Madame Bliss: The Erotic Adventures of a Lady [Paperback]

Charlotte Lovejoy (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 3, 2009

An irresistible debut that invites readers into a world rife with temptation.

A resourceful and most amorous heroine continues in the great ribald tradition of those legendary eighteenth century characters, Tom Jones and Fanny Hill?

Readers will delight in the erotic adventure of Miss Marianna Wren, a deliciously wanton eighteenth-century beauty determined to claim exuberant pleasure and delight from every waking moment, and from every opportunity that tumbles her way. After being blissfully ?ruined? as a maidservant on her master?s dining table, the luscious Marianna determines to control her own fate, setting off for King George?s London and all its bawdy temptations.

Before long, Marianna?s life is filled with delectable seductions, extravagant ravishments, and outrageous conquests of every flavor and fashion. Yet even as lords and princes shower her with jewels, she longs for the greatest pleasure of all?a chance at true love?and the daring to risk everything to find it.

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About the Author

Charlotte Lovejoy is a Washington, DC, native who has authored 32 historical novels and novellas. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Paperback: 326 pages
• Publisher: NAL Trade; Original edition (March 3, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 045122597X
• ISBN-13: 978-0451225979
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #881,361 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A weak emulation of John Cleland's "Memoirs of a woman of pleasure.", August 14, 2009

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This review is from: Madame Bliss: The Erotic Adventures of a Lady (Paperback)

The premise for this book is rather similar to John Cleland's classic "Memoirs of a woman of pleasure." But all promises aside, this book falls just a little flat.

In the product description and elsewhere, this book is heralded as being equivalent to Cleland's title. The scenes are, as expected, racey and sexy and to complete the saga "Madam Bliss" also has her own tragic lover, lost to her, whom she will regain, with him having metamorphsized into a marvellously rich man, when all it said and done.

I have to admit though that the book is a good read, with a decent plot and lots of sex as you would expect from a title like this, but I cannot help feeling that the plot development and the unexpected twists in many ways relegates the book to an almost corny conclusion that would have people who frequently read this genre either roll their eyes a little if not yawn. All in all, Cleland's title provides the model for this book yet in many ways, this book is not executed to the same standard. So, though a good read, it is not one of the best. Still enjoyable; but not essential.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars amorous adventures of a woman of pleasure, March 8, 2009

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This review is from: Madame Bliss: The Erotic Adventures of a Lady (Paperback)

In the eighteenth century waif Marianna Wren is taken into an aristocratic home where she became a servant. However, as she blossomed into a beautiful woman, she is accused of unbecoming behavior when her owner took her virginity and consequently fired her. Marianna tries to hitch a ride and is picked up by Calliope. They hit it off and the more experienced woman tutors her new friend in the vast delights of a wide variety of sex with male and female partners

Marianna loves her new freedom and changes her name to Madame Bliss. She enjoys seduction and being seduced, but deep down in her heart, Bliss knows Marianna is still that stray trying to belong to someone; she wants to love and be loved by her own personal Eros.

As Signet states, MADAME BLISS will remind readers of Fanny Hill and Tom Jones. This is the amorous adventures of a woman of pleasure in a delightfully lewd coming of age historical. Marianna is like a wren until her mentor teaches her the love and joy of blissful bisexual bawdy encounters of all kind. Fans will enjoy Madame Bliss' erotic escapades.

Harriet Klausner

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars so so ...., September 29, 2010

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This review is from: Madame Bliss: The Erotic Adventures of a Lady (Kindle Edition)

Very sensual book, but let's just say that it didn't keep me up all night reading it.