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Summary: The perfect couple.
Review: Sweet Savage Love has all the twisted appeal of one of those R. L. Stein novels for teenagers. The heroine, Virginia Brandon, is such a bubble-headed tease that you want to slap her silly, the way the hero frequently does, which may be why you keep turning the pages. The hero, Steve Morgan, has the morals of an alley cat and little else to recommend him. His one redeeming quality is that he hates Virginia almost as much as you do. Each of them singly is mind-numbingly stupid, and the two of them together are positively Martian. The only sensible thing either one of them does is eat, drink, or sleep -- and even then, they usually screw it up. I think what I love best about this book is that end up married, and never did any couple deserve each other more.
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Summary: Entertaining But Not For Everyone
Review: Sweet Savage Love is about a naive girl full of romantic fancies who confronts the more lurid realities of life and love. Ginny is caught in more situations than some readers might find easy to swallow. There is also an element of forced seduction involving Ginny and Steve Morgan that readers might find offensive. However, there is a deep, unrecognized attraction between the hero and heroine that is not present in Ginny's other encounters. It is not mature love at first. However, most love takes time to grow. The novel is set in the background of the American Southwest and in Mexico during the rebellion against the Emperor Maximillian. The reader gets a small taste of history and the feel for the injustices and turmoil which resulted in this war. However, this is primarily a romance novel to entertain. Steve and Ginny both go through a lot but this does occur during a tumultous (sp?) time in history. Ginny's morals or lack thereof may sour some readers but she is the product of her upbringing and her experiences. Steve Morgans liasons with women are also not high up on the moral ladder but he is the typical male with double standards of whom there are plenty today. Sweet Savage Love is a novel to be enjoyed and not to be analyzed too seriously. Another good Rosemary Rogers novels which is completely separate from Steve and Ginny is The Wildest Heart. This second novel is not quite a dramatic as Sweet Savage Love. Readers might find it a bit easier to swallow.
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Summary: The Original Romance Novel
Review: Sweet Savage Love is, without doubt, the best of the best of historical romance. I first read it when I was 14 and I have since read many historical and modern romance, but never one with staying power like this one. Years later, one need only mention "Steve and Ginny" to any fan of romance novels to hear a sigh of satisfaction. Not only is it a passionate love story involving two strong-willed (and stubborn) characters, but it is also an interesting STORY. There is some historical accuracy to balance the fun. For anyone who has not yet read this one, it is the grandaddy of all romance novels. Check it out...no one has ever done it better. Not even Rosemary Rogers (I thought the two sequels were disappointing, to say the least)
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Summary: my dream story
Review: sweet savage love took away the heart of a 12years old nausheen. for 8 years i read this story almost daily and dreamed of steve and ginny. they became my true friends. they cheered me up in my depressing mood. steve and ginny became the stars whom i worshiped. i loved steve so much that i wanted him to be happy with ginny and whenever they parted i felt for them. in my prays i want them to be together forever. all this sounds silly but this is how i find this book. thanks rosemary rogers for this gift. they will remain in my memories forever.
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Summary: I've read it once a year for the past 20 years.
Review: Sweet Savage Love was the first romance I stole from my mother's shelf 20 years ago as a 12 year old. I have read it faithfully once a year ever since.Steve Morgan is the absolute perfect man. Sexy, rich, a combination cowboy, spy, soldier, millionaire. He is every girl's dream. Ginny is sweet, beautiful, and haughty, and the chemistry between the two is dynamic. From their first meeting in Sweet Savage Love, to the final scene in book 3, Lost Love, Last Love, the action in exciting, sexy, and tumultuous. You will be left breathless with a racing heart as you come to the last paragraph. I cannot recommend this book and it's sequels enough.
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Summary: The best of the best in historical romances
Review: The trilogy that begins with Sweet Savage Love is unforgetable.
Believe me, I have read hundreds of romances/historical romances/western romances, etc., and these books remain in my memory. I only wish that there could be "further adventures of Steve and Jinny." The plots are sometimes violent, the love scenes hot and steamy, but the characters remain vivid, so much so that I tend to re-read these books again and again, especially if I don't have anything else that can compare. Steve is every woman's dream. This book, and the sequels are much better than her "modern romances."
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Summary: Nothing sweet about this story
Review: This book was 700 pages of misery! I truly wish Rogers had spared us some of the absolutely ghastly episodes in this book. Not only did the hero and heroine spend the book hating each other, but the characters were dragged through the worst fate I can imagine. Episodes of rape, forced prostitution, and horrid beatings all occur. This is not a book anyone should read if they are seeking to escape the concerns of real life, the tale experienced here is surly worse and not a place I care to escape to. I will never read this book again; the only reason I finished it was that I could not bear to leave the characters in such misery! This tale is savage indeed!
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Summary: exciting but unpleasant
Review: This book was definitely full of suspense, action, and intrigue. However I think the author went past the point of the extreme. I have a healthy sense of morbid curiosity but even I was offended by the extended descriptions of rape, violence, and forced prostitution. And I'm not talking about between Steve and Ginny, I mean Ginny's career in prostitution. I think another reviewer hit the nail on the head when she said that obviously Ms. Rogers has never been forced to do something so unpleasant against her will. Reading about it in such detail made me sick to my stomach, wishing that escapade would be over soon. Why go into such detail about the times and ways in which Ginny was raped but only subtly allude to Steve being raped in the mine prison? Afraid of offending readers? HA! Ms. Rogers further alienated this reader by making the love story completely unbelievable. I can understand the passionate sex (I'm a big fan of bodice ripping), but love?? I don't think so. He did nothing to inspire Ginny's love except abuse and mistreat her, no matter how fantastic the sex was. I was terribly disappointed that by the end of the book I still found no reason for Ginny to love Steve, he was a horrible hero. I find myself interested in reading the next books (my morbid curiosity at work again) in the series to find out if their relationship ever develops, but I don't care to spend so many unpleasant hours reading the author's view of "passion and excitement".
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Summary: VERY GOOD BOOK
Review: This book was very good, in my opinion... rogers put love, deceit, hate, courage, and adoration all in one... all the while adding a historical edge to it. It kept me intrigued and never left me bored. I had no desire to put this book down. I even read it twice! You will fall in love with the characters and some parts may even touch your heart. Very good book. I would recommend it to anyone.
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Summary: This is my favorite romance book
Review: This is the greatest love story of all time. I love the characters Ginny and Steve, everything you can imagine happens to them. I've read this book over and over again, its that good
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