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Love Play

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Poor Sara! Golden haired and beautiful, sensitive and romantic, she is still forever overshadowed by the other women in her family. Mama Mona is the most glamorous movie star in Hollywood. Half sister Delight is the most wickedly adventurous porn star in the business. Sara is in the middle, wondering -- will any man ever find me desirable?

Enter Marco DeCavlieri, the most intense, passionate, possessive, and GORGEOUS hunk in all of Italy. Worth hundreds of millions, powerful and ruthless, Marco is still brutally protective of his family honor. When he hears that his silly younger brother Carlo has taken up with gold-digger Delight, he decides to take matters into his own hands!

What happens next is just too sexy to be described. It's sort of like mistaken identity, with a bit of kidnaping, only Sara soon finds she doesn't want to escape! Her beauty and goodness inflame the dark duke, so that soon he finds himself giving in to her instead of the other way around. And then -- oh, but I can't go on. Read it for yourself!

Magnificent, epic length, and sexy, this tale of passion between a proper English society girl and an uninhibited Italian Duke is truly the best of both worlds. It has the elegance, luxury and mystery of a great historical -- Marco is really more of a 16th century Corsair than a modern jet setter, even if he does have his own helicopter, sports car and mansion. On the other hand, golden-haired Sara is really more of an innocent, chaste, Jane Austen heroine, even if she is the daugher of a famous -- and sexually adventurous -- movie star.

Even the minor characters are fascinating, like Carlo, the Brooklyn born stepbrother Marco protects, and Delight, the party girl with a heart of gold, and even Serafina, the stern old housekeeper who functions as a mother figure for Sara. Great story, great romance, great settings and characters!

This was the first romance novel that I have read and it still is in my keepers shelf. This tale of passion starts with Sara, who is impersonating her actress sister Delight. To give Delight time to run away and get hitched to her paramour, Carlo,Sara needs to trick Marco (Carlo's brother) that Delight is really in town. After their meeting,Marc "kidnapps" Sara via his private plane and takes her to his mansian. Yeah, being the Duca di Cavalieri has certain advantages ;). The dialogue between Sara and Marco is amusing to say the least. And the pool scene is diabolic! No more said, you have to read it to get the rest of the story and the details. All in all, the sexual tension between them startS with A SPARK AND TURNS INTO AN ALL OUT BONFIRE!! Oh my, enjoy

I really enjoyed reading this book and I can't help but be a little critical but I wish Rosemary would put a little more sex in her scenes. If you've read "The Insiders" now that was sexy and erotic, it really turned you on at times, but then again there were some scenes that were uncalled for. "The Insiders" was the beginning of my book collection. I also loved "Crowd Pleasers." Anyway, "Love Play" was fun to read. There was a lot of spitting drama between the two main characters which I enjoy. I thought Rosemary could have done a better job with the ending....it was just too easy to figure out that the characters would have been happily in love with each other. I mean she just went into "boy, I think I love you" and it was over. I thought if the two characters were going to keep bickering, their should have been a lot more passionate sex between the two and not in the last quarter of the book. I was getting tired of waiting till something sexual would happen. I've read a lot of Rosemary's novels and think this book will be my last. I've been reading a lot of Kat Martin books lately and I now have a new collection of her books. She has a lot of steamy loving, clean of course, sexy scenes that really turn you on and make you feel good and a very well written stories. You should check her out. Sorry fan readers. I guess I'm just a little more disappointed with Rosemary's books. Anyway, I really think this book is still worth reading. I just felt I had to speak my peace.

For such a twisted "love" triangle I throughly enjoyed Mrs. Rogers work, and I really didn't want this novel to end. It is a love story on a major detour, and is something I certainly wouldn't have thought of, but I am glad Mrs. Rogers did. As surprising as the plot was, I was even more surprised by the ending, and would really love to hear more about how all turned out in the end. I truly wish that more of the story was still left to read.

This is my least favorite Rosemary Rogers book. I have read about 5 of them with Sweet Savage Love being my favorite. There wasn't enough going on in this book to keep you interested. It was over wrought and I didn't love the characters.

I read this when i was about 18 and ten years later i married a foreign man named Marcos from Chile. I just reread the book and the resemblance between my husband and Marco in the book is just too unbelieveable. i wonder if after reading this book I was subconciously looking for this man. I think many American women are sick of the girly men society has turned the very masculine nature of men. I think foreign raised men are less prone to the feminization of the masculine gender that occurs here in this country. Anyway warts and all I think the Marco character personifies what alot of women really want in a man a real man, not too willing to share emotion but more comfortable with sexuality. I never saw the scenes as rape because sara truly desires this man although he is enraging at the same time as arousing, a great combo I think. I think Rosemary Rogers must understand very well the true nature of masculinity because for me she captures it in her male characters for sure.

Don' pick up this book if you are pressed with things to do! Once you start, you can't stop. This book will take you through every emotion known to man! It will make you laugh, cry, get mad, and aroused! You will be lost in the experience! This is a must read!!! It is a romance novel, but unlike any you have ever read before!!! I read it in 1982 and the feeling is still with me!!!!! Enjoy!!!

AS EVERYONE SAY, NEVER READ THIS BOOK WHEN YOU ARE BURDENED WITH LOTS OF WORK. I READ IT JUST FEW DAYS BACK. AND I STILL WORRY THE FACT THAT THE NOVEL IS OVER. THIS NOVEL WANTS YOU TO YEARN FOR LOVE. IT DEVELOPS OUR MIND TO THINK WHETHER THIS WOULD CONTAIN MORE PAGES. IT IS MORE ROMANTIC FOR A TEENAGER. I COULD SAY, BUT IT IS CERTAINLY NOT A DISCREDIT. READ THIS. THEN YOU WILL LOVE READING BOOKS!

I enjoyed this book thoroughly. Just thought it ended too abruptly, maybe because I didn't want it to end...