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Deavors Plantation #2
Rafaella
They lived in a world of secret guilts.
Rafaella: at seventeen she had a beauty that could possess and destroy. No man was safe from her, not even her father.
Wyman: He would do anything to gain Rafaella's favor. His pursuit of love would lead to disaster.
Frannie: Rafaella's stepmother.
Lawton: He knew the secret of Rafaella's past, a secret his lust would never let him reveal.
Rafaella: at seventeen she had a beauty that could possess and destroy. No man was safe from her, not even her father.
Wyman: He would do anything to gain Rafaella's favor. His pursuit of love would lead to disaster.
Frannie: Rafaella's stepmother.
Lawton: He knew the secret of Rafaella's past, a secret his lust would never let him reveal.
422 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 1977
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April 2, 2023
DNF, pg 75.
I can’t take this crap anymore. It’s not the OTT content—although the continual sex is wearyingly repetitive in its nastiness—so much as the entire cast being utterly detestable examples of people you hope will die in a fire. Combine that with clumsy, dull prose that does nothing but march across the page in an endless string of thought bubbles & tedious exposition (assuming the characters have stopped banging each other long enough to do anything else)…nope. It’s not sexy, or even shocking—unless you count the whackadoo Deavors family surviving their inbred homicidal tendencies long enough to fill four volumes of abominable prose.
Goodbye forever to this series. 1.5 stars, rounded up only because Cellus survived the finale of Book 1. Hopefully he escapes this garbage & lives his remaining off-page years in peace.
I can’t take this crap anymore. It’s not the OTT content—although the continual sex is wearyingly repetitive in its nastiness—so much as the entire cast being utterly detestable examples of people you hope will die in a fire. Combine that with clumsy, dull prose that does nothing but march across the page in an endless string of thought bubbles & tedious exposition (assuming the characters have stopped banging each other long enough to do anything else)…nope. It’s not sexy, or even shocking—unless you count the whackadoo Deavors family surviving their inbred homicidal tendencies long enough to fill four volumes of abominable prose.
Goodbye forever to this series. 1.5 stars, rounded up only because Cellus survived the finale of Book 1. Hopefully he escapes this garbage & lives his remaining off-page years in peace.
October 5, 2018
2.5 stars. Plot-crammed, pot-boiling paperback plantation pornography gave me the vapors.
October 28, 2014
Gotta love sequels
Doesn't everyone love sequels? When we read a great book you want a sequel, because sometimes there are things left undone or maybe we just want the story to go on. This was the case with me. I was not disappointed, to say the least. Now that I have finished Rafaella I see there is book 3. yay! Can't wait to continue the saga. Great read...highly recommended.
Doesn't everyone love sequels? When we read a great book you want a sequel, because sometimes there are things left undone or maybe we just want the story to go on. This was the case with me. I was not disappointed, to say the least. Now that I have finished Rafaella I see there is book 3. yay! Can't wait to continue the saga. Great read...highly recommended.
August 16, 2018
Have you ever?
Is it wrong to hate a character in a book? I know in real life Jesus says we must not hate but oh how ugly my heart was for Rafaella. I have never disdained anybody real or fictional as I did her.
How ironic these people felt that somehow slaves were lower than them but they had morals of the most wretched of demons.
I honestly thought that the first book Plantations could not be topped wow was I wrong. I cannot wait to start book 3 of this series The Hellions even the title scares me to think what more cursed debauchery await the morally corrupt Deavors.
Is it wrong to hate a character in a book? I know in real life Jesus says we must not hate but oh how ugly my heart was for Rafaella. I have never disdained anybody real or fictional as I did her.
How ironic these people felt that somehow slaves were lower than them but they had morals of the most wretched of demons.
I honestly thought that the first book Plantations could not be topped wow was I wrong. I cannot wait to start book 3 of this series The Hellions even the title scares me to think what more cursed debauchery await the morally corrupt Deavors.
April 14, 2025
Trash with a capital "T" but amusing in some parts. Most of the characters are either dull or outright detestable. The author has some fun with minor characters in the beginning with the debauched Alain LeBeau and Lucinda Deavors but after the "Last Tango in Mississippi" kink scene is over there is nothing of interest. The incest angle is just disgusting. Rafaella herself is a laughably awful villain, a spoiled "B" who you can't wait to see get her ass kicked. Ridiculous and ugly to the end...
May 25, 2023
Ugh. Bleh. Don't bother.
I felt like the author put just enough history in it to get the book called historical fiction and used that genre title to lure in a group of readers. Then he used soft porn to keep estrogen high women reading. The trouble was he apparent apparently wasn't interested in using any kind of researched descriptions or details. Also, characters' conversion was stilted and forced.
I felt like the author put just enough history in it to get the book called historical fiction and used that genre title to lure in a group of readers. Then he used soft porn to keep estrogen high women reading. The trouble was he apparent apparently wasn't interested in using any kind of researched descriptions or details. Also, characters' conversion was stilted and forced.
June 30, 2022
The family saga from THE PLANTATION (1975) continues as Lawton encounters his distant cousin, the late teenager, exotically European, Rafaella. The family entwines again as Rafaella's father marries the widow of Lawton's evil dead uncle. A good story depicting the evils of slavery in Mississippi circa 1840.
December 6, 2019
I read this book when I was young and have been looking for it ever since. I finally found it and plowed through it in no time. Warning: If it were a movie it would be between R and X. However, it is a good book without or with all of that stuff. It was just ahead of it's time.
January 3, 2019
Finally
I waited reading through the whole book to finally get the satisfaction of that spoiled bitch getting what she deserved. Poor Lawton.
I waited reading through the whole book to finally get the satisfaction of that spoiled bitch getting what she deserved. Poor Lawton.
July 14, 2020
Oh so good
Will there be a part three? Raffles is a bonafide lunatic. She was really deranged. The incest was weird. I really enjoyed.
Will there be a part three? Raffles is a bonafide lunatic. She was really deranged. The incest was weird. I really enjoyed.
November 2, 2022
Book 1 was excellent. Book 2 has a good story line but there was too much of Rafaella's monologue I did not enjoy.
November 8, 2015
Sexually repetitious to the point of boring frequently.
This book is not as good as his first. He continually has some explicit sexual encounter between the characters every chapter or at least every other. If this is what it was like during that time it is no wonder the South lost the war, no one but the slaves did any work.
This book is not as good as his first. He continually has some explicit sexual encounter between the characters every chapter or at least every other. If this is what it was like during that time it is no wonder the South lost the war, no one but the slaves did any work.
April 15, 2016
Story of the. south
I started this series and was determined to finish them. The first book should have warned me off from the whole series. The love scenes were very graphic and there seemed to be a lot of interest in incest by this author. He certainly spent a lot of writing time on the subject of incest. I don't think these books represent the Southern History in any way.
I started this series and was determined to finish them. The first book should have warned me off from the whole series. The love scenes were very graphic and there seemed to be a lot of interest in incest by this author. He certainly spent a lot of writing time on the subject of incest. I don't think these books represent the Southern History in any way.
February 1, 2015
The second book of four. This one is about a demented cousin who plots to win the heart of Lawton; head of the "Columns" plantation. Better than the first book but still not up to a three. Maybe the next one....
November 4, 2015
Rafaella
Well written plot though at times dragging but always leaving the reader wanting more. Some of the storyline farfetched. I will be reading book three in the series out of sheer curiosity. Well edited, more so than most ebooks.
Well written plot though at times dragging but always leaving the reader wanting more. Some of the storyline farfetched. I will be reading book three in the series out of sheer curiosity. Well edited, more so than most ebooks.
February 7, 2016
Very good. Second in a series.
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