Sweet Savage Love

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Summary: DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK I WARN YOU!
Review: Alright, first let me say that I was looking up a good romance book set on a friend's opinion. I came across Rosemary Rogers "Sweet Savage Love." I read the reviews, many said that this book was great, the love scenes were a bit brutal at times, and that Ginny's prostitution was unsuitbale. GIVE ME A BREAK! First off, let me say that Ginny was KIDNAPPED by Steve Morgan against her will. Steve considered her his plaything and nothing more. He continually plays with her heart and her body and feeling no remorse. They get married and i swear, he has sex with atleast 10 other women, while Ginny gets raped about 10 times defending Steve. When Steve finds out about this, he goes on to call her a whore, about 30 times in the whole book, even though she stood up for him! On their wedding night he was off fiddling with a slave girl!Not to mention there are so many questions i have. There are people in the stories brought in, babies, friends, women, and in the next minute they drop of out the scene and you have no idea where they went. Steve IS NOT hero, and this IS NOT a love story. If you want a love story, an actual ROMANCE, then please find other authors.

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Summary: Nothing sweet about this story
Review: Curiosity got the better of me so I bought this novel. Even though the story started off slow for me, I finished this book quickly, eager to find out what the fuss was all about. Well, there's definitely nothing sweet about Steve and Ginny's story. If you like your historical romance saccharine, then you may want to stay away from this book. However, if you could keep an open mind and just think that this is fiction, it is certainly worth reading.

Steve and Ginny are probably one of the most memorable couples you'll read about - they're not your average Romeo and Juliet. Their love/lust for each other verges on self-destruction, and some of their actions leave little to be desired, however, I couldn't help but feel for them, as despite being dragged through all kinds of abuse, humiliation and degradation, they emerge stronger than before.

I do have a couple of issues though. One of them is the number of times that Ginny was assaulted. Once was enough, but repeatedly? I could understand how some would feel reading about it. It was too much! My other issue is the length of the novel. At 700 pages long, I felt that the author could have done better with the ending. It just seemed too abrupt. Considering how Steve and Ginny have separated, reunited, separated and reunited once more, all those times feeling hate for each other and concealing their true feelings, it was as if the author just decided to rush the last 4 pages just to finish off the book. C'mon! I wanted more. I wanted to see them reunited with their family and celebrate. I at least wanted to see them walk hand in hand strolling in the garden or something like that. I guess I will have to read the next instalments to appease my curiosity and see if they finally get the ending I craved for in this book.


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Summary: A Waste of My Money!!
Review: I bought the audiobook recording for Rosemary Rogers Sweet Savage Love and it is an abridged audio not unabridged as listed, it is only on one cassette tape and only about 90 minutes in length but even with this very condensed audio recording I could still tell that it wasn't a very pleasant story and it has some extremely unlikeable characters and this audiobook was just not good enough for the keeper shelf and it was a waste of my money!

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Summary: Scarlett and Rhett move over....
Review: I have read all the of Rosemary Rogers books based on the Steve and Ginny saga. I think that I must have been 15 at the time that I read these books and I am now 35. Even by today's standard, these books are one of the best in historical romance. I loved the relationship with Steve and Ginny. It was not your average Princess meets Prince and falls in love and lives happily ever after. Steve and Ginny had their ups and downs, they loved each other to distraction and when they were hating each other you could actually feel the dept of their hatred.

The best thing I like about this series was that Rosemary Rogers made you feel and care about Steve and Ginny and even when they were apart, I was alway rooting for them to stop wasting time and get back together.

If you like historical romances, this book will be the place to start. If by the end of the series you do not have any feeling for Steve and Ginny then I would suggest you start all over again because you must have missed something.

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Summary: An exceptional insight into the human psyche
Review: I know that a lot of readers were a bit enraged over the whole date-rape thing, but I think that both Ginny and Steve used the excuse of rape to mask their feelings for eachother, and excuse an act that, according to moral code at the time, should not have happened. Why should there only be daring and free heroes? Why is it wrong for heroines to explore the dark side of their passionate natures and delve into the nether regions of their souls? Ginny showed us that a woman can be strong as well as beautiful and loving and giving. Rosemary Rogers should be acclaimed for her ground-breaking work in a time when her concepts were taboo. I have read Sweet Savage Love many times, and I plan to do so again.

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Summary: Could Have Been Better!
Review: I listened to an audio recording of Rosemary Rogers Sweet Savage Love and I like Historical romances but I didn't like this story or the characters and I was very disappointed and this was the only Rosemary Rogers book I ever tried but just because I didn't like this one doesn't mean that I will never read or listen to anything else by this author and I will definitely give her other books a try!

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Summary: It's a changing world... This was written a long time ago!
Review: I love this book and I have for a long time. I've looked through the other reviews in here and I realize how much the world of romance novels has changed over the 25 years I've been reading them.
No, this isn't a pleasant story at times. It's not Cinderella rewritten for the year 2000 like so many romances are.
Many people complain about the title -- at that point in time (and maybe this still happens) the publishers had a list of romance novel names and they just grabbed the next one on the list that sort of fit. In this case it happened to be Sweet Savage Love.
This isn't always a nice story, but it has very real characters who aren't predictable in the least. Very brutal things happen to them and they still love each other. I've always felt that was the point of the story and what made the characters so real and appealing. No matter what happened, they managed to forgive each other and continue to love each other.
If you are looking for sweet, predictable romance, this isn't it. If you're looking for something a little different from the romance of 2004, you've found it. Just be ready for a heroine who is really abused by the bad guys (and sometimes the good guy) and who has to rescue herself and fight for what she wants. Then be ready for a hero who really isn't nice sometimes and has a life beyond the heroine -- including other romatic involvements that aren't just 'misunderstandings'.

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Summary: Sweet Savage Love
Review: I loved this book!! Years ago I read Lost Love, Last Love and fell in love with Steve and Ginny. Imagaine my shock when I learned it was the third book on these characters. I immediately bought the first two and have been a fan since. I connected with both characters, felt their weaknesses and strengths, their highs and lows. I would recommend this book to any.

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Summary: Controversial
Review: I originally read this book when I was 15 years old and enjoyed it then, however, my mother loved this book and became a dedicated follower of the author. After reading 'Sweet Savage Love' years later, 1997, I discovered why she fell in love with the book, then. The novelist broke all the rules in the 1970s. The novelist made groundbreaking steps for new writers to emerge and shamelessly pen steamy, sensual and very graphic sexual or lovemaking scenes. Rosemary Rogers was one of the first to walk that untrodden path of penning explicit sex, however, Rosemary Rogers has a passion for sexual assault, as found in many of her books. The genre that every woman wants to be raped by her lover is ridiculous, especially if you've ever been forced to submit against your will (which obviously Rogers has not had to experience). But in Ginny and Steve's case, I believe that Ginny submitted because she wanted to. She allowed Steve to 'assault' her because she was just as enthralled with Steve Morgan as he with she. Lust ruled their relationship. They both were strong willed stubborn people whom were first attracted through lust. Love, if it did, came much later, after their children were grown in 'Bound By Desire'. But I enjoyed 'Sweet Savage Love' and enjoyed the characters. But I am not a fan of Rosemary Rogers. One negative fault with Rogers is the permiscuous nature of Ginny. Taboo. Not accepted by many romance readers. Romance readers can deal with the male's permiscuous activities, however, if he doesn't get his act together and loves the heroine with total devotion towards the end of the novel, then he is considered a candidate for penicillin and obviously lacks understanding on the definition of love. But 'Sweet Savage Love' still remains an all-time favorite of mine. What kept 'Sweet Savage Love' a favorite of mine was the excitement and adventure of capturing the gold, being on the run from the law, toppling governments and thwarting armies, etc. Steve Morgan was in essence an 1860s 'James Bond'. Yes, he is a 'secret service' agent for the United States government. A profession you don't find in many historical American romance novels. So if you enjoy excitement, adventure, intrique, and some 'I Spy', combined with passion, spunk, and plain old 'lust', you'll enjoy the timeless classic 'Sweet Savage Love'. But reader beware, this is not your typical romance novel and if you're a devoted fan of Johanna Lindsay, stay away from 'Sweet Savage Love'.

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Summary: the first bodice ripper
Review: I read Sweet Savage Love when I was twelve and after having been reaised on Barbara Cartland's my goodness, what a suprise it was! Rosemary Rogers is the mother of the bodice ripper genre. Actually, quite a bit more than bodices were ripped in a Rogers book and some readers will be shocked by the near violent, intensity of Steve and Ginny's sex life. It was an incredible book when it was first published and echoes of it remain today in any hot/sexy romance novel you pick up.