The Lady's Tutor (Brava Historical Romance) (Paperback)

by Robin Schone (Author)
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Editorial Reviews

Review
"THE LADY'S TUTOR IS A MARVELOUS EROTIC ROMANCE THAT TAKES THE READERS ON A SWEEPING ADVENTURE INTO THE VERY HEART OF SENSUALITY AND THE NATURE OF PASSION".

-- Romantic Times --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Description
An Education In Pleasure - Married young to a man hand-picked by her father, Elizabeth Petre is an ideal Victorian lady. She has borne two sons and endured sixteen years of selfless duty in a passionless marriage. Craving a man's loving touch yet loyal to her wedding vows, Elizabeth is determined to seduce her coldly indifferent husband. She knows of only one man who can teach her the erotic secrets of love. A Lesson In Love - The bastard son of an English countess and an Arab sheik, Ramiel Devington was reared to embrace both Western culture and Eastern pleasure. Scorned by society and challenged by prim Elizabeth's request, he undertakes her instruction in the art of sensual delight. But when the lessons become a temptation neither can resist, Elizabeth is forced to choose between obligation and a bold, forbidden passion... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Kensington (September 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0758203926
• ISBN-13: 978-0758203922
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.7 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (105 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #640,415 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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39 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It gets better with each reading!, May 3, 2005

By	Book Mom (Maryland) - See all my reviews

This was the third time I have read this book, and after reading some of the negative reviews here I decided to finally add my 2 cents. To the comments that this book was just sex with no romance, I have to wonder at those readers' definition of romance. True, the hero and heroine do not go for quiet walks, hold hands over candlelight dinners and make cow eyes at each other. But their deep feelings for one another are quickly obvious from the beginning. Ramiel could have all the sex he wants, with any woman he wants, but Elizabeth moves him in ways no one else ever has, making him want to protect her and her sons and make a commitment to them. She is married and should expect nothing more than a physical fling, but he makes her feel cherished and deserving of her own happiness in life. That is real romance to me, not poetry and flowers.

As to the complaints about homosexuality and/or homophobia, I did not see the gay men in this books represented in any more negative a light than men who cheat on their spouses in other books. And, I have read *much* more adult + minor sex between heterosexuals in other romance novels - why is it only bad for gays, and not for 30+ year-old men taking 16 or 17 year-old girls? That's just downright hypocritical. If you call it pedophilia in this book, then it's pedophilia in all those others, too.

And to the charges of racism, I just don't see it. This book did not paint Arabic people as bad in my mind, just culturally different, and that should be no surprise. And the opinions expresses by the characters should be taken in the context of the time period it is set in. If you expect 19th century characters to have 21st century open minds, you have no business reading a historical novel.

49 of 54 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful can hardly describe this book..................., September 4, 2003

By	girldiver "Enjoy!" (tangled up in blue.) - See all my reviews

I have read several other books and short stories by Ms. Schone and I beleive this is the best so far well atleast my favorite.

A wonderful story of a woman needing love and wanting to give love. Elizabeth believes her husband has taken a mistress so she sets out to win him back by taking lessons in love from a notorious disreputable man (Rameil-the bastard sheik) with a reputation for sexual excess.

These are not physical lessons but turorial book work from the famed 'The perfumed Garden'. She wants her husband back not a lover but as the sexual tension builds and Elisabeth tries to seduce her husband with her new skills and courage her world begins to unravel.

This book has many secrets and at times you can almost guess the secrets but it is the careful weaving of the plot that keeps you reading on. Like lots of Schones books each page reveals more and more, you become hypnotized by the rythme of the conversation and plot, almost riveted. I like Ms Schones books greatly. I am not sure its literature or not I just enjoyed the read. It dawned on me that it remined be of DH Lawrences' LADY CHATTERLY'S LOVER of course no comparison in style or literary greatness just simple similarities in the characters. Lady Chatterly was a very lonely woman looking for love and so is Elisabeth Petre.

Of course a warning for those readers who are offended by sex situations, sex talk, and alternitive life styles: this book is full of erotic situations and should not be read by the easily offended reader.

25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the few well-written erotic love stories, December 10, 1999

By	Elizabeth Isabella (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Lady's Tutor (Zebra Splendor Historical Romances) (Paperback)

I've read other authors who claim to test the boundaries between romance and eroticism (Susan Johnson and Thea Devine) and this is the first one where I have actually been able to believe that the lead protagonists have fallen in love. This is not just a book about two people meeting one another and immediately beginning to engage in meaningless, well, to quote Ally McBeal, "that verb"ing. It is very erotic, yes, because it isn't just about the actual act, but because it is also about anticipation. Besides the very well-written sub-plot, and the incredibly finely-drawn characters, all of which I enjoyed, the other benefit of this book is educational. It's like a far more interesting and engaging version of the Kama Sutra.