OH MY GOD! AWFUL , JUST AWFUL. Normally i like a book with an overly macho alpha male, who is in love with the heroine to the point of obsession, but this was just soo terrible , i wish i could go back in time and un-read it.Firstly i would like to clarify that i get that this is a 'Bodice ripper' and the heroine is supposed to be physically violated.The low rating is NOT because my inner feminist is appalled at the idea of rape in the book.I knew it would be there , so i was prepared. Also having read a lot of great bodice rippers like , and , all of which have overly possessive heroes who take their respective women captive, i was in the mood for another torrid , tumultuous captive romance.Johanna Lindsey is all over the place with her supposedly intense and impacting heroes , the exact kind that i like, so i bought the ebook.Little did i know, that Ms Lindsey , who is so popular for her raw and stomach turning 'bodice rippers' had a temporary forfeiture of her vocabulary and imagination while writing this book.Ugh, i dont even know where to start, but I'll try anyway.The heroine is the most annoying character in the book.She is a whiney, self destructive drama queen with the intellectual capacity of a goldfish.She is illogical and has no conversational skills whatsoever.Her use of the words "I Hate him" over and over again made me want to wring her neck . The emphasis of how beautiful she was got old very quickly.Her dumbness knew no bounds.She repeatedly tried to escape her captor(captain Tristan,the hero) , which obviously didnt work out because apparently our hero is omnipotent.he finds her everytime , and everytime she is either on the verge of getting killed or raped or both.But she remained foolishly unrelenting , and her plans were so fallible , i wanted to slap her for her 'triumph' at having come up with them ,(oh yeah , her optimism at her stupid escape plans and antics will make you want to cry in frustration)Yet everytime she went back to him, with the same supposedly 'fiery temper' of hers(frankly she sounded like an angst ridden 11 yr old with a limited vocabulary).Her mule headedness and her complete lack of self preservation( i guess we were supposed to think its bravery) made me want to stop reading it , many times, but i kept going,ignoring that voice in me that begged me to stop tormenting myself. I mean i get it , she kept getting raped , and her virtue was stolen so on and so forth, but REALLY WOMAN , grow the hell up.Her childish attempts at dissuading him were sooo silly , i actually felt embarassed ,on her behalf.I mean she could have spoken to him and asked him how long he plans to keep her there or you know , tried to make him see reason or had a conversation like a person with a well functioning brain , but all she did was yell out childish insults or try to come up with new mind games which were extremely stupid , but everytime she came up with some new trick or loophole to get out of the situation she would be extremely overjoyed at her own ingenuity, her optimism was seriously pissing off. Its like the author WANTED us to dislike her passionately.Also her eyes changed colour according to her mood, like those mood rings.. cute , i guess(not really).Almost as bad were the heroine's mother and maid.They both not only didnt care about Bettina getting raped, emotionally scarred etc, they actually encouraged her to get used to it and be submissive and try to get him to marry her.Also , at the beginning of the book , Bettina's mother advises her to be open to adultery(when her marriage is fixed) ,because Bettina is a bastard, so its apparently allright for her to behave like her mom, because hey, what mother wouldnt want her daughter to become a stepford bitch, while being a sailor slut on the side?The hero was allright.He didnt annoy me too much or maybe the heroine was much too distracting for me to really notice him.He was passable i suppose. Yeah, he is an alpha male , jealous , possessive yada yada.. but his character has very little development. You wont grow to like him , rather you'll be unable to relate to him , because what could he possible find appealing about Bettina? The poor sociopathic fool keeps trying to win her over with his super awesome sexpert skills and forced seduction, but even though her 'treachorous body' cant help but respond to his touch, her mind remains stoically aloof (yeah , that's original),for a while atleast.Honestly , i couldnt complete it, i really tried, i did. Its just one of those books that you want to complete just to work up enough wrath to spew it all out in variegated,colorful ways, when you review them.But i stopped about 3 quarters through the book.if i had tried to read the rest i would have probably got an aneurism,so for the sake of my own mental health i stopped.Needless to say , i would not recommend this to anybody.
Bu benim ilk Johanna Lindsey kitabımdı ve yazarı çok sevdim . Baştan söyleyeyim , Tristan korsan falan değil , ayrıca çok karizmatik ve zeki bir karakter . Kıza daha en başında aşık olduğu halde bunu bir türlü farkedememesi bana tırnaklarımı yedirtti .Ama tehditler savurup esip gürlese de kıza zarar veremeyeceğini anlamıştım doğrusu . Bettina ile çok sevimli bir çift oldular . Tristan 'ın sahiplenme güdüsü müthişti .Zaten historical romanlarda kaptanları çok seviyordum , Tristan 'ı da sevdim . (Kimseyi Brenda Joyce'un Devlin 'i kadar sevemem yine de .) Aşağıdaki puanlamalara bakılırsa kitabı sevmeyen de çokmuş ama ben sevmemek için bir neden bulamadım . Tecavüz mecavüz denmiş , insanlar ona sinirlenmiş sanırım . Açıkçası buna tam olarak da tecavüz denemez . Daha çok kızı kandırdı gibi ama kabul edilsin ki adam kızı incitecek hiç bir şey yapmadı . Tamam önceleri niyeti pek sağlam değildi ama aşık oldu işte sonra da bir türlü sevdiğini söyleyemedi , işin adı tecavüz olarak kaldı . Kızdaki de tam bir Stockholm sendromu . Acaba denizcileri çok seviyorum da kitabın kusurlarını göremedim mi ?... Aman yok canım öyle şey , harikaydı vallahi :)
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I'll have to write a proper review of this rape-o-rama tomorrow. It's crap like this that turns me off to historical romance novels.OK, so it took me two days to get back to this. I will summarize the book for you so that you don't have to wade through it and let you draw your own conclusions.____________________________________________________________________Bettina (AKA Simpering Obnoxious Victim or SOV for short) -'Hi, I'm Bettina. My daddy doesn't love me enough. So I became so obnoxious tha
—Jim son of Jim (formerly PhotoJim)
HORRIBLE!DID I REALLY FUCKING READ THIS BOOK. I'M EMBARRASSED.Maybe I read it to see if she could turn around this horrible story. Unfortunately for me, she did not even attempt it.HORRIBLE.SENT AWAY FROM HER FAMILY.KIDNAPPED BY PIRATESRAPERAPETRICKEDRAPERAPERAPETEMPER TANTRUMRAPERAPELOCKED IN A HOUSE, ON A PIRATE OWNED ISLANDRAPERAPEESCAPEDALMOST RAPED BY DIFFERENT RAPISTFINDS MOTHER- TOLD FATHER IS DEADRESCUED BY PIRATE RAPISTRAPERAPELOCKED AWAY WITHOUT CLOTHINGRAPERAPEY RAPEPREGGERSRAPERAPIST BRINGS IN ANOTHER WOMANNO RAPE *SIGH*CRYING FALLS IN LOVE WITH RAPIST *WHAT THE #@$% *FINDS LONG LOST "FATHER"RAPIST HAPPILY EVER RAPERYOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
—Sarah
Johanna Lindsey has been a favorite author of mine since I first read, "Say You Love Me". I've taken in to consideration that this book is supposedly one of her earlier writings. All in all, the book was a fair read. The plot was interesting enough but I soon tired of the interaction between Tristan and Bettina. Granted, a lot of readers were turned off by the whole "rape" thing but having been made an avid reader of historical romances after reading "The Flame and The Flower" and "The Wolf and The Dove" by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, I was able to understand that the whole "forced seduction" theme was found in quite a few romance books written during this time frame. What did bother me was that, unlike the characters in the novels I mentioned before, most of the interaction between the two main characters in this book consisted mainly of rape and the author didn't seem to take the time to show how the two developed feelings towards one another as time went on. It was more like..."I'm going to rape you." "I hate you." "I'm going to rape you". "I hate you." "I'm going to rape you." "I think I may be falling in love with you." WHAAAT??? The storyline has enough to keep you reading but one reading was enough for me. I'll not likely be pulling this one out of the bookcase again any time soon.
—Blu
