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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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  - HOT!!! Sex and Relationship is the plotAfter reading several weighty historicals, I found "Wicked" a good read and a sexy romp - without the relationship between the characters being burdened down by too many secondary plots. The history contained was well researched and fit right in. There was plot, but it mainly centered around the relationship between the two characters, who obsessively have sex with one another from cover to cover. I would classify this more as an erotica, rather than a romance - although the romance was vivid and really the main theme. Beau is a rake and a scoundrel, but a likable (and sexy!) one. The main female character is strong-minded and unashamed to explore her sexuality awakened by Beau. The sex scenes were HOT! Not your usual for this type of book. The dialog flowed and was incredibly STIMULATING : ) Unlike many books with the plot of "reforming" the rake, I was actually convinced by the end that this was "true love". Not for you if you don't like arrogant alphas and take control types, however, he heroine gives as good as she gets! No shy doormat here! She holds her own against Beau, and as a reader, I felt satisfied (for once) that that this guy was made to pay his dues before he got the prize. Loved it! Its going in the keeper stack for another rainy day when I don't feel like too much thinking - just being sensually entertained! Rating:  - ABSOLUTLEY HATED THIS BOOKIt's all been said before, If Susan Johnson spent more time creating a great character for her Hero instead of thinking up different characters for him to sleep with then maybe we could at least like him a little. You can't have him sleeping with all these women, it would be nice if he said no to one of them before he asks the Heroine to marry him but know he sleeps with the woman that was sleezing all over him in front of the Heroine and that's why she left him, but no he sleeps with her as well, and then he asks the Heroine to marry him. What a joke. What an absolute joke, there will be no HEA for this poor heroine, he'll be sleeping with everyone he can. If you love someone you don't sleep with all and sundry you have respect for the one you love I would have felt more secure in a HEA if he hadn't slept with at least the last couple. Susan Johnson's books follow a pattern. You have a sleazy rake who will sleep with any woman in their path married or not. You have a Heoine who respects and loves the Hero enough not to sleep with anyone but him, and in the last chapter of the book no explanations are given half the time no sorry for cheating/adultry, just an I love you and the Heroine forgets everything that went on and blindly believes in HEA. Where is the romance where is the love. Her books are about sex/lust/faithlessness/adultry that's it there's no love there. It surprises me that these hero's aren't dying of the french pox/syphilis with the amount of women they bed. Maybe the Authors think that the amount of women they bed equals how virile he is not true it only proves what a unfaithful/womaniser he is. Come on Susan Johnson write us a good love story with a Hero that we can actually like, someone worthy of the name HERO. Rating: - What happened to romance?This book is not a "romantic novel". What it is is filled with gratuitous sex and what's with all the vulgar language. I'm talking foul mouthed. This is just soft porn in the guise of a novel. I'm not a prude, but I like a story line that builds up to something. I stopped on page 47. Where is Georgette Heyer when you need her? Rating: - A skimmerThe author skimmed on character development and I ended up skimming to the end to find out why anyone would give this book 5 stars. Why would Serena jump into bed with Beau so soon? Beau was too young to be a such an experienced rake. Serena obviously did not want to appear to be Beau's kept woman but that was what she was. Actually, they both were sluts and I just could not connect with them. There was no romance, only sex. Worse of all, if all you want to fill pages with sex at least be entertaining, the sex scenes were boring, the author skimmed here too. Rating: - WickedThis is not a book for the prudish!!! Girl: Ex-servant longing to be a painter, stows away on boy's boat. Boy: Very verile (of course), young, sexy, attractive catches girl. They get together (over and over and over again) They fall in love but won't admit to it... Until they do. With any romance novel, you know they're going to get (and eventually stay) together. The fun part is reading their journey along the way. If you're looking for an a-typical journey (i.e. dripping with well... you know) quick to the point romance novel then this one is a great read. Personally, I don't care what the story is behind it... I love the "getting together" scenes and I was NOT disappointed!! |
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