mann......... this is such a nice book............... ( )

One of my first novels from K. Woodiwiss.. Top novel .. Like I was a character in the novel also..Swept away by the passion of the two..The only book i have read more than once..You can feel the love between the two characters.. Beautifullll ( )

My very first novel of this genre - mesmerizing at 13, the fond memories keep me coming back to the love story of Heather and Brandon. ( )

This is the first book that I have read by this author and I could read it again and again. I loved the plot and the love story as well as the main characters that were so entertaining. I was absorbed by the feelings of Heather and Brandon that seem to jump off the page to me.
I have to put this at the top of my all-time favorite list. ( )

Yeah well, I think it's the first and last time I'll ever read a book by this author. The main girl is simply an empty shell. Apart from her beauty there's absolutely nothing to see - She sure loves clothes, she's sooooooo vain - and the main guy is completely laughable.
This would put off anybody but since I wanted to read this book for the sake of knowledge - heard she "revolutionized" the romance genre with this one.

I still had to know the end of the love story of a girl who was raped by a handsome man and who fell in love with him. We all would like to be raped, have a violent and authoritarian husband who would only be interested in "the curve of our bosom", "the curve of our thighs" and " the curve of our buttocks" and care only for our baby and our wonderful husband. After all, a woman is only good for weaving and making herself pretty. And Brandon is so generous, he doesn't care if she's stupid, she knows how to look with admiration at her husband and is good looking! He can boast everywhere the pretty thing is his, HA! Not to forget, he buys her CLOTHES! God! Women are so easy to please.

I'm not even speaking about the way she speaks of slaves as "servants".
I personally doubt Blacks looked in awe at the "generosity of their masters" and that their Masters' happiness was their happiness. Well there is Hati, the old Black governess, she's apparently treated like family and can express herself freely in the house EVEN if she disapproves of her master, she can even MAKE FUN of him OPENLY: Yeah well, I COMPLETELY BUY IT! If you set your story in 1799, please make it realistic, this is ridiculous!
There's that very funny passage when Hati criticizes a white man who apparently had been living a rather depraved life, anyway in front of her master she says " White trash, that's what he is."
Yeah right. One thing I know for sure, is that even the filthiest White was always less filthy than the most proper Black. And even if the "master" agreed, do you seriously believe he would have supported a Black saying that? Come On, get real! Let's say the story was set in the North, Northern People weren't that tolerant, they may have been against slavery, but still, Blacks are Blacks, Whites are Whites right? Cruelty's wrong, but still you have to keep them at their place.

It was pure torture to finish that one. I would give that book an "A" and a "D" all together for "Abysmally Dreadful". Can't believe more than 2 million copies got sold when it first got out. Boring and completely superficial. ( )