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Review: Fascinated by Bertrice Small, Susan Johnson, Thea Divine and Robin Schone

Nov 27, 2007 18:14

Title: Fascinated Authors: Bertrice Small, Susan Johnson, Thea Devine, Robin Schoen ( Read more... )

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Comments 4

brighid0704 November 28 2007, 03:21:29 UTC

I really like Bertrice Small's writing. Her settings are phenomenal, and the plots are quite good. I haven't heard of any of the other authors though.

bardsong November 28 2007, 14:42:58 UTC

I'm really intrigued by her take on epic fantasy. It sounds like that would make for some interesting reading, provided I could keep from giggling at the prose.

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bardsong November 28 2007, 14:45:15 UTC

Ugh. Well, then maybe I'm not all that eager to read more Robin Schone. And Thea Devine... Well, I could read better softcore pr0n on the Intarwebz.

itgreyhound1 November 28 2007, 15:09:38 UTC

I love Robin Schone and hate Thea Devine. I cut Schone a lot of slack because she takes chances--some work, some don't. And I think she actually has an underlying theme to her novels (I don't think it's pedophelia/homophobia, by the way). It's all about female sexual empowerment and education for her and I give her credit for at least HAVING an underlying major theme in her writing which is unusual for this genre.

Shone's Scandalous Lovers is one of my top 10 all time favorite books. Yes, the Lady's Tutor has that homosexual storyline, but if you think about when that book originally came it it was actually pretty original back then to go that route.

Admittedly, Scandalous Lovers is a bit different than her other books. It's highly feminist (yay) and the hero/heroine are older than your average hero/heroines.