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Summary: Magnificent Read!
Review: Aidan is one of my favorite characters. I get tired of reading about these ravishingly beautiful heroines. How nice to find a lead character who is rather plain and unsure of herself. Aidan is innocent, proper, shy, and mannerly. She doesn't burst on the scene in a flurry, but rather quietly walks in. We soon find her beauty within and rejoice as she falls in love with Conn. Though she doesn't consider herself a formidable person, she does have a quiet strength which she discovers when she must rescue her daughter. I think you will find more women like Aidan than like Skye O'Malley. Perhaps that is why we like the book so well. More of us can relate to Aidan. I would love to read about more women like her.
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Summary: She's no Skye O'Malley
Review: 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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Summary: Desperately seeking "A love for all times"
Review: I am a dutch fan of the books written by Bertrice Small and I have been looking everywhere for A love for all times. In Holland they tell me it is impossible to get the book and my parents have also looked everywhere when they were on holiday in America. I hope to find it and I won't give up.
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Summary: Two Thumbs DOWN!!!!!
Review: I bought this book expecting it to be a historical romance that I normally read and enjoyed. I had never read Beatrice Small's novels before so I decide to give it a try. This was one of the worse choices I had ever made and hope to never make again. The beginning of the story was a promising true romance that I was expecting, but after the kidnapping and Aidan's (female heroine) actions in the sultan's harem just shocked me. It more than shocked me, it disgusted me. Not only was I sickened by Aidan's betrayal, but also that the author left nothing to the imagination. If I were Aidan I would have rather chose death. After reading this novel I had to stop reading romance for a while. The details were just to graphic and disturbing. If your looking for a true innocent romance I recommend Kathleen Woodiwiss's The Flame and the Flower. Now that is a true, beatuiful, innocent romance with a heroine to be proud of.
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Summary: average
Review: I felt this book was average. Some was great and some was pretty bad.The princple of Aidans plain more realistic looks was great. I liked the idea behind it. The picture of Aidan I had in my head was howerver very pretty but plain...I saw her was Uma Thurmen with longer more light strawberry blonde hair. I was not crazy about Conn in this book, he seemed different then when he was introduced in All The Sweet Tomorrows. This to me was bad. I loved the kinky sex scenes when Aidan was enslaved, the "love balls" and other female slave participation made for some very erotic situations. Overall I just could not get totally engrossed in this book as I did with the 2 books about Skye and This Heart Of Mine.
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Summary: A love for all time - my first romance
Review: 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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Summary: WILDEST BOOK EVER
Review: I FIRST STARTED READING THESE O'MALLEY BOOKS BY MISTAKE I USUALLY READ JULIE GARWOOD BOOKS BUT THE BOOK SKYE O'MALLEY CAUGHT MY EYE IN THE LABRARY SINCE THEN EVERY TIME I SEE ONE OF HER BOOKS I PICK THEM UP AND READ THEM THIS BOOK TAKES YOU TO SO MANY PLACES THAT ONLY BERTRICE CAN WRITE DOWN THIS IS DEFFENTLY A BOOK TO PICK UP THEY WAY SHE DESCRIBES ENGLAND AND THE MIDDLE EAST YOU FEEL LIKE YOU ARE THERE WITH THE AIDAN AND CONN. THIS BOOK IS A GREAT READ. I HAVE ONE QUESTION IF ANYONE KNOWS THE NAMES OF THE BOOKS THAT COME AFTER THIS ONE AND BEFORE DARLING JASMINE PLEASE E-MAIL ME I AM LOOKING FOR THEM
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Summary: The Skye O'malley series RULES!! It's awesome
Review: I have 6 of the 7 books of this series. I'm having trouble getting "A Love for all Time"...I just want to continue to read the complete series. I've also got some other Bertrice Small books and she is a wonderful writer/author..Thanks
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Summary: Well worth the read. Keep looking for it!
Review: I have been told that "A Love For All Time" is the hardest Bertrice Small book to try and obtain. The people who have told me this are correct. This is easily Small's best book since "Love Wild And Fair". Aidan and Conn are two very hard headed people, matched by a simple mistake - and it works. The hell that these two have to go through will MAKE you believe in the power of "true love". I was EXTREMELY lucky to find a HARDBACK version of this book. For all of the Small fans out there still searching - do not give up. It's out there and it's WORTH it!
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Summary: FABULOUS READING!!!
Review: I have read several of this author's books and have not yet been unsatisfied. The work is thrilling, exciting and "can't put down-don't want it to end" reading.
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