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"As a child Tristan saw his mother raped and killed by Don Miguel De Bastida and has sworn revenge. Bettina Verlaine is being sent to a Carribean island to wed an unknown plantation owner, but her ship is boarded by Tristan's pirates. He captures her and rapes her repeatedly until she becomes pregnant. She tries to escape several times and is captured by Bastida in the end. Tristan rescues her, kills his enemy and marries the woman who somehow believes that rape can lead to a romantic hapy ending if she accepts it."
Inger, Resident Scholar
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"A Pirate's Love is the story of a young French girl named Bettina Verlaine, who is forced into an arranged marriage by her mother and stepfather, to Comte Pierre de Lambert. On the voyage to marry the Comte, Bettina's ship is captured by pirates and the captain, Tristan holds them captive, or so she believes. Tristan makes a deal with her: if she has sex with him, and does not fight him in anyway, he will spare her crew. Bettina is forced to agree, but thinks of the encounter as rape, which is what it turns out to be.
Bettina then finds out that she and her elderly servant woman, Maddie, are the only ones Tristan has captured, and that he lied about killing any of the men on the original ship. So Bettina is trapped, and dishonored, time after time, as Tristan continues to force himself on her, yet, Lindsey makes a weak attempt to portray this as Bettina just fighting her real feelings for the pirate, and actually liking the sex.
She manages to escape a few times, and at one point, meets the Comte, but when she overhears him saying that he will not marry her, now that she has been dishonored, Bettina realizes that Tristan might be a better man after all.
Bettina eventually finds out she is pregnant, and because of a series of misunderstandings, Tristan thinks the child is the Comte's. There are also a few inconsequential subplots: Tristan is looking for some man named Don Miguel, who killed his parents, and Bettina's mother admits that her real father is some friend of Tristan's.
Rape is not romantic. I don't know where Johanna Lindsey got that idea, or why this particular book is so vile, when many of her others are not. But I just found myself wondering, if Bettina had only stayed in her cabin, then the pirates would never have seen her, and her first time may have been with her husband, and not some scuzzy pirate."
Nicole Garrett, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Time/era of story
- 17th century
Seduction/coercion/force
Yes
How seduced/forced?
- rape
Action/suspense subplot?
Yes
Action:
- pirate attack!
Captor, in love with
Yes
If one lover chases another...
- he chases after her
Who seduces whom?
- man seducing woman
Main Male Character
Profession/status:
- pirate
Age/status:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric/mental:
Yes
How sexual is this person?
- several sexual encounters
- squeaky clean virgin
How romantic is this person?
- as romantic as a root canal
- not very romantic
Sex makes him
- more bitchy/arrogant
Sex has bad effect on him
Yes
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- bulging muscles
Main Female Character
Age/status:
- a teen
Profession/status:
- wealthy
How sexual is this person?
- naive virgin
How romantic is this person?
- not very romantic
effect of sexing
- angry
Sex has bad effect on her
Yes
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
Water?
Yes
Water:
- warship
- sail boat
Island?
Yes
Misc setting
- castle
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
- explicit references to torture
What % of story is romance related?
- 10%
- 50%
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- descript of kissing
- touching of anatomy
- actual description of sex
- descript. of female anatomy (the big B's)
- rape/molest (yeech!)
Focus of story
- Her
- equally on him and her
Consequences of sex
- pregnancy
How much dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
- significantly more descript than dialog
How much sexing?
- 3-4 sex acts
- 5-9 sex acts
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