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Summary: Entertaining and not cerebral.
Review: I recently purchased the book in preparation for a long, boring business trip. Unfortunately, I finished it before I left. This is a story that despite unsophisticated writing, keeps you involved. I had a very hard time putting it down and oftened giggled outloud while reading. Actually, there were times that I could certainly relate to some of the stupid things the heroine gets herself into. My only problem was the continued whipping of the heroine with a switch. After the first couple of times, I found myself skipping over it. Oh well. A fun book to inhale at an airport or bus terminal. Or better yet, in a motel room where nobody can hear your snickering.
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Summary: Well....if you're open-minded or male it's interesting.
Review: I recently started reading Sharon Green and she has a real penchant for alternately weak/strong female leads and somewhat overbearing male characters. In this particular book the female lead is in a "sex-slave" type situation and there are repeated beatings and rapes. Before you stop reading this in astonished horror there are some mitigating circumstances. This psuedo-slavery takes place on a planet where the civilization is pre-Middle ages and quite literally "might makes right" creating an extreme patriarchal society. Although the protaganist winds up enjoying her psuedo-slavery position and this is FRUSTRATING as I personally felt rather repulsed by her situation despite the many justifications for it... it's interesting to get inside the minds of a submissive/dominant pair. The chance to vicarously see another sexual/lifestyle viewpoint within a sci-fi setting is the only redeeming quality of this book. Don't take it too personal, accept that everyone has the right to choose their lifestyle and it will be a fairly decent read.
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Summary: Well....if you're open-minded or male it's interesting.
Review: I recently started reading Sharon Green and she has a real penchant for alternately weak/strong female leads and somewhat overbearing male characters. In this particular book the female lead is in a "sex-slave" type situation and there are repeated beatings and rapes. Before you stop reading this in astonished horror there are some mitigating circumstances. This psuedo-slavery takes place on a planet where the civilization is pre-Middle ages and quite literally "might makes right" creating an extreme patriarchal society. Although the protaganist winds up enjoying her psuedo-slavery position and this is FRUSTRATING as I personally felt rather repulsed by her situation despite the many justifications for it... it's interesting to get inside the minds of a submissive/dominant pair. The chance to vicarously see another sexual/lifestyle viewpoint within a sci-fi setting is the only redeeming quality of this book. Don't take it too personal, accept that everyone has the right to choose their lifestyle and it will be a fairly decent read.
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Summary: Enjoyed this Book
Review: I think I'd class this as a "dark romance", which is to say a romance which doesn't fit the Madison Avenue mold. It is a SF & F book, but the focus is on the characters rather than the backdrop of the book. I must say I enjoy Planet D/s more as erotic science fiction, but I like this book (and this author) much much better than Norman.
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Summary: Slime!
Review: It is hard to believe a woman wrote this book. The strong heroine is interesting but the leading man is a total jerk and I cannot see why she would want him. I do not see how this could be called erotica or sci-fi. I was very dissapointed in this book as the main theme of the book was "might is right". Because he was stronger than her and she could not stop him from beating/raping her or stop the other men he gave her to from beating/raping her, then he felt he was right to do it. This may have been erotica if she had enjoyed it too, but she obviously do not, so it just made him look more of a jerk. Although he did disagree with the female that she was a slave because, acording to him, he only beat her when he had a reason to beat her, whereas a slave got a beating for no reason at all. Understand the difference?
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Summary: way to sexist - very dissapointing a woman wrote this book
Review: It is hard to believe a woman wrote this book. The strong heroine is interesting but the leading man is a total jerk and I cannot see why she would want him. I do not see how this could be called erotica or sci-fi. I was very dissapointed in this book as the main theme of the book was "might is right". Because he was stronger than her and she could not stop him from beating/raping her or stop the other men he gave her to from beating/raping her, then he felt he was right to do it. This may have been erotica if she had enjoyed it too, but she obviously do not, so it just made him look more of a jerk. Although he did disagree with the female that she was a slave because, acording to him, he only beat her when he had a reason to beat her, whereas a slave got a beating for no reason at all. Understand the difference?
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Summary: Excellent, though hard to accept "little woman" slant.
Review: See review of Book 5 for more details. Basically, this story starts off as a selfish female who is more interested in punishing others because she "can". It outlines the role she has in her society, wherein she's subject to unquestioned authority on how she lives her life when "active" and virtually no restraints when "disabled". Deals with some of the same feminist ethics that the Jalav series touches on, but starts out in a much more American culture-specific fashion so that the woman reader is more likely to have some level of empathy and identification with the character in order to compel her to finish the story. By the end of the series, the character is much stronger, more in control of her moralistic viewpoint, and a much more 3-dimensional character whom we care about. Interesting and fun.
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Summary: Not exactly like Norman's Gor series
Review: Sharon Green has been compared to John Norman but her numerous books are not all female submissive and male dominant. While the Terrilian series leans toward the Mf style of relationship the female characters are strong and, at least in this book, keep fighting for dignity and freedom. I wish more time had been spent on the mindset and emotions of Tammad the barbarian who takes Terrilian as his diplomatic gift from Earth.
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Summary: One of my most favorite series ever.
Review: Though, as the person who panned it above notes (without realizing it) it's important to read the whole series. Sharon Green has a habit of leaving mid-series books with a pretty serious downturn at the end, and if you don't see where it goes after that, it can be fairly disturbing. This series in particular starts with the main character as spoiled brat and victim (though she, of course, doesn't think of herself that way) and breaks her in several ways before she finds her own true strength. That aside, this set of five is one that I reread every few months; as you can imagine, my set is getting pretty dog-eared. And it's a must for good powerplay based fiction. I've read nothing else that beats it.
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