Customer Reviews

Elena's Conquest (Black Lace)

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

In the brutal medieval time period, Elena, a beautiful young Saxon girl raised by nuns, finds her life turned upside down when the convent is attacked by Normans. She's taken prisoner and made a slave of a brutal warrior who despises "the filthy Saxon's", especially the woman, because he'd been betrayed by one years earlier. He intends to punish her for this past woman's transgressions and instead finds himself becoming her protector. Her innocence and innate sweetness weaken his hardened heart but his jealous mistress attempts to do everything in her power to make his precious Elena suffer sexual torments.

I didn't like these characters very much. Elena had absolutely no back bone and I was annoyed that she fell in love/lust with her brutish captor almost upon first sight. She seemed to have no trouble submitting to an enemy who destroyed everything she'd every known. He did attempt to protect her from his vicious minions but I couldn't understand why she surrendered without putting up any kind of fight and just laid back and let anyone and everyone do whatever they wished with her body. I had no respect for her character and was more interested in the sex lives of the interesting secondary characters.

With all of that out of the way I did enjoy this book on a carnal level. The sex scenes were earthy, gritty and exciting and the historical details were done well enough to place me in the time period the author was writing about. I only wish Elena had been written with a little more spunk, even her thoughts were weak and submissive. There were several f/f and group sex scenes in this story along with several f/m ones and there are a few where the heroine is tied up and helpless. It was sexy reading but just don't expect to feel any sympathy for the wimpy heroine.

With a plot and characters so shallow you wouldn't dampen your feet if you stepped in them, Lisette Allen unsucessfully attempts to drag us into a time when apparently the most urgent and pressing activity was who was 'laving' who.

The dialogue could be improved only by removal of the incredibly trite verbage and descriptions of the character's encounters with each other. Over-done reptitions of euphemisms that strive for provocative and end up ridiculous, add another nail to this horrible waste of ink and paper.

The "editor" of this book should have his or her credentials reviewed for failing to catch any of the half dozen or so spelling errors, or any of the myraid grammatical slips.

All in all, I'd rather have spent time reading a dissertation on the mating life of the average garden slug; both are about as stimulating.

This is my favourite all time erotic fiction. A young innocent is seduced by her cynical captor, and in turn unknowingly seduces him.

with alot of sex, sex, sex through out the book.(m/f,f/f,m/m, multiple partners) After reading the reviews below, I was reluctant to purchase this book. I am really not into timid heroines who bow down to the alpha male, but in this particular story, it was not really hard to understand why Elena acted as she did. The story starts out in the year 1070 when a norman soldier (Aimery) abducts a saxon maiden (Elena) from a convent and takes her to his castle to be a slave for himself and his mistress Isobel. Elena has led a very sheltered life and as she states in the book (has always followed what she was told to do whether from the nuns or as a slave for Aimery.) The hero does come off as a doltish brute who thinks only of his pleasure but soon mellows out when he starts to think of Elena as more than just a slave. Isobel soon becomes jealous of Aimery's obsession with Elena and sets out to get rid of her rival with sex, lies and trickery. I really did not think this was a bad read and the sex more than made up for the heroines timidness.

This is one of my favorite of the Black Lace series. I prefer to think of Elena as gentle and loving and Aimery as a man who has never been exposed to the power of love. Elena's innocence is his undoing, totally seducing him, while the overblown charms of the jaded Isabele pale in comparison. This is a wonderful interpretation of the classic "innocent young virgin meets worldly older man" theme. I appreciate that there is a very well-crafted story here, layered with lots of GREAT sex in just about any combination you could imagine. As far as I'm concerned, this is an essential part of any collection.

I'm a huge medieval fan, I just can't get enough information on the time period. So it is a treat to have an erotic book set in that time period. The details were not so horribly off, and the sex was hot. I must agree the main charachter was weak, the fiesty redhead at the begening was more interesting by far. This book adds some nice spice to my mediveal mindset though, and I just love the photograph on the cover. Is it possible to purchase these to frame???