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Sto caricando le informazioni... Belladonna (edizione 1999)di Karen Moline (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. It's summer. So that means my staple summer reads get pulled off the book shelf. Belladonna by Karen Moline is just that. As the front of the cover states, Belladonna is a story of revenge. It is told from the view of Tomasino and he tells the story of the 20-something year journey that leads a simple girl from the Midwest to become the famed Belladonna of New York's high society. I first read this book about six years ago. I saw it at Barnes & Noble and the front of the cover intrigued me (I am one of those that picks books by covers...yes) and it was on sale, so I bought it. And I read it within two days. And have continued to read it every summer since. Belladonna is an intriguing story and very risque. I once explained to my friend that it was like watching a Lifetime movie except you actually get the dirty details that are so often left out of those made for TV movies. Throughout the book, there are moments where you will laugh, cry, be scared, bite your nails, and get turned-on. Which, in my opinion, makes for an excellent summertime beach/pool read. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Belladonna was sold as a sexual slave for $1 million. After years of abuse at the hands of an anonymous English aristocrat and his peers she escapes with her daughter and two servants. One of these, Thomasino, an Italian partisan castrated by the Gestapo, narrates the story - how he and his brother nurse her back to confidence and how they decide to seek revenge on the people who so damaged her and caused the death of her son. They settle in New York and open an opulent and decadent nightclub, sure that its erotic reputation will lure the men who abused her. The plan succeeds but only after Belladonna has fallen for Guy and believes she no longer needs the protection of Thomasino. Disillusioned and hurt he realises that revenge is not a sweet dish and in an exquisitely moving finale Belladonna comes to the same conclusion. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.914Literature English English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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It is Dark fiction; a young woman goes to her first party while visiting relatives in England but ends up being taken and auctioned off as a sexual slave. All a part of a (once every ten years?) ritual by a high ranking secret society. The auctioned off woman is held in sexual servituted by a length of time determined by how much money she fetched at auction. That money is held in a Swiss account until her release. The heroine in this book broke all the records by getting the biggest pay but having the longest stay...something like seven years.
For years she is held, in a gilded cage that doesn't allow her to leave the room and is attended by two brothers who were also captives and eunics -- punishment for being caught trying to steal.
They all escape taking with them one of the two babies she had by her captor. Her twins were born and the son was taken away---she never knew what happened to him. Her daughter was able to be taken when they escaped. They spend the rest of the book building a life and seeking out each member of the secret society that caused her captivity by abducting her from a party and holding the auction that sold her to the unknown man. She had never seen him because he blindfolded her for the years she spent with him.
Her biggest fear was being found and retaken, her biggest goal was to find and expose the secret society that every five years auctions off young unsuspecting women. How she goes about achieving her goals and her life during those years was what made the book so good.
It's a definite re-read for me..... ( )