SWEET SAVAGE LOVE by Rosemary Rogers

ROSEMARY ROGERS is labelled as Queen of Historical Romance. Her novels are not to be taken lightly, not by her devoted readers, that is. I happen to be one of her fans. Miss Rogers has left a deep impression on me many years ago as a woman who knows her characters and the historical tapestry of her tales.
Clearly, her novels reveal that she has done some fair measure of research into breathing an air of authenticity into her stories.
From the breathtaking splendour of Paris ballrooms to the dusty sands of Mexico, Ginny Brandon was to meet her match in passion and desire in the form of Steve Morgan. Together they set the stage for one of the greatest love stories ever told by Rosemary Rogers.
Ginny is the stunningly attractive daughter of an American senator and her paramour is Steve, a soldier of fortune, in modern day parlance, a mercenary. Steve and Ginny will fight each other's attraction in the unpredictable and sometimes dangerous circumstances that prevail in the wild, wild West before they come to terms with love's paramount objective.
Sweet Savage Love is a novel that unchains your heart and frees it from the confines of self-imposed emotional restrictions. From Rosemary's imagination, you are free to roam and ride on her roller-coaster bandwagon of passion. It is a wonderful journey of love's unchained melody that will continue to haunt you long after you have put down the book.
It compells you to look at all desirable women from a new perspective. You may curse the day you lift the book and place it before your eyes because you have been a born-again romantic. Sweet Savage Love makes you want to protect and be gentle to the fairer gender. It softens your demeanor and checks your untamed desires towards all women.
Rosemary Rogers lifts her readers up on to a pedestal that forces them to look at love with eyes anew. She gently assuages your mental agonies over unrequited love and weakens your desire to run away from love.
I put this novel right on top among the top 10 romance novels I have read. It is majestic in its presentation; magnificent in its proclamation of love everlasting and prophetic in predicting that there's no place to hide from true love.
Read it and weep with joy.


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SHANNA by Kathleen Woodiwiss

I REMEMBER the romance novel Shanna like it was yesterday. I read it a long time ago but it put me on the path to reading more novel of such ilk that it make my growing years rather fun.
For a long time, I was exposed to reading Jane Austen, Bronte sisters, and Georgette Heyer. They were interesting, informative and for the first two, literary.
Then came along Miss Woodiss. Now, she could really spun a tale.
Shanna is about a young girl of 21 who practically ran into the arms of a handsome, rugged stranger named Ruark.
Woodiwiss writes with such passion that it inflamed my heart. And I always thought that it was an exclusive emotion of women. Shanna is simply one of the best romance books I have ever read.
I was quite shocked when I first read it to find out that it was really so good. The historical background and other details that accompanied the story were so finely interwoven into the story that they were seamless.
Kathleen Woodiwiss got enormous respect from me after that novel. I believe I still have that book in my bookshelf somewhere. I couldn't bear the thought of giving it away. Hey, that was practically my first romance novel and it opened up my eyes to romance.
Man seldom like to admit they are romantic. It is taken that the romantic feeling is kind of sissy. I couldn't be more wrong. I learnt that fact later in life.
Basically, the short is like this: In the year of our lord 1749, a beautiful, young woman by the name of Shanna Trehern ran away from home because she didn't agree to an arranged marriage.
That man whom she was running away from was Ruark Beauchamp. The fact that he's a convict helped Shanna to attempt to get as far away from him as possible. They did actually got married but that was an early occurrence. Ruark was not so easily deterred because he pursued her all the way to the Caribbean.
And the romance of two strong-willed persons begins. The tug-of-way between obstinacy and love is an age-old feeling that governed the lives of man since time immemorial. Shanna is intelligent, fiery and passionate. Ruark is kind, slightly rough and domineering and also frightfully handsome.
So while they battle for their own individuality, love somehow intervenes and binds the two wayward hearts into one and set them ablaze with the eternal flame of desire.
Shanna is a novel of great emotional proportions. It is guaranteed to make the reader want to believe in love. Love is scorching, unpredictable but in the end, totally enjoyable.
Kathleen Woodiwiss has upped the ante on romance novels with her magnificent effort. She stands among some of the greatest romance writers of our times.



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OUSTED - An Insider's Story of the Ties That Failed to Bind

AUTHOR: Patrick Keith
PUBLISHERS: Media Masters


THE history of Malaya and Singapore has been intertwined for centuries. People from both lands criss-crossed the border from the days of the beginning of the Malacca Sultanate and they regarded both lands as one.
In the later half of the 1950s, both Malaya and Singapore were pushing forward their national agendas after emerging victorious from bruising battles with the Communists. History has revealed that the leaders during that time perceived that a merger of Malaya, Singapore, Sabah, Sarawak and Brunei, would be a win-win solution for all concerned, though Brunei opted out at the 11th hour.
For Singapore, merger topped its agenda. Lee Kuan Yew of the People's Action Party was confi dent such a merger would be a political marriage with grand possibilities.
And so it came to pass in 1963, Malaya, Singapore, Sabah and Sarawak merged into one nation called Malaysia. However, in a short span of two years, unresolved differences of opinion between political leaders from both sides of the Causeway cast asunder the two key players.
Lee and his PAP colleagues who fought long and hard in that battle for merger, was aghast at Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman's decision. The acrimony between the Alliance of Malaya and PAP of Singapore, which began acrimoniously almost immediately after Malaysia was formed, escalated until the separation in 1965.
Much has been written about the split, which shook Singapore more than it did Malaya. Now 40 years on, a journalist who worked for The Malay Mail and later The Straits Times, has written the story as he saw it back in those tumultuous days.
Ousted consists of three sections. The fi rst is Tunku Abdul Rahman's view of the separation. Singapore's perspective is discussed at length in the second section, and the third section presents Tan Siew Sin's side of the story. Tan was the president of the Malayan Chinese Association. The separation continues to be a touchy subject between the two countries and Ousted gives it an impartial treatment.
In his foreward, Patrick Keith says: "The time had come to attempt a different way of approaching the separation story". On that score, he is right. Forty years is far too long for such an important story to lie dormant. Ousted will serve as an interesting appendix to the study of regional politics by academics and political scientists from both sides of the border. Keith takes no sides in this political skirmish that left both nations with memories that have seldom been discussed, and definitely not fondly remembered.
The author has deliberately given no inkling of his personal opinion of the separation issue. All the key players in the Malaya-Singapore separation have had their say.
One is tempted to draw one's own conclusions after reading Ousted, but the story of Singapore and Malaysia continues to play on even today. Albeit without the angst and acrimony of the past.
The future of this region is deeply rooted in its history. Therefore, to acquire a deeper understanding of the political developments of Malaysia and Singapore, Ousted must be read objectively.






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