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Summary: Wrong Title for this Book!
Review: I wish we could give 1/2 stars. I am torn between a 3 & 4 star! I enjoyed the reading- and I liked the main characters. I would go sailing with Anthony any day and apparently it was time for Olivia to get her head out of the books. It took Anthony to do it (gosh, the beach sign is GREAT!). There was the romance and there is a good story line but something was missing for me. I do wish it had not ended so quickly. I agree with other reviews saying that I still had serious questions to be answered at the end of the story. And I guess I just feel more satisfied when at the end there is a marriage- I wasn't satisfied with her being his doxy. The relationship with the 3 friends was great to me. Go on and read it and enjoy it, but JF has other really great books out there that pass this one up! Like THE WIDOW'S KISS.
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Summary: Dull and Disappointing
Review: I would not recommend this book to anyone who enjoyed the first two titles in this trilogy. Whatever possessed this otherwise-talented author to write a romance novel with a theme of childhood sexual abuse? Just as bad, the pace of the book is so slow that I skipped to the end and then backtracked. I'm recycling my copy.
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Summary: I Enjoyed This Book - Can't Understand Other Reviews
Review: I've read all three of the books in this "Brides" series, and while I will admit that this book is the weakest of the three, I really can't agree with all the criticism of it. It has a lot of romance and excitement, and Olivia turns out to be the least conventional of the three. She is a great scholar, who by the misfortune of slipping off a cliff, finds herself on a pirate ship and in love with the captain. This book isn't as light as the others, as Ms. Feather attempts to handle a couple of very serious problems, but I believe the romance between Anthony and Olivia is believable (as romance books, not real life, goes!) And the ending (while not your conventional romance book ending) is quite believable and I felt satisfied with it. I would recommend all three of these books - the heroines are very smart, strong-willed women, who have a great friendship, and each finds the love of her life in a very different way. They are always there to support each other along the way. I would be interested in some more people reading these books and hopefully seeing some more positive reviews!
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Summary: I Enjoyed This Book - Can't Understand Other Reviews
Review: I've read all three of the books in this "Brides" series, and while I will admit that this book is the weakest of the three, I really can't agree with all the criticism of it. It has a lot of romance and excitement, and Olivia turns out to be the least conventional of the three. She is a great scholar, who by the misfortune of slipping off a cliff, finds herself on a pirate ship and in love with the captain. This book isn't as light as the others, as Ms. Feather attempts to handle a couple of very serious problems, but I believe the romance between Anthony and Olivia is believable (as romance books, not real life, goes!) And the ending (while not your conventional romance book ending) is quite believable and I felt satisfied with it. I would recommend all three of these books - the heroines are very smart, strong-willed women, who have a great friendship, and each finds the love of her life in a very different way. They are always there to support each other along the way. I would be interested in some more people reading these books and hopefully seeing some more positive reviews!
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Summary: Unconventional, Exciting and Unexpected
Review: Jane Feather has provided fans of the historical romance genre with an unconventional yet exciting new saga. Take a ship full of exciting, "honorable" pirates, add one dashing captain and of course, a very lovely maiden and what do you find? A very unexpected ending! For the historical romance connoisseur looking for "something different," this is it.
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Summary: Sad and Disappointed
Review: Jane! Jane!Jane! What were you thinking? I loved your first two books of the bride trilogy but was very disappointed in The Least Likely Bride! It was almost as if the wind was taken out of your sails in the end. You took a very sensitive subject and did a great job conveying how it totally effected Olivia's life, and relationships. However, I felt that Olivia never overcame this tragic event in her life, and settled instead of grabbing for the brass ring!Please make a part II !
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Summary: Where's the Romance?
Review: Lady Olivia Granville, a most avid scholar, is reading while walking along the cliff's edge, when her footing gives way and she falls down the side. She's rescued by Anthony, a handsome Royalist pirate, whose political agenda is in direct conflict with that of her noble father. She wakes on his pirate ship, The Wind Dancer, where Anthony has used his knowledge of healing to care for her wounds. As a child, Olivia and her two closest friends made a pact never to marry. Anthony and Olivia's relationship quickly turns intimate, but she still has no desire to marry, and Anthony doesn't live within the law. So how will these two ever get together? The answer to that question is surprising, and one of the reasons I was less than thrilled with this book. The ending was not typical of a romance novel, and while original, it lacked the, "they're so much in love, and will live happily ever after feel" I like to end up with when I finish a book. This novel also seemed to be more about sex than romance and love. In the beginning of the story, she regained consciousness and realized she was naked in his bed, and he had no problem convincing her to have casual sex with him?! With a man she didn't even know? The writing is good, but I have definite issues with the content of the story. The author does incorporate some heavier issues with Olivia's suppressed memories of child sexual abuse. But I think that only added to the dysfunctional feel of their casual sex relationship, which was supposed to pass for love. And then of course, the dysfunction continues with the ending. This is apparently the third book in a trilogy, but this was the first novel for me to read by this author. And since this, I haven't read anything else by her, for fear this book is typical of her work. I wouldn't recommend reading this, but if you're a Feather fan, you may feel differently.
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Summary: The least credible romance
Review: Olivia, the daughter of Cato Granville, is woolgathering one day, steps off the edge of a cliff and is knocked unconscious. She is rescued by a pirate ship and, once she recovers, the pirate captain climbs into her bed and just casually has sex with her. Riiiight. Okay. And she decides that she wants to see him again?! So then once he has her taken home, she sneaks out of her father's house to meet him again. And even when she realises that he has to be part of a plot to work against her father's political agenda, she stays quiet and doesn't tell Cato what's going on. Even though she knows that Anthony is a pirate. I'm sorry; I just didn't see any romance in here, and I didn't even like the 'hero'. And as for the ending, what kind of thing is that? I kept waiting for him to renounce his lawless life, but no; he continues to be a pirate, and Cato lets Phoebe go to him instead of having him handed over to the police and hanged. And they don't even get married! Terrible.
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Summary: ABSOLUTELY AWFUL!!!!!
Review: The beginning starts out fine but then it becomes absolutely unbelievable to the point of sure cheesiness and tackiness! Especially that the main character was raped by the "hero" (the scene was made as if rape was a normal everyday thing.)of the book doesn't make this book a fine choice to read. Thank God I got this from the library. NOT WORTH THE MONEY!!!!
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Summary: A Fitting Finish to the Bride Trilogy
Review: The last of three independent young ladies who vow never to marry, Lady Olivia Granville has become the scholar of her dreams. A fall off a cliff changes her life and exposes a side of herself she could not have imagined. A delightful tale of a young women following her heart, it is unlike its' predecessors by allowing the very prim Lady Olivia to escape convention. The characters are as usual for Ms. Feather, well developed and feel like old friends. don't cheat yourself out of a great read!
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