by Bertrice Small
Leave it to ole Bertrice to shake things up, delivering a most chaste harem saga. I mean, wow, she kind of makes it seem like the most sensible thing ever. The endless descriptions of both dress, hierarchy, and the chessboard game of thrones was a bit dulling, and that's after you swallowed the pl...
I enjoyed the first part of the book, but the rest of it was Doom, destruction, death, doom, destruction, death etc. etc. It ended up being like a train wreck, I didn't want to read it anymore but I couldn't stop!
Bertrice Small's best and one of her earliest novels. Four girls taken as slaves in the Ottoman Empire decide that it's better to work together than against each other and form a bond of friendship to protect each other. Fairly good as the Old Skool Bodice Rippers go.