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Summary: Great on eroticism, but not my cup of tea.
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed the underlying theme about an unloved and under-appreciated wife and mother of two wanting to explore her sexuality and improve her marital relationship with her husband. I enjoyed storyline and the characters of the book......until I discovered the homosexuality "events" in the story. This was not my cup of tea.
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Summary: Sizzling! Thought-provoking too!
Review: Before I even picked up this book, I was bombarded by my friends' incessant ravings about it. So out of curiosity, I decided to try this book by a relatively new author. Well, were the compliments justified? Schone certainly heats up the pages of the book with her vivid and scintillating love-making scenes. The book was a cut above the senseless erotica fluff of Thea Devine and Beatrice Small with its considerations of emotional decisions and entanglements. This is not your typical novel of fairytale romance involving a young, beautiful and virginal heroine and a conventionally gallant Prince Charming. Instead, it explores the sexuality of a married woman with two kids (a woman supposedly way past her prime) who feels unwanted, unloved and unattractive. The hero, a half-breed outcast, too is tormented by his own dark secrets. Yet, in an enthralling web of desires, these two wounded people obtain solace and healing in each other's arms. Although the emotional aspect could have been more delicately handled and better expounded upon, this novel does raise certain salient questions - like the sexuality of women and inter-racial relationships in the puritan Victorian era. This is definitely not a light-hearted read - with controversial issues of adultery and homosexuality looming large and dark. Well, I suppose in romance fiction, anything goes! However, I felt that that its lush and sensous entertainment value made the book a good buy.
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Summary: For All Romantic Fiction Readers
Review: I will not comment on the storey line, because a lot of the other reviwes have touched upon it .I am an Arab, and truly ladies, I am sick to heart from all the illusions about sexuallity derived from the Arab culture. I will list my reasons 1-The harem theme is so redundent and overdone, I groan inwardly whenever I unknowingly buy a book with such a background. 2-The false representation such as: sexual education at 12 years old, the taking of one brother for another...etc. 3-I could not understand a single word of all the Arabic words so enticingly italicized. The sheer massacre of our languge (another infelt groan has just erupted while iam writing this)is so horrific that I cringe. I feel so sorry for people who are not arabs who read this because of the misconception that must filter to thier brains from the sheer repetion of falsificattions. Do peoplerelly believe this? Another tantalising thought is how muchfalsification authers indulge in when talking about a culture that Ido not know so well. Something to mull over, don't you think?
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Summary: Read it and form your own opinion.
Review: I was quite anxious to read The Lady's Tutor. After all, this is not the usual romance plot: A married woman living in the Victorian times looking for a way to seduce her husband to save her marriage by seeking out help in lessons in love from a man who is known as the Bastard Sheik. Hmmmm..... sounds interesting. The Lady's Tutor is a book that I find difficult to review because of the mixed emotions it gave me. I did'nt really enjoy it but it kept me up all through the night to finish reading it. Though well written, the plot, the setting and the characters were too dark for me. The eroticism in the book was not what I expected, it was a big sexual build up for the "moment supreme". After reading The Lady's Tutor it left me a sort of depressed feeling even though the ending was a happy one. You have to read The Lady's Tutor to find out for yourself and to form your own opinion. Some might find it wonderful and very romantic, some might find it very erotic and enjoyable.....me, well I guess this is just not my piece of cake.
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Summary: five stars but deducting one each for sodomy & pedophelia
Review: It's been 2 days since I finished The Lady's tutor. I still feel a bit uneasy and uncomfortable when I think back on the book. I wish and want to think about the many good parts of the book but I can't. I only picture the one sick/disgusting bedroom scene that I don't ever want to think about again. (sodomy) Then I think about what happens to her son. (pedophelia) I hear about these things in some "real-TV" shows. So why would I want to spend my good money on a book to read about that instead of something good in life? When I pick up a romance, I don't want perversion in my fairy tale fantasy world. I can't imagine any sane person wanting sordid ugliness in their fantasy/dream world. A friend of mine told me to skip those parts and concentrate on the good parts. Well, I wanted to do that. The good parts were really good. But when I was getting all hot & bothered by her great bedroom scenes and sex talk between the hero & heroine, why did she have to throw cold water in my face w/such horridness! Talk about ruining the mood! (She did this in the Lover too! I didn't bother to review that book since I agreed wholeheartedly with the review titled 9 & 1/2 weeks meets silence of the lambs. VERY on-the-mark) I like Schone's writing better than Bertrice Small. But when it comes to pure historic romance/erotica, Susan Johnson still reigns. Of course if you want sodomy and pedophilia thrown in with your romance/erotica, do read the Lady's Tutor. If you want incest thrown in w/your r/e, do read Bertrice Small's Skye O'malley. If you're like my friend and you believe you can over look the small bad parts, then please get this book for the good heated bantering that goes on between the hero & heroine. (this part of the book is worth five stars) I think the two talking is even hotter than when the two actually get to know each other in EVERY way. I have friends some of whom happen to be gay. I know there are men who like to dress as women. I know there are bad cruel parents in this world. I know awful things happen to the children of this world. I know I can go to the library and there are plenty of books on these subjects in the NON-FICTION section. But that does not mean I want any of this reality in my dream world. That is why I buy fiction. I want to read of a happy place where love is forever after and he loves her & she loves him(and the pleasure they give each other is wonderful & graphically detailed). And all the ugliness in the world, especially the illegal perverted stuff does not have a place there. Does it in yours?
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Summary: Schone pushes the envelope
Review: The Lady's Tutor is not an adventure-oriented romance. Its plot centers primarily on the discoveries Elizabeth Petrie makes about herself, and subsequently about everyone in her life, as she searches for happiness. Little by little, Elizabeth realizes that her surface wants signify deeper problems in nearly all of her relationships. She is a strong heroine who decides that her lot in life is not enough, that it's okay that she not only wants but DESERVES more from life--and she is determined to have it. Better yet, she gets stronger as the story goes along. Bravo to her! Elizabeth is not the standard romance heroine: she's older, married to someone other than the hero, has children for whom she is a good, devoted mother, and is only of average looks. How refreshing to read about such a woman! Ramiel is more of the traditional romance hero: Handsome, brooding, dominating, mysterious, and sexually, er...gifted, yet still appealing, especially after he opens up his sensitive side to Elizabeth. The gem of this book is Ramiel's mother, the Countess, who refuses to hang her head in shame for surviving being kidnapped by Arabs, becoming a sheik's concubine, and bearing him a child out of wedlock. Robin Schone is one of the rare writers who can dish out a scorching-hot romance with believable plots and characters. Most of the romance writers who focus on the sex in their books tend to let their plots disappear or, worse, their characters become either unsympathetic or one-dimensional. Or, sometimes BOTH. Schone does not make any of these mistakes. It's the best book she's written, thus far. READ IT, READ IT, READ IT!
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Summary: Fantastic, Erotic, Delicious, Amazing
Review: Lord Safyre is a spectacular character - his own demons mysterious and haunting and in need of healing that only Elizabeth can give him. She is amazing in her quest to find out more about femininty, and to fulfill her dreams of finding a true and lasting connection in sharing pleasure with a man. As he teaches and she learns (and between the amazing love scenes, that although some are purely verbal or cerebral, are still INCREDIBLY erotic) you realize that she is also teaching and he is learning what real love is. This is one to keep in your library PERMANENTLY.
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Summary: THE LADY'S TUTOR.BY ROBIN SCHONE.
Review: I LOVED THIS ONE. I COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN. EVERY PAGE THAT I READ SEEMED TO BURN WITH EROTICISM. THE PAGES WERE TOTALLY HOT.
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Summary: Five Stars For *H*O*T*
Review: I came across this title while looking at a Web site of romance novel covers. The original cover had the voluptuous torso of a Victorian lovely in an unlaced corset, chemise off her shoulders. In the background could be seen the shadow of an undressed male, his hand hovering at the woman's shoulder. A very erotic cover, for a very erotic book. THE LADY'S TUTOR is more than simply erotic, however. It verges (and there is more than one meaning for that innocent-seeming word!) on the raw. It's graphic and explicit, and truly not for everyone. This book, detailing the erotic/sexual education of a repressed Victorian wife by an extroardinarily studly half-Arabian/half-English lord, is understandably a cult favorite among aficionadas of the genre, and an education in and of itself. It will be difficult for readers to forget Elizabeth Petre and Ramiel, Lord Sayfre. The plot... is secondary to Elizabeth's tutoring in the erotic arts, and unsavory, as well. Nasty stuff, when all is finally revealed. Rating the secondary plot alone would probably bring this down to 3 stars, but the primary plot, the thrust (!) if you will, is the interaction of the two protagonists. All else pales by comparison.
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Summary: Very good
Review: Let me say right off that I liked this book very much. However, there were many annoying points in the story. First, when a woman hasn't had sex with her husband in 12 yrs, how can she not realize this is a problem. In addition, how can she act upset when he takes a "mistress". How can she not see what a heartless man she's married to, and a corrupted family she comes from. It's like she's had blinders on for 33 yrs and in 2 weeks Ramiel opens her eyes. The strange thing is I ended up liking Elizabeth very much. She fights for the things she thinks are important. First to win back her husband (until she realizes he's not worth it), then fighting for her sons, and of course fighting for Ramiel's heart. Most of the reviews for this book seem concerned about it's erotic nature. If you are supposed to be teaching someone about sex and passion, you're pretty much going to have to talk about sex and passion. Many of the scenes are explicit, but more in a clinical way rather than a carnal way. However, it is very sexual...so be forewarned. The pace of the story was fast, and the secrets of each person was uncovered in a layer by layer way that was very intriguing. This is a brisk and bold book with characters that engage you thoroughly. If you want something enjoyable and daring, this is it! KCS
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