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Summary: Best book I have ever, ever, Read!!!
Review: This is the best Historical Romance I have ever read. It is also the first Historical Romance I ever read. It was about 15 years ago and I have read quite a few since then. Skye O'Malley is a Beautifully written, Hot, Sexy, Steamy, Passionate, and sad novel. I have read it numerous times and cannot get enough. I love the entire series but am sad to say that all the other historical romances I have read pale in comparison, and that is saying alot because I have read some good books. Any of you out there that like hot romance. Skye O' Malley is a must! Pick this one up if you have not already. Your in for a real treat. PS. Not for the wimpy, simpy, sappy, drippy types. This stuff is HOT!
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Summary: My favorite romance novel of all time
Review: I got Skye O'Malley from a friend who couldn't put it down. I asked if I could borrow it since she said it was a good book. When I read it, it took the jaws of life to get that thing out of my hands. Not only does this book have a good story to it, it has lots of sex to go with it! (It makes me wonder what kind of life Ms. Small has.)I give this 5 stars cause of it's acurate sex content and good story. Good job Ms. Small!!
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Summary: ON OF MS SMALLS BEST WORKS
Review: SKYE WAS THE FIRST OF THE BOOKS I BOUGHT.THEN I FOUND OUT ABOUT OTHERS IN PRINT [EX; THE KADIN] NOW AFTER READING MS SMALLS BOOKS FOR THE LAST 16 YEARS OR MORE I AM ALWAYS WAITING FOR THE NEWEST BOOK LIKE AN OLD FREIND
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Summary: Simply Great!!
Review: This was a great book full of adventure, and a overpowering love that over came the several obstacles.
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Summary: Completely mesmirizing
Review: I have always had an intrest of the time period and Small's sharp mind has given me a window in which to see the Elizabethan world. I've read all the Skye O'Malley books except A Love for All Time (I can't seem to find it) and I've also read some of her other books and I must say that I love her work. These books aren't only for the bored housewife, I am a college student and would love to meet Bertrice Small.
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Summary: I LOVED IT!
Review: I only recently began reading Romance novels.
Beatrice Small is one of my favorite authors.
Skye O'Malley is wonderful character
with character and a strong will to survive.
I am looking hi and lo for "A Love for all Time." I just can't get enough of Skye.
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Summary: I Absolutely Loved this Book!
Review: I first was introduced to Skye O'Malley when I got a copy of the 3rd book in the series "A Love for All Time", then went back to find "Skye" Since then, 1980 somewhere,I've read this book so often, I'm on my 2nd copy ; I enjoy it so very much I highly reccommend this book to all and sundry.
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Summary: Not Romance, But Soft Porn Poorly Written
Review: No novel exists in a literary vacuum. To render a review of Skye O'Malley within the confines of the romance genre is nothing but a farce. This book exists for anyone to pick up and suffer through--not just those familiar with the hackneyed romance genre. Therefore, I judge Sky O'Malley first on its merits as an individual piece of literature--or what little merit the book has. Purple prose is a horrendous excuse for writing, and Ms. Small has the most purple touch of any author I have encountered. Her depictions of female slave trading and the like are highly insulting to women. I also find her marked bias against female homosexual acts to be reprehensible. To be fair, let me consider Skye O'Malley as part of the genre in which it is lodged. It doesn't belong there. The book is one endless sexual fantasy played out with multiple partners on multiple levels. The main character, Skye, is "too sensuous" a woman to deny herself the dubitable pleasures of sex at the hands of her abusive first husband. In brief, I do not believe there is an ounce of emotion in Skye's perfect body. That is what makes this porn, not romance.
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Summary: My husband loves when I read Bertrice Small...
Review: I was never one for historical romance novels. When a friend loaned me Skye O'Malley to read, it came with her review of "The best sex book she has ever read". I thought I'd give it a shot. Heck, I didn't have to pay for it. Well, let me tell you something, Skye has been passed around quite a bit by now and I myself have bought every other book in the series (except "A love for all time, cant' find it"). I find them extremely interesting reading from the historical people and places to her beautiful descriptions of fashion and decor. I can picture it so vividly in my mind. Of course the SEX is very imaginative and makes me wonder what Bertrice's research consisted of. I was particularly amazed when I ran across an actual picture of the real Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. I have taken an interest in this period of time and would like to see for myself who actually existed in these novels. When I finished one book I couldn't wait to start the next. I missed my "family" as I like to call them. I am now looking forward to immersing myself in another of Bertrice Small's stories and cannot wait. Thank you Bertrice.
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Summary: It is, after all, a Historical Romance
Review: (The rating above is within the genre of Historical Romance, not in comparison to War and Peace!) Sure it has very purple prose. But it is a Historical Romance - what do you expect? I'm not a major genre fan but I do kind of enjoy Bertrice Small's books. What makes then fun? Lots of historical details (accurate or not), lots of descriptions of yummy food, lots of gorgeous men and women and clothes and jewels and houses, and of course, lots and lots of sex. There is probably more sex (some of it quite graphic, almost always heterosexual) in Bertrice Small novels than in most other historical romances. Skye O'Malley is the most famous of her books, and if you like this one, you'll probably like the others - if you fall in love with the heroine herself, you can folow the amazingly complicated saga of her life for several more books. It has most of the usual plot lines she favors - awakening of a virgin, main female character who has money sense, abduction to a harem in the non-Christian (usually somewhere in the Ottoman Empire) world, etc. Sure, it's silly, but you can't always read War and Peace.
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