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The Love Slave Mass Market Paperback – August 30, 1997

by Bertrice Small (Author)

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It is no act of love that Regan experiences the night she takes her sister's place in the marriage bed, a counterfeit bride to sate the lust of her twin's new husband. Come morning, her sister, carrying another man's child, resumes her place and Regan is spirited away to a nunnery.

But a more exotic fate awaits the fiery Celtic beauty: Regan is sold to a slave trader. It will be her destiny to come under the tutelage of Karim al Malina, master of the erotic arts, who will mold Regan -- now renamed Zaynab, the beautiful one -- into a Love Slave fit for a Moorish king, though the pair break the first rule of teacher and pupil . . . they fall in love.

But Zaynab is not Karim's to keep. She is given to the Caliph of Cordoba, who vows to love her . . . and pleasure her as no younger man can. Yet Regan still longs for her one true love, Karim al Malina, and vows that, somehow, their fates must be reunited . . . .

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It is no act of love that Regan experiences the night she takes her sister's place in the marriage bed, a counterfeit bride to sate the lust of her twin's new husband. Come morning, her sister, carrying another man's child, resumes her place and Regan is spirited away to a nunnery.
But a more exotic fate awaits the fiery Celtic beauty: Regan is sold to a slave trader. It will be her destiny to come under the tutelage of Karim al Malina, master of the erotic arts, who will mold Regan -- now renamed Zaynab, the beautiful one -- into a Love Slave fit for a Moorish king, though the pair break the first rule of teacher and pupil . . . they fall in love.
But Zaynab is not Karim's to keep. She is given to the Caliph of Cordoba, who vows to love her . . . and pleasure her as no younger man can. Yet Regan still longs for her one true love, Karim al Malina, and vows that, somehow, their fates must be reunited . . . .

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About the Author

Bertrice Small was the New York Times bestselling author of more than fifty novels. Among her numerous awards, she was the recipient of the RWA Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award. She lived on the North Fork of the eastern end of Long Island, New York, until her death in 2015.

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Mass Market Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: Ivy Books (August 30, 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0449002136
ISBN-13: 978-0449002131
Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 1.1 x 6.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 89 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,102,603 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1344 in Books > Romance > Historical > Ancient World
- #3974 in Books > Romance > Historical > Medieval
- #4452 in Books > Romance > Historical > Scottish

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Inexplicable blonde privilege and slaver heroes (spoilers!)

October 7, 2014

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Crazysauce with a side of WTF! But readable, sure.

Still, there is a lot of silliness. Love Slave is always capitalized, as is Pleasure Master. Which amuses me for some reason. Also, so far as I can tell, everyone falls for the heroine on the basis of her blonde good looks; I know that's part of her job description, but it's a bit weird. She's immediately the Sultan's favorite, but doesn't do much more to earn it than being blonde and trained to be fantastic in bed. She's nice, but not really much in the personality department, and I don't feel emotionally invested in her story. Honestly, the parts meant to garner sympathy (her childhood, for instance) just seem forced and over-the-top with her evil mother. There's a lot of historical detail (and it's mostly correct, yay!), but somehow the people don't feel all that in harmony with their time and place.

The thing that killed all the great historical joy for me, though, was the unfortunate racial implications of the theme (all Sultans love blondes?). It's not horrible, and the book is an older one, but it made me uncomfortable, despite there being some logic to men wanting their sex slaves to look different from what they're used to. That, combined with the heroine's flat personality, was a turnoff.

Also, I really don't think there's such a thing as a secret pleasure school in Samarkand. And I don't care how you spin it, but one of the heroes makes his living by training sex slaves, and I don't really see him ever realizing that his profession is basically about using violence and manipulation to program women to be sexual chattel. I find that creepy, though of course such men existed, and he does feel bad when one of his trainees kills herself rather than be transferred to another owner. Yes, he eventually does right by Zaynab, but does he really get that what he did to all the women he trained was dehumanizing to them? That he's essentially unconcerned with the fact that the women he trains don't come to him voluntarily asking to be trained? He wants to be a life partner to a trafficked woman, but never seems to really understand his own role in her victimization, and he never attempts to help her pursue other options or apologizes for having treated her like a trained animal.

Anyway, it's an older book and you expect some issues with agency and rape in such titles. I can look beyond it sometimes as a product of its time, but flat personalities and unnatural decision making processes made it dull. I think the author relied on all the historical detail (again, great detail!) to carry the book.

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Frustrating, emotional and sensual!

February 16, 2005

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The frustrating part for me was that Zaynab appeared to truly fall in love with Karim the Passion Master. After knowing no love at all in the first 15 years of her life Karim comes into her world and sweeps her away with such a depth of passion that it sizzles right off the page. I realize that they both had their honor and had to do what was expected of them. She had to leave Karim for the Caliph - HOWEVER it seemed that Zaynab dealt with this much better and easier than Karim did. She too easily accepted the love and world of the Caliph and this was frustrating. It seemed Karim was much less adapting to a world without his Zaynab. The emotional story of Zaynab and Karim was beautiful and so very sensual - I loved them together! What was even more upsetting for me was when the Caliph gave her to his assistant (can't remember his name) and Zaynab felt the need to be a true love slave to him - he was even a virgin so she had lots to teach him. Since she supposedly still loved Karim this was a little hard for me to understand. I guess she took her role as she was trained for very seriously. Yes, I did believe that she truly loved Karim and finally when she looses her child and totally breaks down and realizes she has nothing she appears to finally be a real person and not just this love machine. The part with Karim and the devastation of his entire family was really really sad. There was something truly wonderful about his family and to realize this wonderful sensuous man lost so very much really upset me. The reuniting of Karim and Zaynab was wonderful but it should have gone on for much longer - we could have used one more terrific LOVE scene between this couple at the end when they are finally a true couple at last!

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lush historical titillation marred by violent content

March 6, 2002

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I'd read Bertrice Small's great Skye O'Malley series when I was in graduate school, and seeking an escape from the news and nonfiction, I decided to read something light -- and what better well in which to dip my ladle than Ms. Small's, who I remembered as being a good storyteller and a fine writer with an interest in historical accuracy.
I thoroughly enjoyed the first part of the book. It met all expectations, and I pampered myself by taking bits of time to read Regan MacDuff's adventures. She is an intelligent and resourceful young woman, and I liked her and her friend Oma. The story was not a disappointment, making me laugh with its outrageousness even as I quickly turned the pages. Regan is the youngest of the twin daughters of newly widowed Sorcha MacDuff in AD 929 Scotland. Sorcha is driven by a thirst for revenge that will change her daughters' lives. Favored Gruoch will become the lady of their ancestral lands as well as the major lands adjoining, but her legacy comes at the price of Regan's virginity, as Regan takes her twin's place on her bridal night to prevent the groom from knowing Gruoch is not a maiden. Soon, with an heir coming, Regan is in the way and to prevent her from ever giving birth to a potential rival heir, she is sent to a distant convent to spend the rest of her life. Within hours of her arrival, however, she is raped and sent off to a slaver with other girls victimized by the sadistic Mother Eubh, including her future companion Oma. The man who buys her finds her so exquisite that he is going to have her trained by a legendary Passion Master and then presented as the centerpiece of a parade of priceless gifts presented to a powerful and influential caliph. And that's just the first 50 pages (of 400)!
From there, things were not as strong. There were a lot of exciting sex scenes, but the romance of Zaynab and Karim was two dimensional. You could see why they admired each other, but other relationships were more complex and interesting than this one. But what I was most disturbed by was the violence, and to me it's amazing that even those who are critical of the author's efforts here have not even mentioned it, whereas I would go so far as to say it ruined this book for me. I can enjoy brutes and naughtiness right along with the next person when it comes to reading a romance, but there is some disturbing violence here, a suicide, graphic torture and the death of children. I need escape from my escape literature! C'mon, Bertrice, lighten up!
I also would have liked to have some closure on the Gruoch storyline.

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