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Title: Pure Sin by Susan Johnson ISBN: 0553299565 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: December, 1994 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33
Rating: 5
Summary: Sizzling hot
Comment: Pure Sin was my first Johnson book and I was pleasantly surprised. I thought her to be in the same league than Schone and writing mainly about sex, but this wasn't the case. There was surprisingly a romantic love story in there. Although the book started quite steamy with a hot encounter between the heroes in an open carriage (shortly after the "How do you do" introduction)the merely lust-based relationship soon developed into something more substantial. I liked Flora, the heroine. She was a lot different from the typical romance novel virginal spinster or sexually frustrated widow type. She was the exact counterpart of the usual Regency and Victorian rogue type: Single, rich, titled, very independent, urbane, sophisticated, free-loving and proud of her sexual magnetism , skilled in the art of seduction. I found it very amusing when Adam Serre, Comte de Chastellux, the sexy half-bred hero who is in every way her true match asks himself jealously what sort of experience Lady Flora has made and how many lovers she had had, and if she did that sort of thing with another man before. Usually these are the questions the anxious virgin in a typical romance novel asks herself about the roguish hero. What I also liked about the heroine was that she was the true beau ideal of the Victorian era: Voluptuous and curvaceous and that men went mad about her exactly because of that. And also the side information Johnson gives about time, place and habits seem to be historically correct. The footnotes contained interesting historical information about e.g. marriage laws in France and Montana.
Rating: 5
Summary: This book will make you an instant Susan Johnson fan.
Comment: This book is what historical romance is all about. Flora is one of her best characters ever. Her independance in a man's world is inspiring. Adam has all of the characteristics of a truly wonderful hero. I love the combination of native american ruggedness and the sauve continental man. His is one of the sexiest characters I have ever read. I absolutely loved it. I would love for her to make this into a continuing saga as she did with the Braddock's and the Kuzan's.
Rating: 5
Summary: Up in the sky
Comment: I've read all of Susan Johnson's books and this one if one of my favorites. All her books sizzle with the sex scenes, but I liked the fact that they knew there was a connection between them from the beginning.
Flora's character is the type of heroine anyone would strive to be, and Adam was the perfect "gentleman" all throughout the book. The power of unity is evident in this book...although they had many obstacles, they were able to overcome them together.
I really wish Ms. Johnson would go back to writing more about the romance between the hero and the heroine, though. For some reason, she's been going back to her original roots--that of the historian--more and more. Don't get me wrong, I like to read the historical events in her books, but I would love to read more about the characters themselves and less about the history in the future. I hope her new book, LEGENDARY LOVER is more about the relationship between the characters and have the hero stay faithful to the heroine. After all, it is a romance.
S.
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Title: Forbidden by Susan Johnson ISBN: 0553291254 Publisher: Fanfare Pub. Date: September, 1991 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Wicked by Susan Johnson ISBN: 0553572148 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: January, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Brazen by Susan Johnson ISBN: 055357213X Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: November, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Outlaw by Susan Johnson ISBN: 0553299557 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: July, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Sinful by Susan Johnson ISBN: 0553293125 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: February, 1993 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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