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Caress and Conquer
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What Members Thought

Vivisection
Holy cesspit of political incorrectness, Batman! I am.... I just.... <-- That's me with mouth agape at the sheer wrongness of this novel. (and yet I did keep reading because there was some smutty, smutty sex).

Even by the ridiculously low standards set by the early age of bodice rippers, this book was BAD.

Let's start with all the rape.

Raping nobility
Raping prison guards
Raping overseers
Raping hero
Raping sailors
Raping savage Indians who can't get heap big fill of white flesh
Raping scorned woman who
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Jena
I wish I could give this book a minus star if I could for the pure frustration factor... Yes, it has many twists to this story, and as a reader you never know whats going to happen next... because ANYTHING could and DID happen. Every torment a person can go through the heroine went through, from beatings, to rapes, to hearing her "love of her life" having sex with another woman...

If you like these high drama bodice ripper with insanely cruel and abusive hero, try Sweet Savage Love by Rosemary R
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BRNTerri

I enjoyed this book. It's certainly very rough.
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Bambi Unbridled
Usually I like the adventures these bodice rippers offer, but there was no adventure here. It was just tragedy after tragedy. 2.5 stars.
Jen
Aug 10, 2008 marked it as to-read
Crystal S
Jul 10, 2009 marked it as to-read-confirmed
Jen
Dec 26, 2009 marked it as to-read
Tammy Walton Grant
Jun 23, 2010 marked it as to-read
Michelle
Sep 09, 2010 marked it as wishlist  ·  review of another edition
Michelle
Oct 20, 2010 marked it as to-read
Tutti Dolci
Nov 13, 2010 marked it as owned-unread
Ria
Jun 02, 2011 rated it did not like it
Sandi *~The Pirate Wench~*
Jun 05, 2011 marked it as connie-mason
Nana_books
Nov 01, 2011 rated it really liked it
Lee
Jan 01, 2012 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Nona
Jul 02, 2012 marked it as to-read
Mumsgang
Jan 28, 2013 marked it as to-read
shms
Mar 19, 2014 marked it as to-read
Davina
Mar 26, 2014 marked it as to-read
Pollytipsy
Jul 12, 2014 marked it as to-read
rachel
Sep 17, 2014 rated it really liked it
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