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Lorelle wrote: "Hi Evelyn, What is the name of the book with Domenico and Felicia in it?"

I think it's The Silver Devil

Lorelle wrote: "Hi Evelyn, What is the name of the book with Domenico and Felicia in it?"

That would be The Silver Devil by Teresa Denys. She only wrote 2 books but they were some of the best books I've ever read. The descriptions of the people and places are amazing.

I haven't read Silver Devil yet, but I have read The Flesh and the Devil and yes, one of the best books I've ever read. She's got a way with description and characters.

I really liked the Silver Devil. I plan on reading the Flesh and the Devil when I get ahold of the book.

The Flesh and the Devil was also really good except it was kinda weird that the hero has flaming red hair. It was actually better than The Silver Devil in some ways, like Felipe wasn't nearly as insane as Domenico. And the deformed nephew, when Denys first described him, it almost made me sick, it was so real sounding.

Welcome to the group Evelyn! :)

Jennefer wrote: "Welcome to the group Evelyn! :)"

Thanks Jennefer! It looks like a lot of fun! I've been looking for a place like this for months. :)

Evelyn wrote: "Jennefer wrote: "Welcome to the group Evelyn! :)"

Thanks Jennefer! It looks like a lot of fun! I've been looking for a place like this for months. :)"

So glad you found us!

Hi everyone! I'm Jessica ---

Birthday - 17 March 1987
What i had for dinner last night - vegetable soup
Music/Radio Station in my car - I flip through stations like you wouldn't beleive... I don't think I ever listen to one whole song
Favorite Childhood Memory - playing in the pond at my parent's house
Favourite place to read - ANYWHERE!
First Romance Novel (that I can remember) - A Loving Scoundrel by Johanna Lindsey
Favourite Romance couple - right now I would say.... Whitney and the Duke of Westmoreland from Whitney, My Love by Judith McNaught
Why did I join this group? - I recently re-discovered my love for these kinds of books and decided to try and find some good recs from this group!

Welcome to the group Jessica! I agree about Whitney, My Love, its up there among my favorites :)

I loved that book! It was such an emotional roller coaster... I had to take a break for a few days and read something very light and fluffy!

Birthday: 8/2
What did you have for dinner last night?: Hamburgers
What CD/radio station(type of music) is in your car right now?: Country
Favorite childhood memory (briefly): Dancing on the roof of my aunt's Brooklyn brownstone to WABC with NYC skyline in view.
When/where do you most like to read?: in front of fireplaace
First romance novel read (that you can remember): Scarlet Angel (Jennifer Wilde)
Favorite romance couple: "This Heart of Mine" by SEP
Why did you decide to join this group?: I like Bodice rippers are my little secret..its my little vice.

Welcome everyone Annefes, Jessica, and Evelyn :)

Welcome to the group Annfes!

Hello everyone! So excited to have found a fun group of people who all share a love of reading and discussing one of my guilty as hell pleasures!

Birthday: 06-06-81
What did you have for dinner last night?: Breakfast for dinner!
What CD/radio station(type of music) is in your car right now?: Classic rock, butt rock, Johnny Cash, Pixies, White Stripes
Favorite childhood memory (briefly): Family time!
When/where do you most like to read?: At home, in bed, next to my Leg Lamp, before drifting off to sleep...
First romance novel read (that you can remember): Flash of the Firefly
Favorite romance couple: Darcy & Elizabeth
Why did you decide to join this group?: To have an outlet to discuss bodice-rippers, and to be in a community that I know will make me smile and laugh!

Howdy Kelly!

Welcome to the group Kelley! I love breakfast for dinner! One of my favorites :)

Hey there... I am Lissa and I am crazy about a good romance novel. My first romance novels were by Katherine Woodwise and Valeria Sherwood (think that was their names), and I was hooked ever since. I do bounce around on the type of book I am reading and certainly try to expand my horizon. However, to find a juicy, romantic, historical novel is my joy. I am excited about finding this group and look forward to the reviews given.

HI, my name is Dana and I'm a new member.

Birthday: Ground Hog's Day
What did you have for dinner last night?: Sushi and wine and Russian Tea Cookies
What CD/radio station(type of music) is in your car right now?: Buffy (The Musical)
Favorite childhood memory (briefly): Staring at the ocean for the first time while holding my mom's hand. Then running screaming away as the first wave hit. :-)
When/where do you most like to read?: Anytime, anywhere. I do a lot of my reading while walking or on the Muni...
First romance novel read (that you can remember): Either Sweet Savage Love or The Flame and the Flower. Unless gothics count and then we go into Mary Stewart or Victoria Holt territory...
Favorite romance couple: I dinna have an answer for this at this time... Definitely NOT Ginny and Steve 'cause they irritate me with all their squabbling...
Why did you decide to join this group?: Because I love Karla and Jeanine's blog Get Your Bodices Ripped Here, because I got verbally shredded on Dear Author for using the term 'bodice ripper', and because I have no patience with people who judge other people on what they enjoy reading. Without the classic bodice rippers and old romance/gothics, we wouldn't have a foundation for the modern romances. SO there, nyah, judgmental people! :-)

Hey everyone, my name's Sonia. I was really thrilled to see this group existed.

Birthday: October 15 1990
What did you have for dinner last night?: Steak and a salad
What CD/radio station(type of music) is in your car right now?: I love to listen to all types of rock music, some jazz, and a bit of the mainstream stuff as well. But the last CD I listened to was Aphrodite by Kylie Minogue
Favorite childhood memory (briefly): Probably the first time I went to Disney. I loved seeing the princesses and Minnie, plus my parents could not keep me away from the Dumbo ride.
When/where do you most like to read?: I love to read anytime I have free, anywhere I may be. It's my way to relax, but usually I read a bit before going to bed.
First romance novel read (that you can remember): My very first romance novel was The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn. It definitely one of my all time favorites.
Favorite romance couple: This is a tricky one, because there have been so many great couples, but I really love Evie and Sebastian from Lisa Kleypas's Devil in Winter.
Why did you decide to join this group?: Like I said, I was really excited to see a book dedicated to bodice rippers. I love romance, always a feel good read, but some of the books that come out nowadays seem almost the same. So I have slowly been discovering these books, and despite how they get ripped apart, I really like them. I'm hoping I can get some great recommendations here to read and discuss!

Jeanine � Cheshire Catt � wrote: "Hi Dana!! Glad to see you joined!"

Thank you! Now I just need more time to hang out and make mischief!

My name is Jennifer.
Birthday - December 12th, 1974
Dinner last night - Lil Smokies in BBQ Sauce
Music in my truck now - 80's station
Childhood memory - Getting a Barbie Dreamhouse for Christmas when I was 6
Where and when I like to read - Anywhere and anytime
First Romance Novel - Skye O'Malley by Bertrice Small
Fave Romance couple - Skye O'Malley and Adam de Marisco
Why Join - Love these books. Would like to chat with people who love them too!

Hi Jennifer!

Skye & Adam definitely earned their HEA! :-)

Hello! My name is Veronica!
Birthday: April 21, 1972
What did you have for dinner last night?: Pork chops, scalloped potatoes, corn on the cob & hot rolls
What CD/radio station(type of music) is in your car right now?: I'm at work & listening to 'Closer' by Kings of Leon
Favorite childhood memory (briefly): Spending summers at my grandparents house
When/where do you most like to read?: Every chance I get, but my fav is during good weather out on my porch swing
First romance novel read (that you can remember): Hearts Aflame by Johanna Lindsey (and I have read this one over & over)
Favorite romance couple: Oh tooooo many to pic just one!
Why did you decide to join this group?: Luv to read, and would luv to pick up ideas on books that perhaps I have missed out on!!

Welcome to the group Veronica! I wish I had a porch swing! That sound fabulous! :)

OK, I'll play:

Birthday:
Skipped

What did you have for dinner last night?
Well, I went with a friend to Country Buffet, so I had nibbles of all kinds of stuff.

What CD/radio station(type of music) is in your car right now?
Best of Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Favorite childhood memory (briefly):
Riding horses with a friend.

When/where do you most like to read?
Anytime, anywhere. If I don't have a book with me I feel naked.

First romance novel read (that you can remember):
Shanna (Mom and I read it together and giggled and blushed a lot)

Favorite romance couple:
Maybe The Phantom and Christine? (Dunno if that classifies as a romance, though.)

Why did you decide to join this group?
I have enjoyed a number of books that probably classify as BR's, and I guess I'm supporting the group because I don't like the PCer's that try to make you feel wrong for liking them, and pressure publishers to shy away from them. This is fantasy, folks! We ALL read stuff in books that we wouldn't want to live out in real life, and we ALL have fantasies that we wouldn't play out in fact. Books are a safe place to explore and play with these things. If it's not your thing, go play in another playground and live and let live.

Welcome to the group Elle and amen to that! Thanks for the support! :)

Hello All! My name is Tonya

Birthday: 12/04/77
What did you have for dinner last night?: Soup.
What CD/radio station(type of music) is in your car right now..." I love to read, but don't have a lot of free time. So usually, my cd player has an audio book which I listen to during my communte.

Favorite childhood memory (briefly): My goldent birthday (4years old). We just moved into our new house, and all of my friends and family were there. My great grandpa gave me one of those presents that is a box, in a box, in a box..., I remember having so much fun opening that present- but I don't actually remember what the present was- but I know I had fun opening it! LOL
When/where do you most like to read?:Mostely where ever or when ever I can- as I don't have a lot of free time, but my favorite place to read is at home in bed.
First romance novel read (that you can remember): Hmmm, I think it was Danielle Steel Message From Nam.
Favorite romance couple: There are so many, but I don't think you can beat the classics- Pride and Prejudice, and Jane Ayere. Not a lot of sex/seduction, but that isn't always necessary, but it is usually a bonus! :)
Why did you decide to join this group?: I am so excited to find a group who shares my love of, what I call, "trashy romance novels"! I am such a sucker for historical romance novels with great sex scenes. They are definitely my guilty pleasure.

Welcome Tonya! The story of the box in a box in a box is so cute! :)

Hi!, my name is Kayla and i was born in 1992.
~i have to admit i havent read as many Bodice Rippers but i do find them exciting <3.
~i like to read: everywhere! lol i read during lectures, family dinners and car rides but i love to read during a rainy night and some hot cocoa. :)
~ music: i like everything and have pretty much everything in my ipod
~i had a bbq for my birthday last night lol
~ why did i join? cuz i really want to find a book that i can say "WOW that was good" im looking for a book that can impact you and make laugh,cry and get spitting mad :) hope u guys can help!

Hi Everyone! I look forward finding some new authors and books to read and sharing what I have already read.

Birthday: 1965
What did you have for dinner last night?: Chicken sandwich
What CD/radio station(type of music) is in your car right now?: Country
Favorite childhood memory (briefly): Swimming at the lake almost daily
When/where do you most like to read?: Couch in home library (when daughter went to college her room became a library)
First romance novel read (that you can remember): The Thorn Birds
Favorite romance couple: hmm…so many. I will say Megan Penworthy and Devlin Jefferys (Ambrose St. James) from Man of My Dreams by Johanna Lindsey
Why did you decide to join this group?: I LOVE bodice rippers � Alpha males and spunky women

Hello!

My name is Joli and enjoy reading and re-reading all of my bodice ripper romance that I have collected.
I am currenctly reading Rosemary Rogers' Dark Fires for the 4th time along with Maggie Osborne's Yankee Princess (love!). I decided to join this group because I love to read reviews about bodice rippers
romance and hear from other members. Favorite romance couple(s) are: Heather and Brandon from The Flame and the Flower, Shanna and Ruark Beauchamp. Also enjoy reading older Harlequin Romance novels ((1970's to early 80's) I mostly read my books at night in my bed.

Welcome Kayka, Talkit & Joli! :)

Joli, I just finished reading Dark Fires for the first time. LOVED IT! Steve & Ginny are my favorite BR couple. Talk about dysfunctional codependents...

Thanks Karla for the welcome. :)
Nice to see so many younger readers enjoying the classic bodice rippers.

Hey, my name's CP. And I'm obsessed with bodice rippers. Don't know how I got into them. I have read Catherine Coulter, Beatrice Small and Jude Deveraux and tend to stick to historical romance. Love Scottish and Irish BR's.

Birthday: 7/17/68
What did you have for dinner last night?: Chicken and perogi's
What CD/radio station(type of music) is in your car right now?: I love 80's stuff
Favorite childhood memory (briefly): Weekend at Fish Lake Beach
When/where do you most like to read?: I just got a Nook and I read wherever I am. I read while walking on the treadmill or laying around.
First romance novel read (that you can remember): Forever by Judy Blume... does that count?
Favorite romance couple: Lyonene and the Black Lyon from Jude Deveraux
Why did you decide to join this group?: Looking for more books to read!!!

Welcome CP! I love Jude Deveraux, too.

My first romances were those left in our attic from my sister-in-law. I'd sneak up, take one, and hide it under my pillow. Slowly I edged my mother in to buying me more. She went from refusing to buy me "porn" to laughing and rolling her eyes at me for reading my "sex books" to within the last three or four years, grudgingly liking a few "mainstream" romances.

Birthday: 6/13/1989

What did you have for dinner last night?: Parmesan pasta

What CD/radio station(type of music) is in your car right now?: Don't own a car but I listen to a large variety of genres but I love songs with darker tones.

Favorite childhood memory (briefly): @.@ I can barely remember my childhood and usually what I can remember is in no way a "favorite" memory

When/where do you most like to read?: My bed, anytime but especially night.

First romance novel read (that you can remember): I remember two very specifically. Nightfall by Anne Stuart and Highland Hawk by Lois Greiman. Both were read while I was in the 6th grade so based on that and the fact that HH was new, I must have been 10 years old. I think of my 12 yr-old niece reading these specific books and want to see her locked in a convent lol.

Favorite romance couple: At first I thought "no way can I choose". Then I looked back at my favorites and the winner was clear: Gillian of Warewick and Christopher of Blackmour in This Is All I Ask by Lynn Kurland.

Why did you decide to join this group?: Because I figured it'd be nice to know that there really are people who enjoy the same books I do. I'm tired of going on Amazon and seeing some of my favorite books being torn apart by people horrified at hero "rape".

Welcome Heather! Those flame wars on Amazon about bodice rippers and rape do get ugly. This place is an oasis from all that.

Yes it is. Hero rape is the least of my concerns about bodice rippers. :)

I know what you mean Heather, although I actually find the reviews and forums on Amazon pretty entertaining. I think there were a few trolls on there that were shaking things up a bit.

Hello! My name is Sej and I'm not a bodice ripper fan, however I was back in the day and I can totally see the humor nowadays and love reading the funny reviews! LOL

Birthday: Dec 6

What did you have for dinner last night?: Cereal w/ milk (bodice rippers got no time for making dinner)
What CD/radio station(type of music) is in your car right now?: Top 40 mostly. I love 80s.

Favorite childhood memory (briefly): learning how to swim in the pool.

When/where do you most like to read?: I like to read at home in my bed. Usually in the evening when everyone's sleeping.

First romance novel read (that you can remember): Gosh it was one of those Silhouette or Harlequin books. Those were some contemporary bodice rippers! Yeah! Lol.

Favorite romance couple: Hmmm Deck and Tracy in Dark of Night by Suzanne Brockmann! I love those two! Ok get off my back, if they were in a bodice ripper back in the day, they'd be killer bodice ripper!

Why did you decide to join this group?: Well I came across Cheshire Cat's review of Caress and Conquer by Connie Mason and found her review so hilarious I decided to stalk her reviews and then found this group somewhere on her page.

Hiya Kim!

Hi!

Birthday: Taurus on the cusp of Aries

What did you have for dinner last night?: I've slept since then.

What CD/radio station(type of music) is in your car right now?: Radio? What's that?

Favorite childhood memory (briefly): My dad rolling off the garage roof.

When/where do you most like to read?: Anywhere I can pull out my iPad or BlackBerry and snatch a few words.

First romance novel read (that you can remember): (It was a Harlequin, but I can't remember the title, only that the hero's name was Nick.) Otherwise, SHANNA by Kathleen Woodiwiss

Favorite romance couple: Aislinn and Wulfgar

Why did you decide to join this group?: Dhympna (above) led me to this group (which I did not know existed) because I love bodice rippers, and I wanted to comment.

Hi everyone!

Birthday: December 9, 1970

What did you have for dinner last night?: pizza

What CD/radio station(type of music) is in your car right now?: Avril Lavigne

Favorite childhood memory: playing card games with my sister

When/Where do you most like to read?: Anywhere/anytime

First romance novel read (that you can remeber): I don't remeber the title but it had this beautiful woman on it and she was surrounded by her blue gown

Favorite romance couple: Jamie Frasier and Claire Randall(from the Outlander series)

Why did you decide to join this group?: I just got back into reading BR and I wanted to find a place that I could find some good suggestions

Hello everyone!! Not sure where to post this, so here it goes...

I'm looking for a book that I read maybe 20 years ago...I can't for the life of me remember the title or author, but just the story...maybe someone else has read it?? I loaned the book out & never got it back :(

The story is during the Renaissance (I think), just remember that the herione of the story's dad has several gambling debts and she has to become a spy or they will be tossed into prison. She ends up spying and something happens that causes her to run off and she ends up in a small village...there she meets and falls in love w/the local miller. Their romance blossoms, however, her past comes back to haunt her and it turns out that the miller is acutally a duke (or something), and the one she was sent to spy on (but she didn't know)...he finds out & well, it's the typical romance from there..I really want to re-read this one...can anyone help me out?? Please and thank you!!!

Welcome, Camilla! I've heard lots about Island Flame. Good AND bad, and of course the bad makes me want to read it more. ;)

Veronica~Nhaughty wrote: "Hello everyone!! Not sure where to post this, so here it goes...

I'm looking for a book that I read maybe 20 years ago...I can't for the life of me remember the title or author, but just the st..."

Veronica, I'm moving your question to the Discussions and Questions folder.

Thread is here.

Thanks so much!! :)

As a teenager, I loved bodice rippers...and still do! Nice to see a group dedicated to these novels. I cut my teeth on Paradise Wild by Johanna Lindsey thanks to an older sister.

What did you have for dinner last night?: Chicken Kiev served on a bed of rice.
What CD/radio station(type of music) is in your car right now?: The System Has Failed by Megadeth.
Favorite childhood memory (briefly): Playing outside and swimming.
When/where do you most like to read?: My recliner.
First romance novel read (that you can remember): Paradise Wild by Johanna Lindsey.
Favorite romance couple: Hmm, my fave hero is Royce of Wyndhurst from Hearts Aflame, but as for my fave couple, I'd have to go with Chandos and Courtney from A Heart So Wild.
Why did you decide to join this group?: Because bodice rippers are my preference.

Hi my name is Rachel and I love bodice rippers

Birthday: 6th Dec

What CD/radio station(type of music) is in your car right now?: I don't have a car, but in the house the radio stays on 5 live, a UK talk radio station
Favorite childhood memory (briefly): going on holiday to Brixham, devon - in my memory ir was always sunny and i spent most of my time at the beach, swimming in the sea
When/where do you most like to read?: I like to read in bed, but often fall asleep, I read most on my commute into work 40 mins each way - a kindle is a godsend for that
First romance novel read (that you can remember):Johanna lindsay novel - but I cannot remember which one
Favorite romance couple: Elizabeth and Darcy
Why did you decide to join this group?: I like romances, but the women have to be strong, you get that more with bodice rippers

Welcome Raylee and Rachel! So happy to have more bodice ripper fans joining up. :)