![]() ![]() ![]() Sweet Savage Love, Alternative Cover version, Avon, Tom Hall cover art The Hero & The Heroine This is a true bodice ripper, featuring rape, forced seduction, abduction, cheating, adultery, multiple sex partners, a dominant, magnetic hero, and a heroine who stomps her feet in anger while her eyes flash in defiance. Of course, the hero was laying pipe across the United States and Mexico, the primary setting for Sweet Savage Love. Sweet Savage Love showed readers that “good” women could have passionate sex with a hero outside of marriage and also have passionate sex with men other than the hero. Published by Avon in 1974, this 700+ page doorstopper was a monumental game-changer in an era of social transformation. Woodiwiss‘ The Flame and the Flower–the blockbuster historical that launched a new genre: the modern romance novel. Where to begin with this review? Sweet Savage Love by the great Rosemary Rogers is–along with Kathleen E. ![]() TOTAL SPOILER ALERT ⚠ Sweet Savage Love, The (Other) Mother of Romance Genres: Historical Romance, Bodice Ripper, Western Romance ![]() Book Series: Ginny & Steve #1, Morgan & Challenger Saga #1 ![]()
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