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Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780758203922 ISBN: 0758203926 Label: Kensington Manufacturer: Kensington Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 368 Publication Date: September 01, 2000 Publisher: Kensington Studio: Kensington Related Items:      see moreAverage Rating:
 Rating:  - Promising first part but a bit disappointing taken as a whole.This is my first Schone's book and I`ll rate it with 3 stars because even though l enjoyed very much the first part of the book and The sexual tension between the main characters was great all through the lessons, in some way the rest of the book, let me down. The sex scenes got me bored, they were way too long, and repetitive....so l finished the book out of curiosity. Sometimes , l found the female character really annoying, and hypocrite. And l agree the repetition of the bastard issue throughout the book was a little tiring and degrading. Apart from this, l must admit R. Schone is a tallented writer. Rating:  - Best Book I have read from her!!!I have to say that this book was so awesome. I loved the characters and really felt a connection between them! Sure the heroine is married but once you find out what an absolutly horrible person he is you do not object Elizabeth leaving him for Ramiel, who is way more deserving of her love than Edward. I was concerned that I would not like it because of her adultry but like I said, Edward, her husband is so not for her that I could not bare her being with him and not with Ramiel. I hope this doesn't ruin the book for you but even if it does you should still read it because there is a lot to this book and well worth reading!!! Rating: - So Good....but So Disturbing!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 develop their relationship in the context of several early morning, explicit, frank, detailed descriptions and preferences around the act (or art) of sex. By the time the couple actually come together, their relationship is so deep...based on brutal honesty, vulnurability, and attraction. I completely "bought in" to these two people, and when they finally committed to one another it seemed natural, appropriate, and destined. Now the bad. Personally, I do not prefer for my reading to include homosexuality. This novel was good enough that I may have been able to stomach even the story line of homosexuality had it not been laced with incest and pedophelia. I did not enjoy this twist in the story at all. Sexual abuse in any form sickens and offends me. It is because of this part of the story that I can only give it 3 stars. A shame because the parts of the story that only include Elizabeth and Ramiel are really incredible and entirely unique to anything I've read in the past. If you decide to read this, I would warn you of the graphic nature of this novel. In my opionion, this nature is this novel's greatest strength and it's greatest weakness. Rating: - A Romantica must-haveThis is the first Schone book, I ever read and from then on I was hooked. This book was sexy, and intriguing, and so wonderful. the evolving relationship between Ramiel and Elisabeth grows from her need to become a more perfect wife and his need to be accepted by the British ton. Together they discover what they really need fro, each other: Love, forgiveness, and acceptance of who they really are. Rating: - lothario and repressed mother bond over sex talkOK, first of all: this book is an Orientalist nightmare. Schone talks about "Arabia" as though it's a place (where, pray tell? - this book never gives a clue), has pretty much zero idea what a harem is (a place where women and children live - i.e., wives and daughters as well as concubines, should they happen to exist) or what harem life is generally like, she blathers on about the secrets of Oriental or Arab sexuality, and talks about Arab savagery as though it is a foregone conclusion.... I'll admit that sort of thing pisses me off, but I was willing to suspend the indignation while I was reading because it was a pretty good book. The way it's written is deliberately shocking. Each chapter alternates between Elizabeth's normal life, and her Ramiel life. Since her normal life is a nightmare - she is treated with the utmost contempt by the people who are closest to her - and she spends all of her time with Ramiel talking about sex, the alternation between the two has a bit of a good cop/bad cop feel. It goes hot and cold (pretty literally), over and over again. Snapping between one and the other unbalances the reader, making you more vulnerable to the content. I understand why this is called an "erotic" romance - I think there's just as much plot here, and easily as much characterization, as in an average romance but it really is much more sexual. The scenes where they're just talking may be the sexiest of all: two people fully clothed and sitting across the desk from one another saying the most explicit and intimate things that they can think of. I would have liked to understand better exactly what Ramiel saw in Elizabeth. He seems to think that she's the only person who cares about him, or sees him as a human, but she doesn't hesitate to mistrust, misjudge & mistreat him - which he notices, and finds offensive. His mother seems to think that it's because they're both running from something - but that doesn't really strike me as being sufficient. In the end, I'm giving it five stars because it's well written, and because Ramiel is so clearly drawn and so devastatingly appealing. |
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