Susan M. (susyclemens) reviewed on 11/23/2009 + 158 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 8

For a historical romance, this read more like erotica, but not especially well written erotica at that. Emma Holly (for example) has written historical romances that were much more erotic than this one (Beyond Innocence; Beyond Seduction). Personally I didn't find the author's many references to Mark's 10.50 inches of dripping "purple"-headed love thang, battering Passion's "womb", or the soreness Passion describes afterwards, very enticing. The words the author chose to describe the "equipment" were all -- bleech. (Cods, quim, and the over-frequently-used c-words for his & hers, were very unfortunate choices.)

The setting is London, 1851 but it didn't seem at all like Victorian England. It could have been set in Anytime, Anywhere, for all this debut author brings in any understanding of the time period. The hero, Mark, encounters the heroine, Passion, at the Crystal Palace. They are screwing against a wall, behind a screen, by page 12. Passion (the heroine) is a receptacle for Mark; he's the conflicted tormented one who needs Passion's sympathy & love in order to get over the fact that his mother never loved him. Passion is made an unwakened widow with a dead-in-the-bed prior marriage to make her more mallable to Mark's sexual persuasion.

Unless you like your historical romances with extreme sex scenes stuck together with a fragile plot and cardboard one-dimensional characters, avoid PASSION like the plague.

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