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The love slave / Bertrice Small.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780345385987 :
- ISBN: 0345385985 :
- Physical Description: 451 p. : map ; 21 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, 1995.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 451). |
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| Subject: | Muslims > Spain > Fiction. Scotland > History > To 1057 > Fiction. Spain > History > 711-1516 > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. Love stories. |
| Topic Heading: | Historical fiction. AF. Love stories. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Elkford Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elkford Public Library | FC SMA (Text) | 35170000309955 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 1995 January
~ Skillful women's erotica. A tenth-century sex toy finds love with the prince who turned her out, but graphic sex with a 15-year- old heroine may not be everyone's cup of aphrodisiac. Small (Love, Remember Me, p. 172), whose specialty is ``sensual'' romance near the first millennium, stages this one in the Moorish courts of Spain and North Africa. The sex is explicit, though genitals have codewords. Women have a ``little jewel''; men have a ``love pillar''; and only villains use the F-word. The Love Slave is Regan MacDuff, whose family sends her to a Scottish convent, where the corrupt abbess sells her to a slaver who rapes her to make sure she's no longer a virgin. Because of Regan's flawless beauty, she's sold to a Moor who intends to present her as payback to his caliph. In order to make Regan the perfect gift, a Love Slave, he gives her over to handsome ``passion master'' Karim al-Malina, whose training in the erotic arts includes a bag of sex toys and a marble replica of the caliph's genitals (with which to practice anal sex twice a week). Regan learns not only the erotic arts, but also several languages, three musical instruments, history, mathematics, and calligraphy (though her exploits with a bamboo pen are not described here). But Karim and Regan disobey the first rule of passion training and fall in love. Because they are honorable, Regan, whose name is changed to Zaynab, goes to the caliph's harem, and Karim takes a wife. Zaynab is eventually returned to Karim, ready to settle down to perfumed baths with her husband. After scenes of forced sex, explicit sex through all orifices, sex with vaginally introduced metal balls, handcuffs, silken cords, and multiple partners, there is also a bibliography for those who would like to read more about Moorish life. Small is good at soft-core with historically correct accessories. But a world where only the physically perfect get to do it is a bit depressing. (Doubleday Book Club selection) Copyright 1999 Kirkus Reviews
