tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164853577957598606.post121642219038292547..comments2023-02-13T08:27:54.123-05:00Comments on A Journal Of My Reviews: The Love Slave, by Bertrice Small [1]Cainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03787753869420121617noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164853577957598606.post-23201124848708087522007-08-15T18:28:00.000-04:002007-08-15T18:28:00.000-04:00well, when you have been writing for about 30 year...well, when you have been writing for about 30 years, your backlist starts adding up. If you had asked me what Small book to read, I would have recommended SKYE O'MALLEY, one of her earliest but still probably her best. It still has lost of creepy, dramatic, violent themes -- incest, slavery, etc. -- and the heroine starts the book at age 15 but this is all set against meticulously detailed, engrossing Elizabethian history. Definitely a page turner.<BR/><BR/>However, THE LOVE SLAVE is a good example of her later style so your pick wasnt bad. Small has written books that are less "ugh" but you really have other authors for that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164853577957598606.post-42751895599752611402007-08-15T12:40:00.000-04:002007-08-15T12:40:00.000-04:00I was going to give her another chance but thanks ...I was going to give her another chance but thanks for the heads-up. I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way because she sure seems prolific. <BR/><BR/>I still get an *ugh* feeling just thinking about what I've just read.Cainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03787753869420121617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164853577957598606.post-8992470654855591042007-08-15T02:45:00.000-04:002007-08-15T02:45:00.000-04:00Small is one of the original old school bodice-rip...Small is one of the original old school bodice-ripper authors of the 70s and early 80s and she really hasnt changed her style that much. <BR/><BR/>She is a great-grandmother and she still writes like this. I'm exhausted just thinking about it. No way, I could be a heroine in her stories which usually feature them going through many violent hardships and less strong heroes who show up at the endAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com