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"Jewish doctoress Miriam is engaged to Benjamin Torres but ends up getting pregnant by his long-lost half-brother Rigo, a fierce mercenary and half-caste Indian. Struggling with guilt towards gentle Benjamin, the two marry and emigrate to the Torres estate in the Carribean. But someone is robbing transports from the estate and trying to kill Rigo.
Meanwhile, Benjamin adopts Rani, a wild gipsy girl, and tries to civilize her, staring by teaching her the virtues of bathing after 17 years of built-up dirt!
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Inger, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Time/era of story
- Elizabethan era
Forbidden/mismatched love?
Yes
How mismatched?
- interracial loving!
Love Triangles/Polygons
Yes
What kind:
- one women--two brothers
Main Male Character
Profession/status:
- infantry soldier
Age/status:
- 20's-30's
How sexual is this person?
- somewhat promiscuious
How romantic is this person?
- not very romantic
How sensitive is this character?
- soggy whimpering jelly muffin
Physique
- very athletic
If he's not white he must be...
- indian
Main Female Character
Age/status:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- doctor/medical
How sexual is this person?
- naive virgin
How romantic is this person?
- not very romantic
effect of sexing
- guilty
Sex has bad effect on her
Yes
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Setting
Europe
Yes
The Americas (not US):
Yes
The Americas:
- The Caribbean
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- very explicit references to deaths and torture
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- descript of kissing
- touching of anatomy
- licking
- impregnation/reproduction
- actual description of sex
- descript. of female anatomy (the big B's)
- descript. of female anatomy (the big V)
- descript. of male nudity (the big P)
Part of a series?
Yes
Focus of story
- equally on two couples
Consequences of sex
- pregnancy
How much dialog
- significantly more dialog than descript
How much sexing?
- 5-9 sex acts
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