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from the Bodice Ripper Readers Anonymous group.
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Sans wrote: "I saw a great license plate holder on the way home last night: "If you're gonna ride my ass, at least pull my hair a little!""LOL! I love it!
Congratulations to Carolyn! 8 books! Whew!
I can't wait to start this!!!! Great review Jeanine! To bad it was such a disappointment for you. I am looking forward to just checking this out and see for myself what all the fuss is about. I am going to try to pick it up tonight or tomorrow!
Karla wrote: "I bailed on Rapture after a sluggish-paced 284 pages. It took me 7 days to get that far, and the plot and characterizations had been so slight that I didn't look forward to plodding ..."I have never read this author so I can't say for sure, but I have gotten the impression that Rapture was a bit of an offshoot for her, different from her regular style. Too bad it didn't grab you :( Bummer
I ordered my book I am going to read for this a few days ago These Golden Pleasures! I can't wait till it get's here! But I think I am going to read Devil's embrace first so it might be a little while before I get to it.
FYI- moving this to the "Help! Looking for..." folder
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Well the hero has left for a sea voyage and we are lead to believe he is being involved in less honorable endeavors. The heroine has been labeled a witch who is clearly breeding devil spawn, stoned and abused and forced to live alone as a hermit by her puritan community. So I think I am going to stick it out and see where this goes! In the beginning it just was not what I was expecting. I have been known to pick up a nice regency with the whole drawingroom to ballroom to bedroom rutine. I don't mind 'nice' heros. Just was not what I was expecting from this so I was starting to get pissed.
But it's looking up so I'm going to stay the course!
I started my pirate book this week Pirate in My Arms on page 60 or so.... OMG! This guy is the absolute opposite of what a pirate hero should be! If I wanted to read about a well mannered nice guy with a strong sense of honor who picks flowers for the girl and asks her family if he can court her I would be reading... I don't know, not a pirate book!!! Not even a forced seduction in this one, she kisses him (because she is too naive and sweet to think it will have any effect on him, just trying to get his attention to make another man jealous) and then just goes along with his gently removing her cloths and worshiping her body. What??? No fighting him off, no slaps in the face, no screaming 'I hate you' or 'you are the last man I would ever lie with!' or some such nonsense! When he realizes she was a virgin, he immediately feels the need to offer to marry her!!! When she refuses because she just knows her family would not approve he then proceeds to follow her around like a lost puppy dog trying to win her heart!
I am giving this maybe another 40 pages or so, and if this does not start getting good I am moving on to Devil's Embrace to try and scrub all the sweetness and politeness from my mind!
Karla wrote: "This now begs for a graphic of the BR spectrum. "Tame" to "OMG, my eyes! MY EYES!""There are shades of BR-ishness that is for sure! I think the unapologetic kidnapping (and refusing to release the heroine) and the near rape (you don't really see even a whiff of rape, not even a mere thought of it often in modern historical romances..... maybe by the villain but even then, not often) are the two big things that put this one pretty firmly in BR territory in my mind, but maybe just barely. Good for beginners who are not sure if BR's are really for them I guess I would say.
Hey, maybe we should have a 'good for beginners' shelf on the group bookshelf.... I think I will add that.
Well I finished this on Monday night. I always feel like I need to let a book settle in my mind before I go writing reviews or commenting but I never really get my thoughts in order until I actually start writing about it so I guess I should just go for it right away.Anyway.... in this case I think it was a bad idea because well it just really was not all that memorable! Ha! Three chapters into my next book and I have forgotten all about Jamie and what's-her-name (really, what's her name? I want to say Clair but I know that's not right! LOL)
Now having said that, I have really enjoyed both of the Lindsey's I have read. Nice enjoyable easy reads. I know some people said they thought it got kinda slow in the middle but I didn't have that reaction. I was interested the whole way through. I like all the dialog and I like the easy prose. I was curious about the whole 'who re-started the feud' thing and really didn't have it figured out until the end. And I liked finding out how the feud started to begin with and I didn't see that coming either (well not exactly anyway). I couldn't read to many of her books in a row but I know I will pick up another at some point, probably after a heavy read when my brain needs a break. I enjoyed this like I enjoyed The Conqueror. It's not the best, not the type that will stick with me, but I just kinda liked it. It entertained me and I enjoyed reading it!
On another note, I think someone needs to defend Lindsey BR status! I would put her on the tamer end but I think Jamie was an alpha! Maybe not an alph-hole but and alpha none the less. He was stubborn and demanding refusing to let her leave and all. I didn't get the impression that he would do anything what's-her-name wanted. I see lot's of fights for power in that marriage and I think he would win most of them with her stomping her feet and locking herself in some room a whole lot.
So here is my Lindsey BR checklist (inspired by Jeanines awesome BR reviews)
hero peeping on naked heroine- check
kidnapping- double check
near rape- check
heroine locks herself in her room-check
hero kicks in door to locked room-check
hero having sex with non-consensual sleeping heroine- check
hero near death- check
death bead confession of love- check
crazy older lady relative- check
revelation of grandparents hanky panky (i.e. family drama)- check
Seems like there might be a few more good examples of BR goodness but they are not coming to mind (not that memorable, ha!). Tame for a BR, but still a BR I think. Anyway there is my two cents. I gave it 3 stars and I enjoyed it enough to pick up another Lindsey so there you go!
Ah! Sheena! I remembered! I knew it would come to me! haha
I was thinking I might jump in on this one with you because I know some of Jennifer Blake's stuff is avalable for Kindle and this one is but.... it's 10 bucks atAmazon! I love my Kindle but not enough to pay 3 or 4 times more than I need to to read this... pah! I might try a find a dead-tree copy and jump in later. I really want to try some Jennifer Blake and it sounds like this might be a good one to start with!
Have you read any other of Anne Stuarts books (beside Ritual Sins) Smitten Kitten? I have not tried her yet, but I get the impression that a lot of her work is like that, different and kinda dark.I have read some PNR but none that I can think of that are really BR-ish. I recently read Kushiel's Dart which I think a lot of BR readers would like. It is about a courtesan who specializes in BDSM I guess you could say, she is a masochist and enjoys pain. But she is really more like a priest or something for her religion, it's not viewed as trashy but a spiritual type of service. It takes place in an alternate earth and is kinda like a fantasy but it also has some romantic elements. The hero is not an alpha tho, but it is a nice epic that keeps you interested the whole way through and it does deliver in the WTF moments a bit with some details about her meetings with her patrons. There is some kidnapping and rape, attempted rape, some cool battle scenes, I think BR lovers would like it!
Welcome to the group Gsevahil! I am sure you will find lot's of great rec's here!!!
I get mine sometimes at the used bookstore, more often at library book sales, thrift stores, or garage sales where you can usually get them for pennies! I know some people buy them in bulk from ebay but I haven't tried that yet. There are some that are starting to become avalable in e-book. I have a kindle and get super excited when I find an old BR for my Kindle! It's the best of both worlds! I have a list going of Kindle titles here.
I'm in for sure! Still working on my list...Crossword: Devil's
Crossword: Scarlet (classics)
Sudoku
15+16+20+12=63 ---> 6+3=9
Misc: other books I have read and may try to fit in later
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen 72
For those of you that read PNR.... just wondering if there are any really good PNR books you would recommend to a BR lover? Looking to get a good long list of PNR's that have some BR qualities. Alpha hero is a must! It is also a plus if the book is epic in scale (a nice long meaty read with lots of travel, large cast of characters etc), cheating and forced seduction or rape are ok, and WTF moments please!
Any rec's for other modern (post 1995 or so) BR's are also welcome!
Ok- I know I was expecting some real OMG-WTF type of stuff from Whitney, My Love based on all the reviews and then when I read it it really didn't seem so bad. Same thing with The Flame and the Flower so I can't help but wonder if this one is really all that bad....So I am just wondering what all of you are expecting from this months group read... Take the poll here!
