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The Pleasure Slave | 
 enlarge | Author: Gena Showalter
Publisher: HQN Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 51021
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.5 x 4.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 0373770324
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780373770328
ASIN: 0373770324
Publication Date: February 1, 2005
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Book Description
When Santa Fe antique dealer Julie Anderson was curiously drawn to purchase a battered jewelry box, she never expected it to contain her own personal love slave. Especially not tall, dark and sinfully handsome Tristan-a man hard to resist, and determined to fulfill her every desire. Though Tristan was a rogue of the battlefield and the boudoir, making love with Julia was like nothing he'd ever known. Yet revealing his true heart would break the centuries-old spell and separate them forever. And Tristan would do anything to go on loving Julia. . .even remain a slave through all eternity. . .
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 My first Gena read June 22, 2008
This was the first book i read by the great storyteller Gena Showalter. I rented it out at the library a few years ago, and have been a fan ever since. It opened up a new world to me in the Romance Genre. I do plan to purchase it soon to add to my collection. You'll love it to.
 Pleasure Slave was great! January 28, 2008
This is the second book I read by Gena Showalter and it too was just as good at The Stone Prince.
In this story a young woman, Julie, purchases a small trinket box from a flea market only to find out that it's sort of like a genie in a bottle. Inside is Tristan, a pleasure slave, cursed to spend eternity to please women. Their wish is his command. The only way to free himself is to fall in love with a woman.
Julie does fall in love with Tristan and he too falls in love with her, yet he denies it until he finally comes to his senses.
This story was really funny. Gena Showalter does a great job with placing the main male character in the unfamiliar world and making them act strange and barbaric, i.e. smashing telephones and answering machines.
9/10 - it was a bit too much like the first novel.
I just started reading Heart of the Dragon by Gena and it's great so far! Loving it.
P.S. - All three of these titles I purchased in the Kindle Bundle. Great buy at $9.99 for all three titles.
A Good Read ! ! December 22, 2007
This was light, with alot of Humor, and a few HOTTT scenes...I do think it had potential to be better but it was still a very nice book. I read it in 3 sittings. I also enjoyed catching up a little with the people from Stone Prince wich was a GREAT read :)
Showalter tends to rock my world September 1, 2007
Yeah, the storyline is stale (Sherrilyn Kenyon did it a bit better) but Ms. Showalter did an amazing job of making me forget once I had the book in my hands that this was not an original. Some moments were true laugh-out-loud funny. I dub this book extended foreplay. Read it and you'll be fanning yourself in no time.
 Had possibilities but would be better as a short story February 4, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Gena Showalter's book is one of those books you read where you think "this is an opportunity missed". The basic premise, that a warrior has been trapped in a box and has to obey the commands of the woman that owns the box, which ends up being passed to many different people over more than a millennium, has quite a lot of possibilities. What might this warrior Tristan have learned from different cultures over this time, especially when we discover that he's actually from another planet? What does he think when ending up in the possession of the owner of an antiques shop in small-town America? How does he cope with shopping in the mall, working in the shop, communicating with other 20th century Americans?
Sadly all these opportunities for interest weren't realised. Instead most of the interaction between Julia Anderson, the rather average woman, and the amazingly dishy Tristan, were about love and seduction. Now his job is technically a pleasure slave so we know that he's probably reasonably good at this, but I felt that the book was hinting that Julia saw him differently and was trying to treat him as a human being rather than a slave. This didn't really come across very well to me, though. And he fell in love with her surprisingly quickly. There was also the incongruity of him supposedly having to agree to her every wish but he actually stood his ground against her a number of times - I wasn't entirely sure how this worked with the Curse he was under to obey the owner of the box.
There are some amusing moments (he seemed to like conquering telephones) and I liked the heroine's ordinariness but somehow there wasn't enough meat to this story and I felt myself wanting to skim some passages to get to more action. The plot was pretty thin and the characterisation rather wooden. This would have made a pretty decent short story but it didn't have enough oomph in it to keep me glued for a full length novel.
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