In the high noon of Victorian empire, Lady Jenny Langham accompanies her soldier uncle to the city of Khartoum on the Nile. The inhabitants of that city are soon besieged by an army of natives, and Jenny and her maid fall into the hands of the victorious Mahdi. Bedslaves of the warriors and gentle lovers of each other, the women are enveloped by punishment and pleasure in the long hot months of erotic captivity.
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42 of 44 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An erotic marvel and a historical wonder ....,
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This review is from: The Odalisque (Blue Moon Books) (Mass Market Paperback)
This is the kind of Richard Manton book that first grabs your mind as it takes you back in history, then grabs your throat as the story develops and finally, grabs your ... (oh well anyway)... as you the reader are trapped into being a witness and willing accomplice to seduction and total submission of our heroine inot sins of the flesh. In part one, Beauty and the Beast, we find our high strung heroine, Jenny Langham, a very beautifull young 22 year old English girl in the early 1900's, forcing herself to accompany her uncle, and officer in the British Forces, to Khartoum, Sudan, to escape the horror of almost being raped by her then fiancee. The author does allow us the momentary relief to admire Leslie and dislike the cad of a fiancee even though we know that she is a brazen flirt...... Part two, Khatoum, finds our heroine with a full complement of British and European ex-patriot society as they must deal with the threat of attack by a nomad moslem leader calling himself the 'Mahdi'. The Brits having lost their stomach for empire maintenance sent a General Gordon to make peace with the Mahdi and try to make a gracefull exit from the African country. Without delving into the great historical period fiction with many real world political leaders of the time being written in, we find Leslie continuing her flirtations and teasings of the men around her. As a reader our frustration begin to rise in a secret hope that Leslie must soon receive her just deserts ... at least .... Part three, The Woman and Her Master, Khartoum falls so quickly that all of the men woman and children of the ex-patriate society fall into the hands of the Mahdi. In the flash of an eye we now find Jennys' strong headed willfullness and incessant teasing dealt with by her new masters. The induction of our young heroine into the harem of the new leaders is written with such skill and mastery that it's hard to believe we are only reading fiction. The eroticism of Jennys' conversion to slavery is the best that I have ever read and sizzles .... so much so I actually don't really wonder any more about the source of Richard Mantons' background experience and material .... In the afterword, The Horrors of the Harem, the author treats us with a bit of self serving advertisement of some of the other slave/harmen books he has written, but, more importantly place before the reader some historical truths about the topic of this book that will make your hair stand on end, unless, perhaps, the reader has travelled through some of the countries in the dark continent. Absolutely stupendous and this book is a must have for your erotic library ......
32 of 35 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
what is all the rage about this book???,
By "andi_hawke" (DeRidder, Louisiana United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Odalisque (Blue Moon Books) (Mass Market Paperback)
I ordered this book because of the stellar reviews here on amazon. I was totally disappointed. The [adult scenes] was done with no feeling whatsoever, it was told very clinically, with no description. What about the tastes, feels, smells, sounds? There is more to [adult scenes] than he put this there and she submitted. Blah!The entire first half of the book is boring history/war type stuff. The maid that is described as her having a thing with is mentioned in one sentence and then never again and not once does she have a "thing" with her! Perhaps it is a good account of harem life. But that is all it is. An account. It is not descriptive, enticing, or even entertaining. It is written like something from a textbook. Yawn! If you want to know how it feels, do not bother with this book... im not even sure why I gave this two stars.
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Odalisque,
By Frances LaGatta (United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Odalisque (Blue Moon Books) (Mass Market Paperback)
A collector of books on harem life, I found Manton's afterword such a delightful bonus on fact versus fantasy. The wildest fiction may be tame compared to the history of real-life harem spectaculars, but 'The Odalisque' really delivers with five alarm erotic jalapino sprinkled with just enough authentic salt. How I'd love to have this author write one for us!Wicked Velvet Web Publisher Frances LaGatta ....
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