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Love's Fiery Jewel

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ive been a avid reader for many years.. but this is the worst book i have EVER READ .THIS MAN?? is sick and should be in a mental ward.. Not only does he rape and drug this CHILD. but he kidnaps and physically/mentally abuses her as well .. this BOOK is SICK !
" LOVE'S FIERY JEWEL" THIS IS NOT LOVE!!!!!.

I have been reading romance books for over 20 years and I have to say that this book is one of the best. Elaine Barbieri has the ability to provide conflict between the two main characters, Amethyst and Damien, resulting in a spellbinding, page turning plot. Damien's character is chauvanistic, but we can forgive him because he is seeping with male vitality. As the characters move from Philidelphia to Jamacia, we experience all the details from climate to clothing and we feel we are there too. If you like historical romance, this book won't disappoint you.

I have been an avid romance reader for about five years now and came across this one in my mom's stash. I have to say it is the worst book I have ever read. I am just about half way through and have decided to not go any further (this has never happened to me before). The story starts with a nine year old girl and early thirties man and he has a fondness for her and her mother in the beginning. Then again when she is 13 and he is mid thirties, they meet once more. Barbieri writes about how beautiful he thinks she is going to be. Finally 3 years later when she is 16 and he is late 30s he goes in for the kill. The man cuts her off from the other man in her life for no other reason than because she "belongs to him." If that wasn't bad enough, he forces this 16 year old child to have sex with him. It's not romantic at all, it's a rather disturbing tale of pedophilia and rape.

I'm stopping at the point in the book where he has now abducted the 16 year old child from her home in order to force her to come live with him as his mistress until he tires of her. The whole story is just sick and I can't go any further. I feel bad after reading what I have. I hope others don't make the same mistake. Rape is not romantic or sexy and neither is pedophilia.

Since childhood, Amethyst Greer's life has consisted of caring for her sickly mother and performing with a theater troupe. But when the troupe leaves America for Jamaica aboard Damien Straith's ship, the Sally, Amethyst's life is forever changed.

As she grows into young womanhood in Jamaica, it falls to Amethyst to provide for her ailing mother. And she finds she must face Damien, whom she has never forgiven for his earlier treatment of her, and ask a favor. One that will prolong her mother's life and leave Amethyst and Damien's lives forever intertwined.

With the loss of her mother, Amethyst is comforted but the wealthy plantation owner's son she intends to marry - until Damien arrives on the island once more and announces that Amethyst will not be marrying William because she belongs to him.

With Amethyst aboard ship as his mistress, Damien sets sail for America and the life waiting for him there. But Amethyst's heart still aches for Jamaica and William. Can Damien and Amethyst put aside pride, anger, and past hurt to forge a harmonious union or will Amethyst, a soiled woman, be cast out penniless from the man who ruined her?

"Love's Fiery Jewel" was a chore rather than a pleasure to read. The characters in this novel are motivated by anger, arrogance, and spite and their relationship falters in this quagmire of negativity. Damien and Amethyst cannot convince one another of their love - and they don't convince the reader, either. Pass on this one!