Oh my god. Bertrice Small. Why did I even try?Um, it’s a Bertrice Small book. I went into it expecting it to be pretty bad. And it is. Bad and dated and full of revenge sex. Also, set in a harem, so there is this one scene that, had it not been paraphrased by the female participants in conversation with other women, would have been straight-up erotica rather than romance. Not that that’s a bad thing. It’s just that at some point, you reach a level of graphicness that pulls a book out of the romance genre and pushes it over into erotica. And Bertrice Small? Bertrice Small is the queen of this stuff.Anyway, it’s set in the 17th century, but it’s a 17th century that never ever happened. Filled with silly names and impossible doings and punishing kisses and kidnappings and DRAHMA. Seriously, so many llamas it could be a petting zoo.Sweet baby Jesus, but the genre has changed in … this was published in 1999? What!? I thought this was from the ’70s or ’80s! Bertrice Small must be stopped!
