Customer Reviews

Virgin For Sale (Harlequin Presents)

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Virgin for Sale is a captivating blend of steamy sensuality, passionate romance and intense emotions. Susan Stephens is a master storyteller who takes her readers on an emotional journey with her characters who are strong yet flawed human beings. Readers will relate and sympathize with Lisa, a young woman who has had a tough life and who still bears the scars from her past whereas they will adore Constantine, who is a strong Alpha hero who has his own demons from his past to face.

If you are looking for a romance where the characters are richly drawn, the sexual tension electrifying, the sex steamy and the romance heart stopping, then Virgin for Sale is the book for you!

Susan Stephens pushes the boundaries with her new Harlequin Presents, Uncut. This is a fantastic read about erotic - not pornographic sex, there's a massive difference. A great heroine with a troubled background who - joy of joys, confounds the usual perceived wisdoms about childhood trauma ruining your life - she overcomes it and enjoys adult sex in the context of, yes, romantic love. Well done author. Classy writing and a good story. Uncut tells us exactly what to expect - that's why we love it. keep pushing the boat out girl.

From reading these scandalized reviews of the spanking scene in this book, I was curious and had to read this one, even though I've never read this particular author. I had to smile as I read what some of these reviewers consider "bondage" and "soft porn."
This was so playful it couldn't be considered either of those, although I'm not into the S&M scene. Tame, very tame. No whips, no belts: just his hand and playful language about her being "a naughty girl." Whoopie! It was kinda cute, actually.
I also find it odd that some reviewers believe the two protagonists could not possibly indulge in this kind of behavior since they had both been abused as children. The woman saw or heard about "free love" in a commune, the hero was supposedly whipped as a child. Neither situation should be swept under the carpet, yet as adults this might possibly be a way those who were helpless as children could take control. That's what I've heard such bedroom games are about anyway. Since Lisa was this hard-boiled business owner, her playing the submissive to Tino's dominant would allow her to give up control to a strong man that she trusts.
I don't see anything abusive or sick in that. In fact, if you want to go into the psychological ramifications, I believe such games might even be healthy and empowering for a couple with their history.
Not a great book, but not bad. And certainly not a violation of the pristine reputation of the Harlequin Presents line.

I thought it was a good book come on ppl your gonna make one kinky sex scene make you not enjoy the book they only did it once, and it was a little spanking that they both concent to and even if everyone is not into it it still leaves that its a good book...
Don't degrade the book because of that scene state that you enjoy it if you did but make it known that you didn't like that scene about the book...


its like i always say a bad reivew can really downplay a good book and a good review can really up play a bad book, because of some of the bad reviews for this book I almost didn't read it but i'm glad i change my mind



i'm glad i bought it because if i had listen to most of the reveiws and not bought it i would have missed out on a good book...

I just had to write a review because I thought a lot of these reviewers overreacted to some very MILD spanking in ONE scene. I agree with one of the reviewers that what happened in the book can be therapeutic for people with their backgrounds (my sister's a psychologist). Overall, it is a good book about two scarred people learning how to trust.

The UnCut Series is advertised as a more passionate read than the regular Harlequin Presents. If you are not into sex scenes in your books then please just stick to the regular series.

Really powerful story...sorry that some people were shocked by the spanking scene, but it was pretty tame to me. Maybe those people shouldn't read the Uncut series anymore...lol.

From this Author, I keep reading the same story over and other again. It's like she's phoning it in. The first story I read of her's was wonderful, so I made it a purpose to go and get titles written by her. Since I am a hopeless romantic, I shall probably read more of her work. Why do they use phrases like "had been" when they could just say "was?"

One reviewer went as far as to say that the spanking is "healthy" in a relationship.

Excuse me? Pain is "healthy" for two people who had a horrific past? Um, no.

This was a terrible story with an awfully sadistic point of view. Some people really don't understand how bad bringing that particular thing into play in the bed. For passionate- yet tender-hearted readers, which is what we all are since we're reading Harlequin and not authors like Rachel Kramer Bussel, it's not fun. It's not sexy. It's not "healthy."

The spanking ruined an entire book. It's extremely unrealistic for people who had traumatic pasts to like this. And I hate that there are some authors who really don't understand that. I've read many books where this has happened, and I wonder, why do these writers think that someone who was abused, or came from a tragic and hurtful past, would actually like a spanking? That's what caused the pain and trauma in the first place!

Skip this book. It's just ridiculous, and absolutely unreal.

This book is ideal for everyone who loves a bit of spanking in their sex lives, despite having had the most traumatic lives. The heroine has had a rotten life - nearly gangraped as a teenager living in a commune, ignored by her father, and now forced to sell her company to protect its workers, yet she just loves the idea of being punished by the control-freak hero for being a naughty girl, and submitting to everything the hero does to her. He, despite still having nightmares from having been beaten as a child in an orphanage, still really enjoys putting the heroine over his knee and spanking her, both for sex and not sex. [...]

I am all for very erotic and steamy love scenes and that is why I chose "uncut" thinking it would be a little more graphic than the usual Harlequin. However, I must agree that the SM overtones are just too much, ESPECIALLY given the fact that the female lead (Lisa) barely escaped from being sexually assaulted by multiple men in a commune when she was younger. Is this the kind of woman (a virgin, no less) who would eagerly offer her naked bottom to her soon-to-be lover so he could "punish" her by spanking her because she is a "naughty girl." Yuck! I am no prude, but this was just too much and not believable given the character's background.