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Title: A Love For All Time
ISBN: 0451204743
Author:
Bertrice Small
Publicate Date: 2001-09-01
Publish: 2001-09-01
List Price: $16.00
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Paperback
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1: A Love for All Time
I absolutely loved this book, especially as I had read the two previous books in the Skye O'Malley series. Even though this story can stand alone it has so much more meaning if you have read the Skye O'Malley Saga from the first book. I love the way Bertrice Small interweaves her fictional characters with the real historical people of the time. Just when you think everything in the adventure is over and you are now at "Happily Ever After" time, the plot thickens and your are on to more wonderful adventure. It is hard to lay the book down. I am now reading the fourth book in the saga.
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2: A little confusing to me
Having heard so many women complain how men misuse them and see them only as sex objects it is a little difficult understanding why they so enjoy reading novels in which the heroine is so misued. It's as difficult for me to understand as these UFO fantasies of them being kidnapped by aliens and forcibly used for breeding.
Case in point, here we have the heroine abducted and sold into white slavery. Stripped for examination. Debased and degraded and thrown into a harem.
Eventually she's rescued but not before she has ejoyed it.
Some of the stuff in here, such as the sexual misuse of underage girls turns me off. The twists in it though are facinating.
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3: She's no Skye O'Malley
Aidan St. michael is a strong, likable character but she's not as fun, sexy or colorful as Skye, the heroine of the preceding booksin this series. Small takes readers on a trip through familiar territory (again, another heroine enslaved and sent to Algeria, to be the plaything of an oversexed mideastern man...again the hero and heroine fall in love way too fast for belief...again just when i am rooting for these two to be happy, they are separated by an evil plot...again I have to read through pages of sex the hero has with other women (instead of the heroine--not my cup of tea!) etc. Conn gets it on with an ambassador's wife, a mother and her twin daughters, and has threesomes with two sets of sisters, including a very graphic scene describing his initiation into what the author refers to as "greek sex"....same purple prose. All the hallmarks of a Small novel. However, it lacks the colorful sensory details, the faster pace, the eroticism, of the previous novels. Or maybe its just that Aidan is too ordinary 9dare I say dull?) to be a true Small heroine. Skye is a 15th century Scarlett O'Hara. Aidan is a drab, plain-jane, Mrs. Ashley Wilkes wannabe. Readble but not the author's best. Best to skip this one (Word to the wise: Skip the sequels, This Heart of Mine and Lost Love Found as well--both of which feature the exact same plot as A Love for All Time!! How many O'Malley women end up in harems? What are the odds? Skye...Velvet, Aidan..Valentina...Jasmine...and India...enough already!! 2/3 of Small's books involve the women being sex slaves, captured by pirates, sold to white slave traders, or sent to harems--it is a plot device she has applied ad nauseum and if its not your thing, you might want to skip her books altogether...)
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4: A love for all time - my first romance
I first got my hands on this book back in the 80's as a teenager. While I admit the content was a little on the hot and heavy side for someone so young, this book opened so many doors for me. I can honestly say that this book has fueled my love of printed word!
I have now read every book published by Ms. Small, most of them more than once. This book taught me to love history and to think about the good old USAs roots back in England. A interesting note is that most of Ms. Small's book inter-twine for a fun read. It is always a good time to try and see if you have encountered a character before.
Ms. Small sticks to her tried and true "kidnapped and sold East" formula, but those that are loyal readers should really enjoy this book. Conn is one of my favorite characters for his strength of character and his devotion to this "less than perfect" wife. Try to enjoy it for the story it is and not pick it appart for the writer's obviously human mistakes!
Many blessings and may Allah smile upon Ms. Small for many years to come!
One last piece of trivia - the cover of the original of this book was considered indecent since she is "holding her breast". Boy have we come a long long way since then..........
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5: a good read
i truly enjoyed this offering from ms. small. what i liked about this particular novel was the fact that the heroine, Aidan, was not the usual run-of-the-mill drop dead gorgeous beauty like most of the romance novels out there. she was attractive in her own right, strong willed, level headed and posessed a secret yearning for love. i was also thrillled with the idea of Conn her husband adopting the st. michael surname instead....that was refreshing!
Aidan saw an opportunity that she dare not refuse and she grabbed it with outstretched arms willingly. the story travels from europe and crosses the ocean to an exotic land where our heroine is exposed to the tantilising sensual treats of the east.
this book was a good read with an easy to follow storyline!
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