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VELVET CHAINS

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I really enjoyed this book, and could not put it down. Constance O'Banyon is a great story teller, and this book was a real page turner.
The characters where very likable and had a lot of depth, which keeps you hanging on for more.
The story is about Lady Season Chatsworth who is kidnapped by "The Raven" a notorious pirate. The Raven wants to use Season as Ransom to free a fellow American patriot, but as time passes and deals fall through he does not seem to want to hand her back over to the British. Lot's of steamy love scenes.

When I read this book, I found that the author left a little bit of something to be desired...a plot, perhaps?
I read alot of romance novels, but this one I found to be a bit different from the kind that I usually enjoy. While the story was alright, it could have been vastly expanded on. This historical romance novel is based on a female that gets abducted by pirates and 'taken' by their captain. Taken over and over and over again. That's right folks, this book is basically all about sex. The masked captain of the pirate ship beds the helpless female many, many times over without much of anything for dialog, and she falls helplessly in love with him. How romantic.
This book was written alright, but the plot left much to be desire...WITHOUT desire.

Constance O'Banyon must be the best kept secret in the Romance Novel industry. I don't see to many review on her or much said, but she must be the best author I have ever read. I have read all of her novels and everyone of them have been wonderful. She has a great way of bringing you into the moment. She discribes the places she writes about with such clarity and all of the characters are very interesting. In all of her books she gets you from the very fist page.

If you want a can't put it down pirate story this is it. This is a page turner.