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Title: Tender Savage

Author: Iris Johansen

Narrator: Susan Boyce

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-27-10

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 28 votes

Genres: Romance, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Lara Clavel has come to the Caribbean prepared to risk her life to free Ricardo Lazaro, legendary poet-warrior and rebel leader. Once in his cramped cell, she feels a savage desire to be possessed by him, and Ricardo is trapped by circumstance into taking all that this golden angel offers.

Members Reviews:

Another Tender Caribbean Romance - Johansen LITE

I have learned to love Iris Johansen's romances (I've listed some of my favorites at the bottom of this review). One thing many have in common is wonderfully complex plots, multifaceted characters and exotic locales. I loved this story, and like the related story, ONE TOUCH OF TOPAZ, it takes place in the Caribbean. While I recommend it, I cannot give it 5 stars because like TOPAZ, it's lacking some meat in my mind. That is, I wanted more story, more plot, more of what Iris Johansen delivers so well. 277 pages just wasn't enough.

Lara Clavel, an American, is out to make sure her twin brother Brett isn't wounded again, or worse, in the fight for freedom of St. Pierre, a Caribbean island country (fictional). So she agrees to risk her life to save the life of the poet warrior who is the rebel leader, Ricardo Lazaro. She agrees to purposefully get caught and taken to the dreadful Abbey prison where he is being held and the guards use her to try and get to him, forcing Lazaro to take her virginity. In the process, Ricardo falls in love with her. Once free, he does not intend to let her go. Then suddenly all that changes...

Don't get me wrong. This is a well-written romance by one of the greats. But there could have been so much more story. I didn't want it to end so soon. So, if you're looking for a quick read that won't disappoint, get this one--and the related one, ONE TOUCH OF TOPAZ (I'd read it first). But if you like her very complex stories, you might want to consider her other historical novels that I believe justify 5 stars:

--The Wind Dancer series: The Wind Dancer, Storm Winds, and Reap the Wind (buy the 1991 version of this last one) and there's a 4th, Final Target I've not read (for which the reviews are not as good)

--The Beloved Scoundrel

--The Magnificent Rogue

--The first in the Sedikhan Series: The Golden Barbarian

Now a Reprint - BE WARNED!

I bought this book back before it was reprinted. Now it is reprinted and going for sale at $7.99 so be warned!

Ricardo Lazaro, legendary poet-warrior and rebel leader of Saint Pierre, had been captured saving her brother, and Lara Clavel had come to the Caribbean island ready to risk her life to free him. She knew the rescue plan would work only if she persuaded his jailer that the powerful freedom fighter had fallen in love with her...but once she faced the daring man of danger in his cramped cell she felt a savage desire to be possessed, to be bound to him in every way a man and woman could be! Ricardo was desperate to spare this golden angel any pain her brave act might cost, but he was wild with desire - and trapped by circumstance into taking all she offered. Only his strength had kept him alive through years of war...until Lara's sweet fire made him remember what the struggle had taken away.