| The Love Slave | 
 enlarge | Author: Bertrice Small
Publisher: Ivy Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  53 reviews
Sales Rank: 194749
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 432
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0449002136
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780449002131
ASIN: 0449002136
Publication Date: August 30, 1997
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 Wonderfully Bertrice May 20, 2008
This book is a wonderful example of how Bertrice Small takes her knowledge of history, and beautiful skill of writing to create a romance novel that you a hard pressed to put down. She adds just the right amount of erotica to titillate, but not disturb. If you like romance novels with twists, turns and heroines with spunk, you will love this book and other works from the creative mind of Ms. Smalls.
Great book May 2, 2008
This is my second all time favorite book! It is pretty graphic...would recommend that adults only read this. It is a story about the things that happen to this woman throughout her life...good and bad. A very captivating read!!
Hot July 25, 2007
Despite the shocking rape scenes in the novel, it is quite a very good read. I just skip along the sex and continue reading as the plot thickens. Zaynab is quite a formidable young woman and despite the attempts on her life she lives out of love for her teacher and lover.
Bertrice is always good September 13, 2005
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
It is true, to me her books are always good but be forewarned this one like many of her books has its shocking scenes- this was one of the rare times where I was actually more into the beginning half of the book than the second!
The only thing I would really like to have seen/ known is what happened to her twin in the end- how it all worked out. That and a little payback to the nun!
For those of you that love the bread and butter one man- one woman forever romances, you will probably not like this book!
Good fantasy, but a romanticised view of a world problem July 31, 2005
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
Sexual slavery is a worldwide problem, even today in the 21st century, with hundreds of thousands of women and children subjected to this horror every year. It has been around for thousands of years and is not a problem to be taken lightly.
In Bertrice Small's The Love Slave, the author paints a picture of a woman whose life was so horrible, and whose slavery was so romantic that it is preferable to her original life. Set in the mid-tenth century, Regan is a Scottish girl whose family has been murdered by a neighboring clan. She is carried off by a Norse slaver to be sold in the slave markets of Dublin. Her outstanding beauty catches the attention of a Dublin trader who buys her as a present for the caliph of Cordoba. He must owe the caliph big time because, he not only fills a ship with goods, he also hires Karim the ship's owner, who is a Master at training love slaves, to train Regan to please the caliph.
In addition to this book being in the Historical Romance genre, it is for mature audiences. The author describes in detail the sexual behavior of her characters. She has also done enough research to create historically accurate settings and characters. The caliph of Cordoba is based on the real Abd ar-Rahman III (891-961), the greatest and the most successful of the princes of his dynasty in Spain. He is accused of having sunk in his later years into the self-indulgent habits of the harem. Which is where we find him with Regan, whose name has been changed to Zaynab, "the beautiful one."
Of course, Zaynab and Karim had fallen deeply into eternal love during her training. Their parting in Cordoba breaks both their hearts and the reader spends the rest of the book wondering if they can ever be reunited. If you can stand the sexual heat, this is a great example of historical romance.
The last words of the caliph Abd ar-Rahman III are said to have been "I have known only fourteen happy days in my life." After reading The Love Slave, you will have a good idea how those days were spent.
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