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2.0 out of 5 stars
Not quite what I thought..., August 13, 2008
This review is from: The Highest Price for Passion (Paperback)
After a long and unknown delay (at least to me) this book makes it to the shelves. I saw this book probably 2 years ago and the cover jumped out grabbed my attention. The fact that it was being published by Strebor Books made its stock jump a few notches as well.
So when I saw it in my store I was very excited! At the very beginning this book has some bite because it was brutal, sexual, mean, and driven. Unfortunately it slowed down and slowed down QUICK! I'll tell you first the things that I did like. The story itself was good and the main characters (or so I thought) weren't spared when the story called for them to be beaten, raped, killed, shot at, humiliated, bought, sold, whatever! I appreciate when an author just goes with the story and lets it tell itself. I wish she would have stuck with that.
Now for the bad parts: I don't know if the publisher was just tired of waiting on this one, if the author was rushed to finish this or what but this was just not a good read. The author jumped around a lot between time periods and never really made it clear a lot of the time which character was narrating. She switched between first, second, and third person and that slowed things down a lot! Now, a lot of authors will tell the story from a number of different characters point of view, however, the storytelling between the characters in this book did not flow at all.
She would tell us about a slave and then jump to telling us the story from that slaves parent's point of view, and then from the slave's parent's point of view from the future (or past). In my opinion it was too much and had a lot to do with why this wasn't a very good book. This was one of those books where I REALLY wanted it to be good because there is a lot here to work with and I did like the premise, the violence, and the sexuality. Some of the deeds the author describes are just plain mean and extremely painful and that is why I was drawn to the first part of this book. I just wish it didn't stop. There was too much jumping around, uneven dialogue, rushed storyline, and not enough cohesiveness to make this a worthwhile investment, whether it be time or money.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of the authors best!, August 30, 2008
This review is from: The Highest Price for Passion (Paperback)
This book was very, very good. I loved the slavery setting. This book was different from any other lesbian books i've read. Who would have thought about writing about homosexuality and slavery? Great book!
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Pretty good book, September 2, 2008
This review is from: The Highest Price for Passion (Paperback)
I enjoyed this book very much. Barely could put it down yet was mostly intrigued by the part that classifies this book as a lesbian book. I had no idea, I see that there were plenty of references to two Slave Masters to being gay and one situation where a Mistress to being gay but I'd hardly say that this was a good read.
I enjoyed the book because too often in our oral history lessons we speak of how the Master's would use and abuse the Slave girls/women but hardly ever hear of the Mistress and Slave Men or the Master's and the Slave MEN... that to me, is real life.
Yes the author jumped around a lot and if you were not paying attention you would get lost and I agree with L. Romich - the cover of the book makes you think the book is about something totaly different, you'd never guess it was set during slave times considering the woman on the cover is clean and of all things, has on a pair of crispy white panties...
I don't think that the description of the book on the back is accurate either... after starting the book I had to go back and cross reference what was on the back with what I was reading the entire thinking... is this right?
It's a good book, aside from the cover of the book, the description on the back and the indication that this is a lesbian book... it's a winner to me
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