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Summary: Charming read!
Review: The book started out slowly and I thought I would put it aside and forget it. But then it took a surprising turn and I found I couldn't put it down! I loved how Cato and Phoebe developed as characters and people, and how they grew as a couple. In fact, I had borrowed the book from someone to read, then reread it again a month later. Definitely enjoyable!
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Summary: Slow Moving
Review: This book showed up on my recommended reading list. Very slow moving hard to finish book
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Summary: Real Love Story That Overcomes All Odds
Review: This book was an excellent follow up to "The Hostage Bride" The relationship between Cato and the dowdy Phoebe was one that keeps the reader enthralled because it isn't the steriotypical love story, Phoebe isn't perfect-far from it actually- but her warm heart and determination allow her to enter Cato's heart. At first it seems as if there is no way that Cato could truly care for the "ragged robin" but this story shows how feelings can be changed when met with fate. Phoebe's refuses to be the submissive bride to the overpowering Cato, she follows her heart no matter how it may defy her husband, and nobody has challenged him before, especially not a woman. Not only is the romance captivating but the historical aspect of the civil war in the 1600's thickens the plot: war, love, lust, with the struggle to defeat or not be taken down by manipulating evil Brian Morse...all intertwined into a literary masterpiece, I can't wait to read about Olivia in the third book of Jane Feather's Brides trilogy!
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Summary: Real Love Story That Overcomes All Odds
Review: This book was an excellent follow up to "The Hostage Bride" The relationship between Cato and the dowdy Phoebe was one that keeps the reader enthralled because it isn't the steriotypical love story, Phoebe isn't perfect-far from it actually- but her warm heart and determination allow her to enter Cato's heart. At first it seems as if there is no way that Cato could truly care for the "ragged robin" but this story shows how feelings can be changed when met with fate. Phoebe's refuses to be the submissive bride to the overpowering Cato, she follows her heart no matter how it may defy her husband, and nobody has challenged him before, especially not a woman. Not only is the romance captivating but the historical aspect of the civil war in the 1600's thickens the plot: war, love, lust, with the struggle to defeat or not be taken down by manipulating evil Brian Morse...all intertwined into a literary masterpiece, I can't wait to read about Olivia in the third book of Jane Feather's Brides trilogy!
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Summary: This book was wonderful!
Review: This book was wonderful! I really enjoyed the story. I like how the character of Phoebe wasn't another skinny herione. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who loves romance and a little mystrey.
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Summary: Boring
Review: This is the last book I will ever attempt to read from Jane Feather's collection. I found Phoebe and Cato very boring. I should have known it would be after trying to read "The Emerald Swan," which was just as boring.
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Summary: I liked the cover.
Review: This was rather different than the stories I've been reading lately- the heroine is not some slim, tall, long-legged waif. She's round, stubby, and completely clumsy. Also, there was no magical wedding night. I liked that touch of reality. It was annoying to constantly see people, including Lord Granville, telling Phoebe that this didn't siut her or that didn't suit her. She was treated as if she had the common sense of a bag of flour. it was, however, amusing towards the end, when she sees through Brian's decieving nature. I would have liked Ms. Feather to explain the incident which humbled Brian, involving olivia and Portia, but I suppose I'll have to read the HOSTAGE BRIDE to find out. Oh well.
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Summary: Brilliant Book
Review: This was the first book I ever read by Jane Feather and it hooked me from the word go. I loved watching the relationship between the strong-willed Cato and the always ragged Phoebe grow as the story progressed. It was great seeing Phoebe try to shake free of the stereotypical mold of a what a wife should be, and try to make her marriage to Cato an equal partnership.I enjoyed seeing Phoebe deciding that she wanted a proper marriage to Cato, with all the intimacies that included, and so the love scenes were brilliant. Poor Cato didn't quite know how to take the fact that Phoebe was supposedly barren, and some of the little conversations he has with himself about it are rather funny. I would reccommend this book to any romance reader, or anyone wanting to venture into the world of romance.
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Summary: Phoebe is wonderful! Can't wait to get Olivia's story
Review: Well, done, enjoyed meating up with Portia and her family again. Cna't wait to get the last one.
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Summary: 0 if I could
Review: Women readers must have such low expectation to give this story a 5. While everyone has different likes and dislikes, this is no 5 star story. Why do authors think that spunky women, who refuse to listen to reason, are "romanctic"? Exciting? No, they are just senseless. Phoebe, a ragged lady with no graces, is so painfully dowdy that the author leaves no room for growth in her character. She refuses to listten to anybody and that is a very negative characteristic. She put her husband in grave danger, plus her step-daughter. And it is foolish for any reader to think that Cato, our dashing hero, would look upon Phoebe's antics as endearing. He is a military man and he would let her come along on secret military dealings? Because he does when he finds her hiding more than one. Perhaps the author wanted to use those moments to point out how flexible Cato. But he should not have been. Secret government work is just that and for Phobe to complain that she was his wife and entitled to know all was stuipd. Military secrets are just that - secrets. She was a vastly unappealing charater and not just physically. She behaved with zero ability as the lady of the manor and in that time frame, that would have been paramount. Poor reading and poor story.
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