Sweet Savage Love [Hardcover]

Rosemary Rogers (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Avon (1990)
• ASIN: B000UTLSP2
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.7 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (63 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,296,276 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining But Not For Everyone, September 11, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Sweet Savage Love (Mass Market Paperback)

Sweet Savage Love is about a naive girl full of romantic fancies who confronts the more lurid realities of life and love. Ginny is caught in more situations than some readers might find easy to swallow. There is also an element of forced seduction involving Ginny and Steve Morgan that readers might find offensive. However, there is a deep, unrecognized attraction between the hero and heroine that is not present in Ginny's other encounters. It is not mature love at first. However, most love takes time to grow. The novel is set in the background of the American Southwest and in Mexico during the rebellion against the Emperor Maximillian. The reader gets a small taste of history and the feel for the injustices and turmoil which resulted in this war. However, this is primarily a romance novel to entertain. Steve and Ginny both go through a lot but this does occur during a tumultous (sp?) time in history. Ginny's morals or lack thereof may sour some readers but she is the product of her upbringing and her experiences. Steve Morgans liasons with women are also not high up on the moral ladder but he is the typical male with double standards of whom there are plenty today. Sweet Savage Love is a novel to be enjoyed and not to be analyzed too seriously. Another good Rosemary Rogers novels which is completely separate from Steve and Ginny is The Wildest Heart. This second novel is not quite a dramatic as Sweet Savage Love. Readers might find it a bit easier to swallow.

49 of 64 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK I WARN YOU!, December 19, 2003

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Allegra "allegra100" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sweet Savage Love (Mass Market Paperback)

Alright, first let me say that I was looking up a good romance book set on a friend's opinion. I came across Rosemary Rogers "Sweet Savage Love." I read the reviews, many said that this book was great, the love scenes were a bit brutal at times, and that Ginny's prostitution was unsuitbale. GIVE ME A BREAK! First off, let me say that Ginny was KIDNAPPED by Steve Morgan against her will. Steve considered her his plaything and nothing more. He continually plays with her heart and her body and feeling no remorse. They get married and i swear, he has sex with atleast 10 other women, while Ginny gets raped about 10 times defending Steve. When Steve finds out about this, he goes on to call her a whore, about 30 times in the whole book, even though she stood up for him! On their wedding night he was off fiddling with a slave girl!Not to mention there are so many questions i have. There are people in the stories brought in, babies, friends, women, and in the next minute they drop of out the scene and you have no idea where they went. Steve IS NOT hero, and this IS NOT a love story. If you want a love story, an actual ROMANCE, then please find other authors.

16 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The Horrible story of Virginia Brandon's life...., November 12, 2009

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Sunny - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sweet Savage Love (Mass Market Paperback)

This is the story of Ginny Brandon. She was living the high life until she went to live with her father in the States. She finds herself in Mexico. Her father is shipping some merchandise across the west with Ginny and her step Mom. Steve Morgan is hired to lead the team across the terrain. Steve starts having feelings (sexual) for Ginny and she also likes him back - at the beginning. That is how this horror story begins.

This is a horrible book. Not for the reasons you might think. I know she gets raped and kidnapped by the hero. I know she gets horribly raped like 20 times (some gang rapes) after they caught her and Steve. I knew from the reviews that this was going to be a harder book to read, well I didn't expect this. The book was so long it was like torture! I have to give the book credit, that is keeps you glued to it but it was a horrible ride. Like getting on a very bad roller coaster - once you start you have to stay on the ride until it was over.

I guess the reason I hated this book was because it wasn't fun at all. Never during the book did I think - entertainment. I have read over 108 books and I have never felt this way - like I was a prisoner to this book. I mean I have read pirate stories where the hero rapes the girl and then she gets raped by others but at least the hero loved her and would get mad if she got raped. Steve, oh Steve - not only does he start Ginny's destruction, but he punishes her for it. I swear - if he called me a whore one more time, he would have woke up with no nuts!!! O my gosh, not only did he not show her any love, he, he, he, (screaming right now looking for the words). I guess I don't have any. He wasn't worth it! I don't know why so many people loved him. He was the worst hero ever. If he loved her, I wouldn't want that kind of love!

Overall - this book put me in a very bad mood for the three days that it took to read it. I read to go into a fantasy land not to get stuck in a nightmare.