No Gentle Love

Rating:
Summary: Very Violent
Review: I gave this book three stars because it was a very good,exciting story. However, there was a lot of violence. There were numerous incidents of marital rape that the sensitive reader might find repulsive,and the hero did slap the heroine many times. Normally, this would repulse me but you have to read the whole story to understand the violent context. The love between the hero and heroine was very real and touching. Before judging the story on the title, I recommend that you read the book and make the decision on your own.

Rating:
Summary: What a awful book
Review: I have read many books by Rebecca Brandewyne and I could not believe that she wrote this. Her heroes are often volatile, and passionate but they are never cruel or abusive. The hero in this book, Rian, is an abusive vicious man with a cruel streak a mile wide. He raped the heroine repeatedly and slapped her around when he was angry with her. He slapped her hard enough one time that she had a bruise on the side of her face. He never felt any remorse for how he treated her. There was one time when he slapped her three times, raped her, and told her that if that she fought him he would break her arm. The heroine, Morgana, needed to be in a battered wife's shelter, not in this marriage.

Rating:
Summary: I Read This Book A Few Years Ago.
Review: This was the first book that I have read by R. Brandewyne and of all the 15 books of her's that I went on to read, it remains my favorite. It was a keeper for me. This book was written 20 years ago and many of today's sensitive readers would not like this book because of the strong and sometimes harsh storyline. The hero was a man to read about and to dream of but one would not want to be married to him in reality. He's not a man you can wrap around your little finger. If this were a contemporary novel, I would agree with the reviewer just below. However, in those days, there were no women's shelters. You had to rely on yourself, your family and whatever resources that were available to you; which was few if you lived in the isolated estates that were common to these types of historical romances.