Midnight Lady

Rating:
Summary: Great Book
Review: I loved the book. I read it 3 times. I would suggest it to someone who loved romance. Rosemary Rogers gets into a lot of detail in this story. You easily understand the storyline, and you can almost imagine what is going on n detail in your head.

Rating:
Summary: Hysterical Romance
Review: If you are in to "Bodice Rippers" this is a good example, and you will probably love in even though it does not take place in the Highlands or on a pritate ship. Hero says I love you in the last 10 pages after brutal treatment which begins with his actually ripping her dress. We'd call this ABUSE. Why should a time period change the facts. Why would he suddenly do a turn around with no real character build up to make you believe it. As for the heroine, the 'oh dear, I'm just a sex slave and I can't do anything about it', is extremely trite even for bodice rippers.

Rating:
Summary: Still Queen of Romance, But Disappointing
Review: Unlike the other 'modern romance reviewers' here, my disappointment in this book is the fact that Rogers seems to have joined the mass of the "popular" romance genre writers as seen today in the market. Most romance authors today write fluff for the eighteenth century time period. The herione is always a virgin and the hero will always stay true to the herione while he is pursing a relationship with herione. Right.

Really, do you honestly believe that a woman without any means of funds or title could actually be the strong-willed woman of today's society in that time period? I'm sick and tired of reading the disappointing reviewers of Rogers previous books of how rude and sadistic the hero was or how the herione slept around. Let me ask you, were you a virgin when you got married? How many women and men can answer that with a yes today? Men were commonly known to behave that way then, mistresses for that matter were quite common and the women, if they were smart and strong-willed, did whatever they could to survive, by either offering themselves to a protector and or offering their lives to a marriage to someone they did not love.

Please, wake up and smell the coffee! Rogers' previous books were reality smothered with intense romantic conflict! It's got to take a woman of persistant nature and rigor to change a man whose used to doing things his way for eons, and honestly, it ain't going to happen over night to accomplish such a feat. I only wished that Rogers didn't listen to her editors by 'toning down' her books to fit the current fashion of romance books on the shelves today.

Michelle Harris