Bodice Ripper Readers Anonymous discussion

Well, I'm game. At the rate I read, it'll take a while, but it'll be fun to search for smut!

Iam in


1) Forced Seduction

(r-f-June1-2) (f-p-110-115)


2) Forced into Marriage

(r-f-June 15-16) (f-p-1-16)

3) Raped

(r-f-june 20- 22) (f-p-60-70)


4)

Priests Behaving Badly

(r-f-June 25-26) (p-384-390)


5)

Same Sex Relations

(r-f-June 28-29) (P-332-333)



6)

kidnap

( p 41-66) (r-f-Oct 4-5)

I will play but like Wendy it might take me a while (a lifetime) but I'm up for the challenge! :)

I am new to this group and this challange sounds like fun. I am in!

lol im sooo game! :D so do we post them in this thread?

oh and can it be books we have read in the past or do we have to be currently reading the book?

If I stumble on anything, I'll let you know, but most of the BR's I'll be reading will have come from suggestions found on this forum! LOL.

I'm setting this as my finds list.


-rape On pp 169-170 of the hero, Captain Tyrone, part-time slaver, pirate, politician and pimp, rapes Angel. It's painful since it's her first time, but Capt Ty treats her roughly as he thinks she's experienced (she has no hymen, having lost it in a fire). Finished 06-10-2011. (Reviewed)

-forced seduction
-oral sex Found in p.380: Melusine services "Sir Jehan." Finished 06-06-2011. (Review to come)
-anal sex
-kidnap
-sold into slavery
-forced into marriage
-three some
-permanent physical abuse - (scars or branding for example)
-whipping
-clothes literally torn off
-"light" physical abuse (i.e. slapping, hitting)
-heroine/hero near death
-same sex relations
-eunuchs I hope this one is ok... Read 6/23/2011: Alexa's godfather-uncle-first-husband Sir John couldn't have consummated the marriage even if he wanted, because his bits were blown off in the war. Not your typical eunuch, but still no manhood: Referenced several times including p. 382 "...Just as deluded as he must have been all those years ago to imagine that she might still want him after he was no longer a man."

-voodoo/black magic/occult goings on
-heroine drugged
-drug use/addiction

Some harder ones=-
-mixed racial relations
-priests behaving badly Ok, is pretty much a Wild Card freebie with just about every bodice ripper find and then some, but I'm picking this one since it's a huge part of the plot. Reverend Mauleverer is true identity of the evil pirate/slave-trader called El Diablo, The Devil. Debauched by an older boy at Eton, ordained as a man of the cloth at Oxford, the mild-seeming minister reveals to Purity on pp 424-427 that it was he who kidnapped her husband, led the Corsair fleet in the Mediterranean, took Purity into slavery and ravished her, and it he is who is the best damn cocksman on the planet.

-incest/almost incest/suspected - they (or someone else) thought it might be incest

I'm reading , the sequel to . The prequel was epic, but the second book has EVERY item on this bodice ripper list. What fun!

I have GOT to read that series. :D

♥ Cheshire Catt ♠ wrote: "Saved for Sign-ups & Status


Players
-Wendy - 1/21 done!
-Joeera
-Cheryl
-Jennefer
-Katherine"

Oh yes, I am in

Sharon's List: (which I will edit as I read)

rape
-forced seduction

-oral sex - WHITE KNIGHT - Jaclyn Reding 55898

"...Christian worked his mouth over her, tasting...teasing her with his tongue. He felt her legs tighten against his shoulders..."

-anal sex
-kidnap

-sold into slavery MIDNIGHT SLAVE - Rochelle Wayne

"...Lazarus interrupted to let them know that there was a slave trader out front wishing to speak to one of them"...(sister talking to Slave Trader)..."I want you to sneak ____ away from here. I'll pay you" ... "I'll do what you want ma'am. When I get her to New Orleans, I'll sell her on the vendue block. I'll send you half the money I get for her."

-forced into marriage
-three some

-permanent physical abuse - (scars or branding for example) LOVE, CHERISH ME - Rebecca Brandewyne

"Wolf went on relentlessly, taking off his beaded Indian collar so she might see, at last, the dreadful scar around his throat..."

-whipping
-clothes literally torn off
-"light" physical abuse (i.e. slapping, hitting)
-heroine/hero near death
-same sex relations
-eunuchs

-voodoo /black magic/occult-RAGE TO LOVE Maggie Osborne (reviewed)

"The scream awakened her...'You touched it..Lawdy, Lawd, you touched it'...blood smeared across her cheeks...clotted globules oozed between her toes...dangling from the top of her door swung a headless chicken, dripping blood onto the floor...The chicken's feet were bound ...bits of red human hair and knotted ribbon and dyed feathers dangled from the carcass, nailed into place by hatpins...2 painted gourds swung on either side of the chicken, patterned over the black, nightmarish forms"...


-heroine drugged - UPON A MOON-DARK MOOR Rebecca Brandewyne (reviewed)

"dimly reality penetrated...sprawled half naked...with my skirts rucked up about my thighs...the effects of the brandy and laudanum had been..."

-drug use/addiction

Some harder ones=-
-mixed racial relations

-priests behaving badly THE FALLEN ANGELS - Susannah Kells/Bernard Cornwall Fallen Angels

Major secondary character, heroines uncle - the Bishop of Bellechasse:
..."I used to preach a very good sermon in which I would terrify a parish into making their confessions.
I would then listen in the confessional and make a note of which ladies had committed adultery. Then, if they were very pretty, I would visit them and compound the offense, though with instant forgiveness, of course.."

-incest/almost incest/suspected - they (or someone else) thought it might be incest

Thanks, you've done a GREAT job planning this challenge. A few questions for my own clarity:

incest: does it include other characters in the story or just H or h? Would 1st cousins be considered incestuous? Step parent w/step child?

sold into slavery: does it include - sold into indenture? sold into prostitution? must be H or h only in the story? h won in a card game?

I'll let Jeanine make the final decision, but as for the incest thing, I'd say that the H or h has to be 1/2 of an incest pairing. And 1st cousins doesn't count IMO.

Thanks.

♥ Cheshire Catt ♠ wrote: "Go Wendy!!! :D You are in the lead with the first one found!"

Thanks, but Joeera deserves that credit, having found forced seduction first in So Speaks the Heart.

I added some more finds to my list. I haven't reviewed them yet, but Purity's Ecstasy is so great/awful it needs one soon.

I have another question...can the BR elements on this scavenger hunt come from post BR years? ... Like from the 1990's through 2000's?

♥ Cheshire Catt ♠ wrote: "
I'd say that if you can find a newer romance novel with some of these elements it would work - we are always trying to find some modern authors writing in the old skool style. "

Well, I just read one that was anal, a historical erotica written in 2000's. I wouldn't say it is written in old skool BR style...the (H) is a horn dog and there is menage, but I'm thinking of this one primarily because of the rogering one of the characters got.

Forget it. Not even close to BR style. Just had the element from the list is why I thought of it. But then, most of the new stuff out today has rear ends getting stuffed...

Just a notice to the mods, I and a few others have updated our checklists. This is fun! :-)

I'm new to this group, but laughing at the scavenger hunt!! What a wild idea! Excited to read more.

Update:

Since mod Jeanine deleted her account without a by-your-leave, all her posts vanished, and therefore her first post describing this challenge is gone. In the scramble of RL and other things, it wasn't until yesterday that I remembered this challenge and that an important part of it with the rules, etc. had vanished.

The challenge has been very quiet, but if anyone is still interested in continuing with it, I'll be tallying your progress. I'm indebted to both Wendy and Sharon for including the original list of "objects to scavenge" in their posts. Thanks, gals!

RULES
You cannot use a single bodice ripper for multiple finds. 1 bodice ripper per item.

You cannot use the same bodice ripper for the same find as someone else. But you CAN use the same bodice ripper for another item on the list if no one else has done so.

END DATE
Whoever gets all the items first, wins!

SCAVENGER LIST
-rape
-forced seduction
-oral sex
-anal sex
-kidnap
-sold into slavery
-forced into marriage
-three some
-permanent physical abuse - (scars or branding for example)
-whipping
-clothes literally torn off
-"light" physical abuse (i.e. slapping, hitting)
-heroine/hero near death
-same sex relations
-eunuchs
-voodoo/black magic/occult goings on
-heroine drugged
-drug use/addiction
-mixed racial relations
-priests behaving badly
-incest/almost incest/suspected - they (or someone else) thought it might be incest