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Summary: The best of the trio
Review: I have read all three of the trilogy, and the Accidental Bride is the best. The characters are great. Whenever Cato and Phoebe were in the same room together I could hardly keep from laughiing out loud at the scrapes she caused them. Sweet story about an unlikely heroine and the man whose heart she steals.
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Summary: Not as good as her others
Review: I have really enjoyed Jane Feather's other books. This time I just couldn't believe the two main characters made a love match. Phoebe was just too unkept to be a "lady" of the times. I didn't really see Cato thaw until all the sudden at the very end (except in the bedroom). I still have hopes for the last in the bride trilogy.
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Summary: very funny and very life like
Review: i like this book because it was funny, and i like that fact that phobe was human she wasn't perfect and all that pretty, but cato loved her because of it. if you want a good love story, this is one book i suggest!
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Summary: Happy accident
Review: I love Jane Feather. I like this book. I love Pheobe. She is cute. My one complaint is that it should have been longer. That way we could have been with the characters more and watched them learn about each other. But it is still good. Not as dark of some of her others. I really love the fact that Phoebe is not a carbon copy heroine. She really has a brain of her own.
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Summary: Very Good!!
Review: I love Phoebe in THE ACCIDENTAL BRIDE because she could ruffle up her husband, Cato with her actions and remarks. Cato is like an airhead to anything besides war and it seems that only Phoebe could snap him back to the real world. Another thing I love about Phoebe is that she chose to change herself when she didn't get the attention from Cato. Her older sister, Diana is practically a goddess and Phoebe is the exact opposite (but Phoebe is pretty). Diana fits into this scheme of things because Diana was first married to Cato but she died and now Phoebe takes her place. Phoebe doesn't have the grace or the clothes to attract attention to herself so she asks a friend, Portia to help her. (Portia is from the first "Brides" triology book, THE HOSTAGE BRIDE) And Portia does help Phoebe! After a shopping trip and a few good words of advice, Phoebe attracts the attention of her husband and more! Their "bedroom activity" is very sensual. Before Phoebe's transformation, their scene would be quick because Cato would hurry up and finish his business. But after Phoebe's transformation, she became more creative in bed because she always felt that making love wasn't supposed to be so cold. And the pages do heat up! I had no regret reading THE ACCIDENTAL BRIDE and I recommend it to those who enjoy a good strong romance of a woman with a loving and brave heart. I can't wait to read the next book in the triology, which is about Olivia, a shy and awkward woman in THE LEAST LIKELY BRIDE. ^_^ ~ Izzy
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Summary: A HARD TO READ BOOK
Review: I nevr start a book without finishing it, butthis on ewas dificult for me. . .It was fairly boring, unlike other I have read by this author. If you are looking for other romance novels that truly touch your heart, you might try, Stolen Moments by Barbara Jeanne Fisher. I intended to give this book a quick read, but I got so caught up in the story that I couldn't put the book down. From the very beginning, I was fully caught up in the heart-wrenching account of Julie Hunter's battle with lupus and her growing love for Don Lipton. This love, in the face of Julie's impending death, makes for a story that covers the range of human emotions. The touches of humor are great, too, they add some nice contrast and lighten things a bit when emotions are running high. I've never read a book more deserving of being published. It has rare depth. Julie's story will remind your readers that life and love are precious and not to be taken for granted. It has had an impact on me, and for that I'm grateful. "Stolen Moments " which is reminiscent of "Love Story" is written with so much sensitivity that it made me want to cry. Like"Love Story" it is about a dying woman who has found true love. It is the love story of the nineties." It is a spellbinder. One I got reading I could hardly put it down. what terrific writing, Barbara has an exceptional gift!
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Summary: A fun summer read!
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed this story of unexpected love, treachery and interesting situations involving a very headstong heroine. This was the first book of Feather's that I have read--I wanted something fun to read during our family vacation and this book certainly fit the bill. Will be reading more of her books in the future and can't wait for the next in this trilogy to be released!
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Summary: The Accidental Bride
Review: Is it my imagination, or does this plot sound just like one of Georgette Heyer's books?
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Summary: Best of the trilogy - but still not really credible
Review: Phoebe, the awkward one and sister of Diana, the late Marchioness of Granville, is ordered by her father to marry her widowed brother-in-law, Cato. Cato is also the father of her best friend Olivia, and is almost old enough to be her own father. He's distant, cold, very proper and only interested in politics and the war. And yet one day she looks at him and falls in love. So then she has to try to make him fall in love with her - which isn't easy, since she's overweight and awkward and informal and everything, it seems, which he disapproves of. She gets Olivia into trouble and creates chaos in his ordered manor home. And she has neither the talent nor the wish to take over housekeeping. None of her clothes suit her - which is hardly surprising, since they were all made for Diana, who was a completely different shape to her. She's not even, he thinks, all that good in bed, and she doesn't seem to be showing any signs of becoming pregnant. Although I enjoyed this and found some parts of it humorous, I really had problems with the idea of Cato as a husband. In the first book he was very distant and cold and not at all hero-like. And, of course, a man in his mid-thirties, he is married here to a seventeen-year-old and a friend of his own daughter's. Doesn't he feel the slightest awkwardness at the thought of taking Phoebe to bed? And as for Phoebe, I do find it hard to understand why she continued to love Cato, who for most of the book showed no interest in her beyond criticising her. I'm not even sure that he would have found her clumsiness endearing, as he eventually did. So, although on a superficial level I found this book entertaining, I really didn't find it at all credible.
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Summary: THE ACCIDENTAL BRIDE
Review: THE ACCIDENTAL BRIDE is the second in the "Bride" trilogy by Jane Feather, following THE HOSTAGE BRIDE and before THE LEAST LIKELY BRIDE. This is the story of Phoebe, one of three friends who vow together to always remain friends, and to never get married. Phoebe is the poetic and honorable, yet disheveled sister to Diana, wife of Cato, Marquis of Granville. When Diana dies, after several months, Phoebe's father and Cato decide that Phoebe and Cato should marry so she can provide the much-needed heirs, and so that loyalties will stay within the family. Against Phoebe's objections, she is forced into a passionless marriage. But somewhere along the line, she falls in love with her huband's good side, and decides to make the marriage work. All of her methods are unorthodox; but finally, Cato starts to see that she can be much more than just a seed receptable. THE ACCIDENTAL BRIDE is a story of the human spirit, its determination, devotion and acceptance.
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