Bride of Pendorric

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Summary: Suspenseful
Review: "Bride of Pendorric" definately has similarities to DuMaurier's "Rebecca," but it has elements all its own. I enjoyed the twisting plot and the book's FABULOUS climax...you'll never guess it! It is truly reminisent of the gothic novel. The characters are actually quite complex in this story, something that I don't often see in romance novels. If you liked DuMaurier's "Rebecca" or any other Victoria Holt novel, there is a good chance that you will like this book. I couldn't put it down once I began to read it. It is definately worth a few hours of your time.

Rating:
Summary: Suspenseful
Review: "Bride of Pendorric" definately has similarities to DuMaurier's "Rebecca," but it has elements all its own. I enjoyed the twisting plot and the book's FABULOUS climax...you'll never guess it! It is truly reminisent of the gothic novel. The characters are actually quite complex in this story, something that I don't often see in romance novels. If you liked DuMaurier's "Rebecca" or any other Victoria Holt novel, there is a good chance that you will like this book. I couldn't put it down once I began to read it. It is definately worth a few hours of your time.

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Summary: The Most Suspenseful Victoria Holt Novel!
Review: Favel has lived her whole life on an isolated island with her artist father. She falls in love with a man from Cornwall, marries him, and goes to Cornwall with him. Once there, at his estate of Pendorric, she learns of the previous wives of the owners: they have died mysteriously at a young age. She fears, with good reason, she is the next.

This one is different from the other Holt novels for two reasons. The first is that it takes place I modern times, and second, it mentions locations from other Holt novels. This one is probably the most thrilling and suspenseful of all of Victoria Holt's!

Rating:
Summary: The Most Suspenseful Victoria Holt Novel!
Review: Favel has lived her whole life on an isolated island with her artist father. She falls in love with a man from Cornwall, marries him, and goes to Cornwall with him. Once there, at his estate of Pendorric, she learns of the previous wives of the owners: they have died mysteriously at a young age. She fears, with good reason, she is the next.

This one is different from the other Holt novels for two reasons. The first is that it takes place I modern times, and second, it mentions locations from other Holt novels. This one is probably the most thrilling and suspenseful of all of Victoria Holt's!

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Summary: a mixture of romance and adventure
Review: her hole life she lives on a island one day a strange hansome man apers and marries her and takes her bake to his castle after she meets her grandfather she only ferse 2 things who is trying to hill her and did her husband marrie her for the money or for love?

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Summary: Similar to Rebecca? Sure, but you can't beat the climax!
Review: I have been a fan of Victoria Holt on and off for years, starting when I was about 13 and continuing to this day (I am 25). They are very easy reading, so if you are expecting Faulkner, you might want to look elsewhere. But if you are in the mood for a good suspenseful book with romantic tendencies, Victora Holt is the perfect author.

Bride of Pendorric is a great example of Holt's work. A young, orphaned heroine marries into a family with a mysterious past, and she soon comes to believe that someone is trying to get rid of her. The similarities to "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier are very striking, right down to Mrs. Danvers at the window convincing the heroine to jump vs. Nurse Grey at the window convincing Favel that she is about to be pushed. (I should note that I am not sure which novel came first). However, the eventual explanation is great, and a real shocker, even if you think you know who did it!

If you are in the mood for a great gothic novel, then "Bride of Pendorric" is a good place to start.

Rating:
Summary: Similar to Rebecca? Sure, but you can't beat the climax!
Review: I have been a fan of Victoria Holt on and off for years, starting when I was about 13 and continuing to this day (I am 25). They are very easy reading, so if you are expecting Faulkner, you might want to look elsewhere. But if you are in the mood for a good suspenseful book with romantic tendencies, Victora Holt is the perfect author.

Bride of Pendorric is a great example of Holt's work. A young, orphaned heroine marries into a family with a mysterious past, and she soon comes to believe that someone is trying to get rid of her. The similarities to "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier are very striking, right down to Mrs. Danvers at the window convincing the heroine to jump vs. Nurse Grey at the window convincing Favel that she is about to be pushed. (I should note that I am not sure which novel came first). However, the eventual explanation is great, and a real shocker, even if you think you know who did it!

If you are in the mood for a great gothic novel, then "Bride of Pendorric" is a good place to start.

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Summary: Strikingly Similar to...........
Review: the novel Rebecca, by Daphne Du Maurier. A young, relatively inexperienced English girl (displaced and orphaned in both situations) falls for a "gentleman" a man of the gentry with a reknowned home that exceeds his own image (Max de Winter of Manderly and Roc Pendorric of Pendorric). In both books, the naive young heroine falls under the shadow of a previous bride (the first Mrs. de Winter and Barbarina Pendorric). Both are ghost stories in their own rights and both involve exceptionally dedicated servants (though more so in one book than the other). Indeed, both are psychological dramas, where the young heroine fancies herself haunted and in danger. Both books also end in the same fashion, with a fire.

Despite the similarities, The Bride of Pendorric does have some little twists (none of which should be mentioned since they enhance the story).

Therefore, if you have had the honor of reading Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, you may well indeed enjoy Victoria Holt's The Bride of Pendorric.