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Summary: A truly great read!
Review: Despite the fact that the seven Randolph brother's were emotionally abused as children by their handsome yet cruel father, they grow up into good and strong men. Yet their damaged inner child makes him feel incapable of loving or worthy of being loved.Jeff Randolph, bright and sensitive, believed strongly in the cause of the southern states and just as strongly that war was not the way to resolve the problem. His father taunts him for being a coward and threatens to kill him himself if he doesn't fight. Jeff does the only thing he can do and follows his older brother George into the conflict. In doing so he loses his left arm and spends the rest of his time in a yankee prison camp. Returning home, Jeff already riddled with feelings of inadequacy, uses his disability to keep other people from getting close. He despises Yankees and his only dream is to return to the family home in Virginia and the gentle life he once knew. And of course a gentle southern belle to go with it. Jeff finds his place as the family banker. He sees it as a means to obtain his dream. Family obligation lands him in the middle of a quarantine at his nieces school. There he finds the most irritating Yankee woman who not only sees beyond his disability but finds something in him to love as well. Through his insecurity he drives her away and in doing so realizes he can't live without her. When tragedies strike he comes through for both his family and his woman. Violets unconditional love and his own courage opens his heart to love of himself, his lady, and his family, dispelling his father's legacy forever.
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Summary: The Best - So Far!
Review: I have just finished reading VIOLET. Its a great novel, especially when read following the earlier BRIDES books. The premise is unique which adds to the enjoyment of the story line. I am now starting LILY and on completion of LILY will miss the Randolph family enormously.
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Summary: The Best - So Far!
Review: I have just finished reading VIOLET. Its a great novel, especially when read following the earlier BRIDES books. The premise is unique which adds to the enjoyment of the story line. I am now starting LILY and on completion of LILY will miss the Randolph family enormously.
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Summary: This is a "Gotta have" !
Review: I have read all of the "Seven Brides" and all are great...But Violet has been my favorite. It made me laugh (having Jeff up in the attic of the girls school because he was to impatient to read the quartine signs is worth the price of the book), made me want to cry because Jeff was so emotionally screwed up from his fathers abuse and the war. I just loved how Violet could just slip in past all of Jeffs defences and find a nice snug place in his heart against his will...:) If you haven't read the "Seven Brides" do so in order and this story will be all the better.
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Summary: This is a "Gotta have" !
Review: I have read all of the "Seven Brides" and all are great...But Violet has been my favorite. It made me laugh (having Jeff up in the attic of the girls school because he was to impatient to read the quartine signs is worth the price of the book), made me want to cry because Jeff was so emotionally screwed up from his fathers abuse and the war. I just loved how Violet could just slip in past all of Jeffs defences and find a nice snug place in his heart against his will...:) If you haven't read the "Seven Brides" do so in order and this story will be all the better.
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Summary: The best
Review: I have read all the Seven Bride books when they were first released. I continue to this day go back and reread them. Violet was my favorite of them all. I fell in love with Jeff from the begining. I could not wait for him to find his true love and I am so happy that he fell for a Yankee. It did serve him right. Jeff and Violet were both injured souls who really needed each other. They fought their attraction but knew it was hopeless. You have to read this book even if you haven't read the others. It explains so much of emotional suffering and the happiness that can be discovered when you are not looking for it. I wish the Ms. Greenwood would contiue with the Randolphs with the next generation. It would be interesting to see what happens to the twins and the other children of these men.
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Summary: the seven brides (VIOLET)
Review: Jefferson definitely has an attitude problem that is far more serious than his physical handicap. I loved the part where he was quarantined in the girls school. I think as in all of these the author puts you in the same time and space as the characters that he is writing about. And when the Randolph Clan gathers, something is going to happen. Just don't read the series out of sequence or you will miss something.
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Summary: Everyone in this series a winner.
Review: Jefferson definitely has an attitude problem that is far more serious than his physical handicap. I loved the part where he was quarantined in the girls school. I think as in all of these the author puts you in the same time and space as the characters that he is writing about. And when the Randolph Clan gathers, something is going to happen. Just don't read the series out of sequence or you will miss something.
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Summary: TERRIBLY DISAPPOINTING.
Review: LG IS A WONDERFUL AUTHOR AND I HAVE ENJOYED MANY OF HER BOOKS. I WAS EXCITED TO FIND THIS ONE SINCE IT WAS SO HIGHLY RATED AND WAS NOTED TO BE THE "BEST" OF THE BRIDE SERIES. WELL INTO THE BOOK I WAS STILL WAITING FOR IT TO GET GOOD. THE FIRST 300+ PAGES ARE JUST SO MUCH BLAH, BLAH, BLAH. JEFF'S FEELING SORRY FOR HIMSELF AND BEING MISERABLE TO EVERYONE GOT PRETTY TEDIOUS. FINALLY ABOUT PAGE 360 IT STARTED TO PICK UP AND IT WAS ENJOYABLE FROM THERE TO THE END (PAGE 460).....CERTAINLY NOT A PAGE TURNER OR KEEPER.
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Summary: the seven brides (VIOLET)
Review: VIOLET WAS GREAT.... I HOPE THAT EVERYONE WHO SEE'S THIS WILL GO AND GET HER.. I LOVED ALL THE BOOKS IN THE (SEVEN BRIDES) VIOLET, WELL SHE SHOWED YOU HOW TO LOOK PAST THE OUT SIDE OF A PERSON AND REALLY LOOK ON THE IN SIDE... SHE GAVE OF HER SELF WITH OUT ASKING ANYTHING IN RETUREN... I WICH I COULD BE MORE LIKE HER.. SHERRY
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