Beloved
by Bertrice Small
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Author: Bertrice SmallEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1995-01-03
ISBN: 0345482840
Number of pages: 480
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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Book Review: Raunchy Romance!
Summary: 4 Stars
This is the first book I have read of Bertrice Small's and I was very pleased with it. The writing of romance novels can be ditzy and some scenes downright impossible or silly but with this had enough of a story that I could overlook the other factors. I liked the story because it was different from most romance novels out there (a majority take place in England in the 1700's, with a Duke that ends up marrying a woman he only wanted for money or land and it ends up becoming love). This story took place in a land and a time that very few authors choose to go and that is what drew me to it in the first place. The romance scenes were good and raunchy (although too numerous for my taste) and this was the first romance novel in which the heroine is actually involved with the "bad guy" aside from the man she truly loves, making the story more enjoyably complicated. Also I like romance novels to have a little bit of tragedy that the hero and heroine must over come (not just one long happy fairy tale) and this book certainly had it with the loss of Zenobia's mother and first love and eventually her kingdom of Palmyra. Yet there is a satisfying happy ending, so overall I recommend it to any people willing to pick it up. Oh and this novel is historically acurate, another trait a majority of romance novels lack.
Summary of Beloved
The daughter of a powerful desert cheiftain, beautiful raven-haired Zenobia, a descendent of Cleopatra, witnesses at an early age the shocking brutality of renegade Roman soldiers and vows to hate all of the blue-eyed strangers forever. Despite that pledge, she falls hopelessly and passionately in love with Marcus Alexander Britanus, a Roman. And it will take all her cunning and skill in war to keep the precious erotic rapture she can find only in his arms...."Bertrice Small creates cover-to-cover passion, a keen sense of history and suspense."
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