"His battle-scarred fingers stroked the smooth head of his pet tiger."
I believe this just might be the best sentence ever written in a romance novel (or any other novel, for that matter).
Ahahahahahahahahahaaaaaa perfect. Elinor Glyn is weeping somewhere in Heaven for not being the one to come up with it.
It is, of course, one of the surprisingly large subset of "gorgeous Christian girl converts virile Roman pagan dude through the power of her love! But not before he kills a whole bunch of people in sexy yet unChristian fashion!" books. Quo Vadis (and much later, Francine Rivers) has a lot to answer for. I am not Christian but I used to read a lot of those when I was younger. Apparently I wasn't yet done.
Heroine has just been sold into slavery by her evil (and pagan) Uncle, even though she is a Roman citizen. As the book is called The Gladiator, I will let you guess what the hero's profession is. (In case you were wondering, the author is Carla Capshaw, and it's stumbling across this and other entries in her ouvre that reminded me of Spartacus series' existence and made me go hunt for it - mainly in hopes for less religious stuff and more nudity. I've been satisfied on both counts).
I believe this just might be the best sentence ever written in a romance novel (or any other novel, for that matter).
Ahahahahahahahahahaaaaaa perfect. Elinor Glyn is weeping somewhere in Heaven for not being the one to come up with it.
It is, of course, one of the surprisingly large subset of "gorgeous Christian girl converts virile Roman pagan dude through the power of her love! But not before he kills a whole bunch of people in sexy yet unChristian fashion!" books. Quo Vadis (and much later, Francine Rivers) has a lot to answer for. I am not Christian but I used to read a lot of those when I was younger. Apparently I wasn't yet done.
Heroine has just been sold into slavery by her evil (and pagan) Uncle, even though she is a Roman citizen. As the book is called The Gladiator, I will let you guess what the hero's profession is. (In case you were wondering, the author is Carla Capshaw, and it's stumbling across this and other entries in her ouvre that reminded me of Spartacus series' existence and made me go hunt for it - mainly in hopes for less religious stuff and more nudity. I've been satisfied on both counts).