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Summary: MONTGOMERY FAMILY- i love all their stories !!!!
Review: I love the Velvet Series books,oh my god it is nothing i have read before! I think this series is the best from Jude Deveraux!!! Ugh,i love it,love it,love it !!!Gavin was just so blinded with his love for Alice at the begining,until he meets Judith... I love the story,alot of stuff going on from begining to end... the sad part was when she lost the baby,i think i cried abit,he he he... And i like it how all the ladies have something unique and special about them...why can't love be like that,like in the old days !!!
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Summary: Just Marvellous
Review: This was my second I read from Jude Deveraux, and this one got me totally hooked, not only does she not let us down for the beautiful Montgomery men, but she gave us a true hero in this story, Judith. Without her Gavin would of been lost. I totally agree he was a selfish pig of a man, but typical man for that century, where men rule and do what they please, and Mrs Deveraux showed us the also ugly side of some of those times, such as arrange marriages and rape, but what made this story beautiful is Gavin HAS a consience and he did feel bad for what he did and not always his best judgement he tried his best.
This is the begin of 4 amazing books of the Velvet series, Gavin being the eldest brother of 4 (My favorite is still Rayne though!)
Enjoy this book as much as i did
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Summary: Promise me I won't have to read it again.
Review: Gavin Montgomery is deeply in love with Alice, a young, impoverished lady from a neighboring estate. Alice's father rejects Gavin as a suitor and then promises her to another man. Devastated that his lover will be marrying someone else, Gavin succumbs to pressure from his family and decides to marry an heiress whose lands border his to the north.
Forced by her brute of a father to accept a betrothal to Gavin, Judith Revedoune is distraught over her fate. Her mother raised her to be a nun and she'd had no idea she would ever marry. Things look up, though, when she meets Gavin at their wedding ceremony. They seem to have instant chemistry and it seems that maybe marriage won't be so bad. Until, that is, she overhears Gavin swearing his undying love to Alice in the Garden during their wedding feast.
Jude Deveraux's books are really hit-and-miss for me. I've liked some of them, and I've really hated others. It had been quite a while since I read anything of hers, but I followed a listmania list and ended up buying a few titles in the "Velvet" series and was not impressed with any of them.
Judith is a so-so heroine. She's got the barebones of a heroine you'd enjoy, but she does some really dumb things and then rants about how she doesn't have to answer to anyone and then she readily participates in the "big misunderstanding" by acting like a spoiled child. Sure she was independent, and all of those tough heroine things, but the way her independent spirit was written made her seem bratty and petulant.
Gavin was an unintelligent jerk. He was one of those wholly selfish beings who is incapable of seeing the world from anything but his own point of view. At first when the author introduced this as a trait of one of the psychotic villains I thought she would use it to teach Gavin a lesson about himself, but self-awareness was a little too much to hope for, from the author and the hero.
If life isn't going Gavin's way, he lashes out at anyone around him. The new wife doesn't accept him just the way he is, so he smacks her one. She doesn't want to sleep with him? He'll just rape her. And so it goes, on and on. She saves him from the villain, but he'll believe everything the villain says about the naughty things she's done. Don't be mislead, he's not an alpha hero, he's a megalomaniacal tyrant. I hate him, he has no redeeming qualities.
"The Velvet Promise" is a velvet mess. The "other woman" is one of the most over-the-top slut/whore characters I've ever seen, but this isn't really a campy story, so she just doesn't fit here. We're supposed to hate one and love the other, but I find both of Judith's parents unlikable: her father for being a neanderthal, and her mother for being a reactionary shrew. There's just no one to like in this book, because the villains are as one dimensionally awful as the author wants them to be and the heroes are so self-centered and stupid that you almost wish everyone would just die of the plague.
The story is cohesive and almost interesting, but the characters suck. I give this book one star. Don't waste your money or your time.
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Summary: Horrible writing
Review: I've given Jude Deveraux many chances and have come up disappointed and dissatisfied each time. I read Remembrance, The Duchess, and A Knight in Shining Armor before picking up Velvet Promise at the bookstore. And after reading it, I've come to the conclusion that I simply do not like Jude Deveraux. Velvet Promise contains all the elements I've detested in her the previous works I've read, leading me to the conclusion that each Jude Deveraux book I read was not simply "not her best," but a trend in her writing. Her writing style is childish, and the simplistic sentence structures are boring and do not lend to the sense of passion and feeling a romance novel should emit. I couldn't get into the characters at all - Gavin was childish, as was Judith, and Alice, well, she was too over-the-top as the jealous ex-girlfriend villan. The story was so uninteresting that I almost didn't finish it because I found myself not caring one bit what happened to any of the characters. This is the end of my trial of Jude Deveraux. If you want to read some fast paced, fun, interesting romances with great dialogue and intreging characters and storylines, try anything by Judith McNaught, Julia Quinn, Suzanne Enoch, or Stephanie Laurens.
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Summary: My absolute favorite series!
Review: I absolutly loved this series. All the characters were so vibrant and realistic it was hard not to fall in love with them. No one wants to read about a character who is boring and plain, this is why I love Jude Deveraux. She never lets you down.
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Summary: Best love
Review: I object to any novel in which rape is seen as an acceptable way for a man to bring his wife into line. Ditto smashing her in the mouth, and sadomasochistic kinky sexual practices. there is way too much hot andheav stuff between Gavin the supposed hero and Alice, his mistress who has married another because she is ambitious. her husband is a savage who resorts to the abovementioned practices, and all the other women in the castle are like something from a Drcula film as they all satisfy their unnatural desires.
Judith is too good to be true in some cases and a total fishwife in others, and Gavin has got to be the dumbest man alive not to see through Alice. For 2 whole years, no less. The ending is melodrama at its worst, and the miscarriage Judith suffers because of her is just as glossed over as the appalling violence toward women in the rest of the book. Their constant jealousy and bickering makes the book a chore to read after the first 50 pages. I kept hoping it would get better but it didn't. And of course evil Alice is left alive for revenge at the end of the book. I wish she had sapred us a sequel but she didn't.
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