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Title: Seized by Love by Susan Johnson ISBN: 0-553-56327-0 Publisher: Fanfare Pub. Date: 01 April, 1994 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (9 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Very Nice and Sexy
Comment: Nikki, the hero, is a spoiled rich man determined to get his own way no matter his heart tells him that is wrong. He has no wish to marry Alisa, but he doesn't want anyone else to have her either. Alisa has been abused and longs for someone to love her. Nikki wakes the passionate women that has lay dormant through the six years of her marriage to a disgusting senior citizen. Only the determination of Nikki father, to have his son marry forces Nikki's hand. Even then he sulks like the spoiled child he is.
Rating: 4
Summary: Realism, whether you like it or not...
Comment: I read most anything by Susan Johnson, although I don't like everything she writes. By far, the biggest reason that I read her is her ability to meld history and sex with wit and style. Outlaw, for instance, has some genuinely good writing and well-researched history.
Reading this book, however, was kind of a shock. You talk about spousal abuse... The heroine's first husband was a physically abusive demented religious zealot many decades her senior, her lover (the hero) turns out to be a psychologically abusive man who desires her (and her submission) obsessively. My initial reaction to this book was "ick."
Upon reflection, though, I have truly come to appreciate this book. It is in no way a typical romance story; if you are looking for "maltreated virginal heroine finds sappy romance with adoring lover" this book is NOT for you. But Johnson's hallmark is historical realism, and let's be honest, Tzarist Russia was not exactly a hotbed of women's rights.
I have hashed this out with friends who argue that romantic fiction is exatly that - not intended to be realistic. On the other hand, the "bad boy" figure in romance tends to be a neutered caricature: rake until he meets the perfect sex partner, then he's just as tame as can be. This book presents the hero as a true bad boy, atrocious ego and all. The scene where Nikki comes from a liason with a former mistress to a pregnant Alissa's bed is a perfect example of this - revolting to modern sensibilities, but probably not out of the norm for a Russian prince 250 years ago.
So, thank you Ms. Johnson for injecting a true note of reality - along with some great sex scenes - into the world of romance.
Rating: 2
Summary: Ugh
Comment: It says somethign when even I don't like a book. I can take an abusive hero as long as in the end he apologizes or somehow atones. This guy was completely undeserving of the heroines love. He was cruel and indecisive and he doesn't know the meaning of the word "fidelity." Actually, even his father who is supposedly madly in love with his wife isn't faithful to her.
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Title: Sweet Love, Survive by Susan Johnson ISBN: 0553563297 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Love Storm by Susan Johnson ISBN: 0553563289 Publisher: Fanfare Pub. Date: 01 April, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Outlaw by Susan Johnson ISBN: 0553299557 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 October, 1993 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Wicked by Susan Johnson ISBN: 0553572148 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 December, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Forbidden by Susan Johnson ISBN: 0553291254 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 August, 1991 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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