![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the movie, Yvonne's bought by Clark and the story plays out well. I thought this would be good at first, as it reminded me in the beginning of an old Clark Gable/Yvonne DeCarlo movie, where a southern belle heiress is on the brink of inheriting the family estate when it's revealed that she's part black and she's sold in to slavery instead. Consensual sex, pseudo-consensual sex, perverse sex, rape, voodoo, violence: this is one big, albeit readable, pulpy mess. The racial politics are unbelievable, even by 1970s standards-and yet, sadly, despite its excesses, the terrible things described in this novel did happen to enslaved people and happened often. Fortunately, the author leaves the worst of it to the imagination. If it can be done to Lorinda, it's going to be done to her. Fate conspires to bring Lorinda low and thus begins a lurid bodice ripper that tries to figure out just how many ways it can degrade and abuse its heroine. The novel tells the alleged love story of Lorinda and Kirk, a Mississippi belle and a Maine (by way of Texas) riverboat gambler, whose destinies collide in the 1850s Gulf South. Clearly Smith was cashing in on the exploding market for historical romance. Smith, and the author's experience shows. A deeply, deeply problematic book, "Love's Wicked Ways" was written under a female pseudonym by the late science fiction and erotica writer George H. ![]()
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