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Owning Arabella [Kindle Edition]

Shirl Anders
3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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Erotic romance regency, m/f. Against her will, Arabella is gambled by her stepfather in a card game and won by the fiercely scarred Lord Darth Peregrine. A man who believes that no woman could desire him.
Lord Peregrine holds Arabella captive to his sexual desires. He is the lord and master and she is naked to his control. In the end Lord Peregrine saves Arabella's young brother ... and he saves himself. HEA

Owning Arabella is previously published in Allure Gold Two Erotic Novels

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Punishment! Darth had said punishment! Arabella squealed again as Darth hauled her to one of the bedposts. There he lifted her wrists high over her head as she wiggled and fought his hold. But he took the thinnest belt and wrapped both of her wrists, pulling them higher to bind the belt around the bedpost. Bringing even her heels off the ground. She was hung helplessly naked and heaving from the exertion of trying to escape him.
“God, you are beautiful,” he uttered, swiping a broad hand across his scarred mouth as if he had not meant to say it.
He was standing to the side of her with one of his hands hung down at his side and the wide leather strap dangling to the floor. Arabella clenched her eyes and tensed in terrified anticipation of the lash she knew was coming. Flinching when Darth moved, only no sudden pain came across her back. Instead, she heard the soft whoosh of the feather mattress. Then she dared to open her eyes to see Darth stretched out like a great feline cat crossways on the corner of the bed. His penetrating gray eyes were gazing up at her. She had never felt more exposed in her life, stripped naked, and helpless before a man.
“I hate you!” she cried, not knowing what else to say or to do as Darth lay there, and then he smiled slowly. Arabella’s heart caught unreasonably, for she would never think this brute, this bully, who was so utterly male, could be attractive in his own way.

Product Details

  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 238 KB
  • Publisher: Allure Books (January 31, 2010)
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B0036OSBZ8
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Lending: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #28,448 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars :o), December 11, 2010
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This was actually a good book. Sometimes i don't like taking a chance on a book with no reviews from an author I don't know. The story draws you in immediately from the beginning and flowed right through no extra unnecessary words or chapters sometimes authors do that to full a book example I detest when the main characters don't meet until the seventh chapter things like that . Arabella and Darth's chemistry was good. Arabella was won in a game of cards by her stepfather and given to Darth, Darth is a good guy even though he has his own demons to fight. This is a quick read and has some erotic sex not hardcore but still good. So if you like the captive, do what I say even though I have feelings for you with a touch of erotic sex then this is for you.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Good Storyline Ruined by Terrible Writing, Editing, January 11, 2011
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The storyline was okay, the characters sympathetic (although the names are stupid), the sex scenes well-done.

However, the writing was inexpert and the editing was completely absent. The whole thing reads like a first draft. Anders writes entirely too much in the passive voice so that things happen, but by hands or chins or thoughts and not by people. Really, it's embarrassing that this text has been published!

Here's some examples of what I'm talking about. Twice the word "sordid" was written as "sorted." At one point, Arabella "shuttered" when she should have "shuddered." Victor waves a "treacherous knife" and Darth takes a "languished puff" off a cigar. Cliches are attempted repeatedly and yet repeatedly gotten wrong. It's almost as if the writer's native language is not English and she tries to compensate by depending too heavily on a thesaurus.

When I pick up a romance novel, I want to be transported away--to enter a dream. The terrible quality of the writing and editing here jerked me out of the dream repeatedly. What's the point of a book so bad you just laugh at it, the author, and the publisher? And based on the blurbs in the back advertising other books by Anders or the publisher, the quality of this book is no worse than any of the others! Therefore, I cannot recommend this book, the author, Shirl Anders, or the publisher, Allure Books.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Story!, February 12, 2011
This review is from: Owning Arabella (Kindle Edition)
I ended up really enjoying this book and have read it four times since! I agree the editing could have been better and I would have personally liked it to be longer. However the story itself is well written. The sex scenes are tasteful and don't go too overboard. Provides just enough of the bondage/captive type scenario to enthrall but not enough to insult. If you've ever read Pride and Prejudice or Jane Eyre and wished things would get a little more heated then you'll love this book!
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