Sweet Savage Love

By Rosemary Rogers

Book Overview

Sweet Savage Love by Rosemary Rogers released on Jul 25, 2001 is available now for purchase. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380008157
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: Avon
• Length: 636 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 1.0" x 4.3"

Customer Reviews

Trigger warning

Female lead is kidnapped and raped by her captor repeatedly. She idolizes him anyways. Can’t understand the high ratings here.

HATED some parts but this books deserves 5 stars!

This book was written almost 30 years ago?!! I was astonished when I read that, because this book reads like a modern day book, a VERY well written modern day novel. I must admit, I hate romance novels with bad hero/heroines and after reading the reviews here, I almost passed on it. Well let me tell you, I am glad I tried it. Up most, what you gotta keep in mind is, this can NOT be considered a "romance" book.. you'll HATE it if you start this book thinking that. You must have an open mind, know that in this book you'll see the heroine abused horrible again, and again... raped, kidnap, horrible hero who cheats EVERY other day ( I swear ), and the heroine puts up with it. This makes it worst, where was the heroine's pride? Yep, your typical 70s book. I remember one scene, SPOILER HERE : After the hero kidnaps the heroine, he takes her to a whore house to hide her, he then goes to another room to shower and to have sex with one of the girls and the heroine is right next door, he then comes in the room see's she's been crying, asleep... he thinks about having sex with her too, right after having sex with a whore... that pissed me off! LOL, yes, horrible hero, and there were many, many scenes like this here, he was a male slut! END SPOILER: There are so many reviews here so read those for plots I wont go into that... You will enjoy this dark "fiction" novel with a dark hero and a beautiful heroine who will do anything and put up with anything for her love for this undeserving hero ( imho ). That part drove me nuts... Nevertheless, this book deserves 5 stars because I was thoroughly entertained, i seriously could NOT put this hateful, woman degrading novel down, I became addicted to this epic novel mid way. There are so many twists, so many awful things the hero does and the heroine goes through that will make you grind your teeth and yet, YOU will sit there losing sleep because you just gotta read another page.... IT WAS THAT GOOD.. Yes, I hated this book as a female reader but damn, what a novel.

Nothing can ever compare to the Steve & Ginny series!

It was over 20 years ago that I first read this book - now I am an avid historical romance reader. And nothing compares to this series. You hate this couple, you love this couple, you want to scream into the book and shake them for the way they treat each other - You can certainly not feel indifferent to them. At first it is Ginny that grates on my nerves the most. It is probably her immaturity - she is young and so completely clueless to real life and she angers Steve unnessecarily, taunts him and teases him to think her totally different than she really is. Steve on the other hand is totally the way he appears, tough, hardened and completely without any moral compass. Only his grandfather seems to give him any conscence so he marries Ginny after totally compromising her. This is when the book takes you into the darkest of depths - what happens to both Steve and Ginny should not even happen to anyone, even in a novel!! But perhaps some of this was necessary for Ginny to grow up and become a real person. It was during this horrible point in Ginny's life when she thought Steve dead, worse him thinking that she had betrayed him, that she realizes how very much she always loved him. Steve's tortures were as bad if not worse, and he becomes even more of a dark sole. When Ginny finally finds out he is alive and manages to get to the hacienda where he will eventually return - it will take every skill in her power to convince Steve that she had not betrayed him and that she wants their marriage and him. Right now I wish there were not these other books in this series - which I know i have to read - but I cannot even stand to know that this couple will probably go through all the anguish all over again for many years to come. The saga of Steve & Ginny is a timeless, heartfelt smoldering love story that causes the reader to be overwhelmed with its intesity!!

Scarlett and Rhett move over....

I have read all the of Rosemary Rogers books based on the Steve and Ginny saga. I think that I must have been 15 at the time that I read these books and I am now 35. Even by today's standard, these books are one of the best in historical romance. I loved the relationship with Steve and Ginny. It was not your average Princess meets Prince and falls in love and lives happily ever after. Steve and Ginny had their ups and downs, they loved each other to distraction and when they were hating each other you could actually feel the dept of their hatred. The best thing I like about this series was that Rosemary Rogers made you feel and care about Steve and Ginny and even when they were apart, I was alway rooting for them to stop wasting time and get back together. If you like historical romances, this book will be the place to start. If by the end of the series you do not have any feeling for Steve and Ginny then I would suggest you start all over again because you must have missed something.