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Wicked
by: Susan Johnson |
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780553572148 ISBN: 0553572148 Label: Bantam Manufacturer: Bantam Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 368 Publication Date: December 01, 1996 Publisher: Bantam Release Date: December 01, 1996 Studio: Bantam |
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  - That is why the title was "Wicked!" and wicked it is!This one is simple! This book has the perfect title. Just read it! Yeah, yeah, they jump in, hardly jump out, jump, jump, jump. Like the way Susan Johnson put it together. Started this author with this book. Glory, hallelujah! Rating: - WickedAwesome book. I really like to read Susan Johnson books. She is an excellent romance novelist. Rating: - Refreshing...NOT a ho hum romance novel!I thought that this book was wonderful! It was not the usual boy meets girl and then chases after her when he realizes he loves her. I love how Ms. Johnson paints such vivid pictures of her heroes and heroines that you actually wish they were real people!! I loved that even at the end of the book Beau was having a hard time reconciling himself to married life and was resistant to it. It kind of gave the allusion that he was not REALLY giving up other women...even though he promised! (I personally love a bad boy who says this is me...take it or leave it!) Rating: - Very Wicked Indeed!!Dear readers, this was the book that did it for me. This was the book that had me running mad all over the place looking for any Susan Johnson book that I could possibly find, so that I could devour them! I was so fascinated that I could not even borrow her books from the library. I had to buy them! This book about Beau and Serena was so darn delicious that I read it twice! Serena, A servant, stowed away on Beau's yacht , and Beau who is A very naughty boy was A very happy man indeed! This book had everything you would want in A novel. A sweet and impulsive heroine, A hero who is so darn sexy, you'll wish he was real, an interesting story line, and HOT, HOT, sex!! Just take A gander at the cover of the book, and you'll get an idea what your in for. Don't get me wrong, this book is not all about sex. I hate it when critics call Susan Johnson books erotica's. She is so much more talented than that. Whenever I read one of her books, I become so engrossed that I forget all of my problems for A day or two. I laugh, I cry, I can feel the love that the heroes and heroines have for each other. She captures the emotions and essence of each and every one of her characters perfectly. You will never forget one of Susan Johnson's novels. So, if your looking for A novels with A little bit of everything, try Wicked. Get A taste of how A women can first capture A man's body, and then his heart. Rating:  - Hot Without PlotThis was one of the most unromatic Romance novels I've ever read. It was very hot, very erotic, but the characters were unbelievable and unlikable, and the paper thin plot full of unmotivated decisions. There were good things here: The historical research was obviously thorough, but it was an odd mix with what was essentially an erotic novel, despite its being marketed as a Historical Romance. Johnson's voice and prose was very good. Certainly, it is evocative. The sex scenes were extremely hot and the prose was nicely emotional. So much so that the raw word choices in describing anatomy and acts was very intrusive in what was supposed to be a Historical Romance, or at least a love story. There is more that is bad: The plot is almost non-existant. The two main characters make decisions without much rhyme or reason, and change their minds without any kind of justification. The characters were unlikeable and unbelievable. The hero, who at the tender age of 22 has apparently slept with every woman in England, Italy, and Naples, objectifies women in an apalling way. I thought perhaps he'd change as his feelings for the heroine developed, but he's basically doing the same thing right up to his last minute unmotivated "epiphany". The heroine is completely unmemorable except in her whining jealousy and utter capitulation to the hero in every matter. She's inconsistant, as well, accepting money from the hero, but not gifts (though she accepts those after token objection as well), sniping jealously, then saying she's not jealous. And why she loves this misogynistic phillanderer is a mystery. This was obviously not the Johnson book to start with. There was more believable affection between the hero's parents in two scenes than all of the (many) sex scenes between the main characters. Perhaps this is a good author, but a bad book. I would split the five in the author's favor at give it a 3, but the hero's treatment of the heroine (and all women) gets it a 2. |
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