. I kind of felt like this wasn't her strongest book and I have to say even for me some of the language the writer used here either made me roll my eyes or was just plain ridiculous, particularly in the sex scenes. It was...more

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Mar 30, 2012 Kim-wilts-for-kilts marked it as to-read

Kindle edition is $14.99! HOLY CRAP! Guess I will be looking for another book.

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Apr 22, 2012 ~Lei ~ Reading Is An Adventure~ rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: a-ebook, a-length-over-400-pages-epic, from-amazon, a-series, body-redhead, character-lawyer, character-older-couple, genre-historical, sex-erotic, sexcontent-masturbation, sexual-mix-m-f, sexcontent-sexual-journey, a-read-in-2012-ereader, content-2nd-chance, genre-romance, outcome-favorites, outcome-hea, sex-good-and-smutty, sex-vanilla-with-a-twist, sexcontent-anal-play-sex, sexcontent-awakening-or-acceptance, sexcontent-messy, sexcontent-oral-play-sex, sexcontent-cumeating-felching

My second Robin Schone book and not my last, by any means.

Vixenne's review is excellent and comprehensive so I can't really add anything to it.

This is a beautifully-written, very intimate love story of an older couple in Victorian times who are in the right place in the right frame of mind to find and recognize each other. Two people trying to find a loving connection and acceptance, a home with and for each other.

And ironically, these two people affected other Club members enough for them to m...more

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Jul 15, 2012 Pam Godwin rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: 5-star-romance

Historical romance is NOT my thing. Too much bodice ripping for my tastes. So, why did this book tug, rip and pull at me? The 1880's women's movement is something I didn't quite appreciate until I read this. Schone poured these pages with historical details and emotional angst that made me angry, sympathetic and, in the end, very appreciative of the liberties I enjoy today. Even more, she brought very real problems related to couples over fifty. A nice change from the pert, naive twenty-somethin...more

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Feb 26, 2012 Michelle [Helen Geek] marked it as to-read

Nook price $15 on 02/26/2012 [not happenin']

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Jun 15, 2010 Jenny rated it 5 of 5 stars

Such a good book---loved the charactors

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Nov 06, 2010 Mssroy is currently reading it Recommends it for: yes

Recommended to Mssroy by: friends

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE. Great reading.

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