Captive Splendors [Mass Market Paperback]

Fern Michaels (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Ivy Books (January 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0345916336
• ISBN-13: 978-0345916334
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Fern Michaels is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Fool Me Once, Sweet Revenge, The Nosy Neighbor, Pretty Woman, and dozens of other novels and novellas. There are over seventy million copies of her books in print. Fern Michaels has built and funded several large day-care centers in her hometown, and is a passionate animal lover who has outfitted police dogs across the country with special bulletproof vests. She shares her home in South Carolina with her four dogs and a resident ghost named Mary Margaret.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars You've got to be kidding me!, August 22, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Captive Splendors: A Novel (Mass Market Paperback)

As a big fan of historical romances, I was sorely disappointed in the substance, or lack thereof, in this novel. The heroine, a term that I have to use very lightly in this case, was put in one stupid, horrible, and then unbelievable situation after another, yet it seemed that she did not learn from any of them. She seemed to be able to best an opponent two to three times her size, but was completely helpless and witless with a lesser opponent. The author lost creditbiliy with her audience, me, when she started to add pieces to the storyline that had no rhyme or reason.

When I read historical romances, I want to be transported to another place and time and usually try to imagine how I would feel or what I would say if I were placed in the same position as the heroine. Unfortunately, I found myself saying out loud several times while reading this novel; "you've got to be kidding me!"

This was my first Fern Michaels novel, and quite possibly my last. I have heard good things about her as an author but I am afraid to waste my precious reading time with another of her novels for fear that it too would lack credibiity and imagination.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Captive Splendor, May 23, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Captive Splendors: A Novel (Mass Market Paperback)

This story was horrible! Instead of a strong street smart female character that emerge from the "most horrible experience" a woman can be subjected to, I read about an individual who allows herself to be duped into another horrible situation. There was no growth, depth or strength in this heroine. This is one book we can all do without reading!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, April 8, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Captive Splendors (Mass Market Paperback)

I loved "Captive Passions" but this one was a disappointment. There are mistakes in the book (some of the characters' names are wrong) and the plot was a rehash of "Captive Passions" but with less-intelligent and less likeable characters.