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Summary: All those Mackades need to live in my town!!
Review: "The Pride of...." was once again, a great book. These brothers have to be the best!! Nora Roberts hit home with this series!!!! Jared Mackade was married to a cool woman, until he decided she wasn't his type. Along comes Savanna Morningstar and her son, Bryan. Savannah soon shows Jared what type of woman he really likes. I have to say this one was my third favorite. Shane's story was the best!!!!
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Summary: have to give it a 5 star...
Review: even though i usually reserve those for the long books...(story is usually more involved and developed) but this being a 4 parter, its earned it. i LOVE these brothers! in this book, jarid is a divorcie which adds to my liking because hes not the perfect lawyer type. (they all seem to have characters flaws, which only makes them all the more real ) im having a difficult time finding the return of rafe mackade, but out of the 3 ive read this is the BEST !! ::smile
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Summary: Jared and Savannah are HOT
Review: I love Nora Roberts, and I was thrilled to read the McKade series. Of the 4, this was my favorite. Jared is a lawyer, who in doing a favor for a colleague, meets Savannah Morningstar, a children's book illustrator and former exotic dancer. They drive each other, and the reader, crazy...in the best way possible.
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Summary: Jared and Savannah are HOT
Review: I love Nora Roberts, and I was thrilled to read the McKade series. Of the 4, this was my favorite. Jared is a lawyer, who in doing a favor for a colleague, meets Savannah Morningstar, a children's book illustrator and former exotic dancer. They drive each other, and the reader, crazy...in the best way possible.
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Summary: Nothing like the first one - skip it
Review: I really enjoyed The Return of Rafe MacKade and I looked forward to reading the Pride of Jared MacKade. I enjoyed the book for about the first 150 pages - not as much as the first book, but enough for me to read through the last hundred pages when the characters turned ugly.Savannah Morningstar had a child when she was 16 years old. Beyond that, Savannah didn't speak much of her past. This and her easy acceptance of Jared into her life made Jared worry about her past and he became jealous of it. My big problem with Jared was he never asked Savannah about it in a calm way. He took digs at her and made accusations. Savannah claimed to love Jared and he was obviously insecure about her past, so I thought she should have shared with him and spoken with him rationally about it, which she refused to do. While I thought, as insecure as she was she should have better understood his insecurity and reassured him, I couldn't blame her for not wanting to after the way he attacked her about it. Jared learned very early in the story how insecure Savannah was, and he responded by repeatedly undermining her confidence, both in herself and in his "love" for her. Savannah ultimately responded to this by vandalizing Jared's property. I think this was supposed to be funny. I'm not sure. I found it disturbing. Her actions weren't in the heat of the moment, which would have made them almost understandable. She planned it out and then was proud of herself. Besides all the OBVIOUS problems with this, so much of the book was about what a good mother she was, but the message she was sending to her son here was that it's ok to destroy other people's property if you're mad at them. These were two people who really brought out the worst in each other. They were sexually attracted to each other, but they never had trust, compassion or understanding for each other - and didn't seem to want them. If these were real people I think we would have seen them on the Jerry Springer show by now.
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Summary: Not as good as the other MacKade books
Review: In Jared's story I felt like they didn't flesh out the relationship between Jared and Savannah enough, or Jared himself. We got to know Savannah very well and she was a very interesting, vibrant character. Yet Jared was aloof in a ways. This story seemed more rushed than the other three, but was still enjoyable.
3.5/5 stars
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Summary: The Mackade Brothers are great!!!
Review: This book is about the oldest brother of four brothers. He is a lawyer and he meets Savannah Moringstar when he goes to see her about her deceased Father. He is a neat freak and she is a single Mother with one son. The other brothers are in the story with there wives and future wives,there is Rafe(his book "Return of Rafe Mackade),Devin("Heart of Devin Mackade") and last Shane('Fall of Shane Mackade).I loved all four books. I recomende reading to all.They make you cry, laugh. and fall in love all over again.
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Summary: The Mackade Brothers are great!!!
Review: This book was better than expected! I really like to get into the long novels, like Nora Robert's other novels, or Judith McNaught. I just picked this up, intending to read this over the weekend. But once I got started, I couldn't put it down. I finished it in one night. This book starts as Savannah Morningstar (yeah, what a name!) moves to the small town (which I can't think of right now), with her young son, Bryan. She is weary of running from the law because they want to take her son away from her and put him into a foster home. She wants to start and put down roots, and where better than a close-knit town? In this town lives the MacKade brother: Jared, Rafe, Shane, and Devin. Rafe is already married, though I haven't read that yet. There is a bit of him and his wife in here. Anyway, Jared is the oldest, and is a lawyer. He's been divorced, and a bit bitter about marriage. He first meets Savannah about her father's death, and thus their relationship starts. He also bonds with Bryan. The MacKade brothers are so great! Though this is the first MacKade book I've read, I will try to read the others. They are always there for each other, though they tease each other mercifully. All of Nora Robert's series about male brothers are absolutely fantastic! They are always men who are handsome, wild, then convert into interesting but responsible men. Otherwise, great husbands! The Mackade brothers are no exception. This book is short, and it didn't really go in-depth into the relationship, but I got a feeling that I knew the characters. The way all the people interacted in this novel is so well-written. There is even a lead-in into the story of Devin and Cassie. Like I said, at first glance, I usually wouldn't pick it up. But I'm really glad I did! I recommend this to anyone who likes to just escape for a few hours and read a good romance!
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Summary: Really Better Than Expected
Review: This book was better than expected! I really like to get into the long novels, like Nora Robert's other novels, or Judith McNaught. I just picked this up, intending to read this over the weekend. But once I got started, I couldn't put it down. I finished it in one night. This book starts as Savannah Morningstar (yeah, what a name!) moves to the small town (which I can't think of right now), with her young son, Bryan. She is weary of running from the law because they want to take her son away from her and put him into a foster home. She wants to start and put down roots, and where better than a close-knit town? In this town lives the MacKade brother: Jared, Rafe, Shane, and Devin. Rafe is already married, though I haven't read that yet. There is a bit of him and his wife in here. Anyway, Jared is the oldest, and is a lawyer. He's been divorced, and a bit bitter about marriage. He first meets Savannah about her father's death, and thus their relationship starts. He also bonds with Bryan. The MacKade brothers are so great! Though this is the first MacKade book I've read, I will try to read the others. They are always there for each other, though they tease each other mercifully. All of Nora Robert's series about male brothers are absolutely fantastic! They are always men who are handsome, wild, then convert into interesting but responsible men. Otherwise, great husbands! The Mackade brothers are no exception. This book is short, and it didn't really go in-depth into the relationship, but I got a feeling that I knew the characters. The way all the people interacted in this novel is so well-written. There is even a lead-in into the story of Devin and Cassie. Like I said, at first glance, I usually wouldn't pick it up. But I'm really glad I did! I recommend this to anyone who likes to just escape for a few hours and read a good romance!
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Summary: A slow (in a good sense) romance
Review: This may be my favorite out of this exceptional series simply because the romance part of the relationship was well developed. Especially for a short novel. You felt the love blossom and there weren't any contrived 'misunderstandings'. These were real characters with real flaws and concerns. And I loved the fact that the single mother was not portrayed as helpless or a victim. Kudos to Nora (again!).
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