Wanton [Paperback]

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Avon Books; Regular Print/Single Titl edition (1990)
• ASIN: B003RG3KLA
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 4.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 1.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,776,355 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Worst Romance I ever read, April 3, 2000

By 

S Flayer - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Wanton (Mass Market Paperback)

This is absolutely the worst romance novel I have ever read. While reading I felt as if I had somehow gotten hold of a first draft, one that had NEVER seen an editor! The relationships in this book are bizarre, things are never fully explained (who is Jesse? was Trista ever really married to this Amerson guy officially? If so, why wouldn't he help her? What happens to Trista's inheritance? What is the deal with this swamp woman?) and you have no opportunity to care at all about the characters. Also, the ITALICS! At least 20 italicized words on every page! The heroine is tortured throughout the book, repeatedly raped, abused and degraded, and no one is made to answer for the crimes. The "love interest" Blaze, is more of a "lust interest" as every time the two main characters are together all they do is have brutal, graphic sex, never sharing a meaningful conversation, and yet they are "in love" at the end of the book. Most disturbing is that when the "hero" Blaze finds out about the atrocities committed against Trista, he does nothing, and rapes her again. This is a sick and disturbing book. I don't know that I will ever read Rosemary Rogers again, though I have enjoyed her books in the past. This one goes right to the second hand book store. PS: if Trista attempts to hit Blaze, but he "brutally captures her wrists in his hands" ONE time , this same scene happens 20 times! God, what an awful book! Also, the plot description above is totally wrong. Trista never joins a wagon train, she moves to Paris! Blaze isn't a cowboy, he is a Civil War correspondent!

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Degrading! Disgusting! Deplorable! Dark!, February 6, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: The Wanton (Mass Market Paperback)

If this were the first Rosemary Rogers book I had ever read,
I would never read another one. This morbid book is terribly degrading to women,
and the incidents that occur in it are beyond digusting! I am normally a fast
reader, but this relatively small book took me four days to
complete. It was not detailed enough to hold my interest,and the characters never did come to life for me. I often found myself having to read and re-read whole paragraphs just to try to understand their meaning. Sometimes I found myself thinking about other things while I was reading it - like "Did the trash get taken out tonight?" I nearly drove my family and friends insane with my complaining about whether or not I would EVER be able to finish it. The whole book was nothing but a series of trials and tribulations. The ONLY reason I was determined
to finish it was to see if this poor heroine survived the atrocities
done to her. Even the ending was unsatisfactory - a relatively "happy" ending, but too vague and far to abrupt. It might have been better if some of the devastating tortures the heroine experienced had gradually been dealt with. I got the impression that Ms. Rogers just got too depressed with writing the content of the book and decided just to end it. The first Rosemary Rogers book I ever read was
Sweet Savage Love - that book I have kept and enjoyed re-reading
for years. Wanton hit the trash can as soon as I finished
reading it. Literally! It is definitely NOT a romance. This books depicts the heroine's life as "a living Hell." The only excuse I can see
for the publisher putting this book on the market is because of the draw of an
established author's name. That, or Ms. Rogers just didn't have anything better
in the works to submit in time for her deadline. If there were a rating on here LESS than 1, I would have used it.
I can not, in good concience, recommend this book to anyone; unless, of course, they thrive
on the darker, seamier, side of life.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your time!!!, August 2, 2004

By 

Sabrina R. - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Wanton (Mass Market Paperback)

Read the editorial reviews for the book description...

I am just about the most politically incorrect person I know... I tell you I love a good man-handling read. {The kind of stuff that would outrage the politically correct women of today. All of them.} I'm talking about the kind of reads to where the hero will taking nothing less than a yes for an answer from his intended lady love. And then goes about getting that yes by any and all means necessary through out the novel.

With that said, I tensely disliked this novel... This was by far the worst novel I have ever read and actually completed. Rogers heaped way too much abuse on the female main character. She goes through so much {which includes beatings and being raped at the hands of evil stepbrother and of course her own husband. Oh did I mention the gang rape?!}

I was actually hoping for a happy ending for her, which Rogers refused to give. This book ended so badly that I tossed the book in the trash. I would have given it away but I didn't want anyone to know that I had read something that bad.

I wrote this review not to tell you about the book but to tell you don't waste your time...