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Summary: Sixpence Bride
Review: A thrilling tale of duty, rebellion, and an unexpected passion that sizzles across time.
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Summary: a enjoyable read
Review: I bought this book when one of my Amazon.com friends bought it and gave me a discount if I bought it also. I'm glad I did. It was an enjoyable, quick read. The story is a time-travel-historial one where the heroine is not only transported back in time but into another body. Jocelyn starts off on a bus tour in England where they have stopped to see a reenactment of a Bride sale. She is the chosen "bride" and gets into the costume only to find that everything has changed, including herself. She is sold to a handsome Lord Garren who is only marrying to get his father off his back. He is strongly attracted to her but cannot understand her strange ways and her insistance that she is in the wrong body! He deposits her at his country home and goes back to his old life. Jocelyn soon realizes that she cannot change the fact that she is now someone else and in another time but decides to adapt. She starts with making the new body hers which causes several raised eyebrows. She soon enlists Garren's father to help her win Garren. It is a very amusing plan. Garren soon realizes that he needs her and loves her but is still unable to believe her story. They both must struggle to trust each other and overcome the past and the future. I really enjoyed this tale and I look forward to others by this author. I'd like to see a sequel about the girl who took over Jocelyn's modern body.
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Summary: One-sided romance
Review: I started reading this without knowing it was a Time Travel, a genre I don't understand, so I've bumped up my rating by a star to compensate. No, we don't know why the time travel works, but then it's rarely explained, is it? (That's the reason I'm not fond of the genre.) As a book, this is solidly written, nicely paced, and the heroine is as interesting a heroine as you'll probably find except that we really have little idea of her background. But the hero--! I still haven't figured out WHY the heroine was attracted to him other than by his manly good looks. We never learned enough about him to assign him a personality. He's handsome. He's rich. He's a lord. He also drinks too much and is unkind to women he's not attracted to. Sorry, I want more in a hero. I also want to know why the heroine's such a Luddite. Apparently life with technology was fun and roses (and of course it's always handy to have had a certain history course in college that one remembers dates from: too much coincidence!). I enjoyed the parts about exercising and fat-free foods. The humor of the book was appreciated. A little more of the hardships of primitive life, a little more fleshing out of the hero (and heroine's background) and this would be a fine book.
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Summary: Sixpence Bride
Review: Jocelyn Tanner is a modern woman who travels back through time to find herself in a Bride Auction. She is also a laugh riot! Ms. Farmer developed her heroine so well, giving her not only a strong personality but a colorful language, that it made reading Sixpence Bride a sheer delight. There were several times while I was reading the book that I literally laughed out loud. The careful and creative use of expressions and habits from the 21st century made for some very enjoyable scenes. An amazing first effort. It is obvious Ms. Farmer is a daring and talented writer. I look forward to reading more of her novels...especially if they are peppered with lines like, "Buddy, you are a few sandwhiches short of a picnic." and "...You, sir, are in need of a padded cell with an 'I love me' jacket..."
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Summary: Sixpence Bride
Review: Jocelyn Tanner is a modern woman who travels back through time to find herself in a Bride Auction. She is also a laugh riot! Ms. Farmer developed her heroine so well, giving her not only a strong personality but a colorful language, that it made reading Sixpence Bride a sheer delight. There were several times while I was reading the book that I literally laughed out loud. The careful and creative use of expressions and habits from the 21st century made for some very enjoyable scenes. An amazing first effort. It is obvious Ms. Farmer is a daring and talented writer. I look forward to reading more of her novels...especially if they are peppered with lines like, "Buddy, you are a few sandwhiches short of a picnic." and "...You, sir, are in need of a padded cell with an 'I love me' jacket..."
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Summary: A Keeper!
Review: Jocelyn Tanner was part of a mock bride auction. When her blood sugar dropped (the symptoms sounded like Hypoglycemia) she sat down to keep from passing out. Instead, she passed through time! After the blackness faded, she found herself in a real bride auction! She was sold for a sixpence to Lord Garren Spenceworth and immediately wed. Garren's father had found out that he had bed Melody, a widow. His father took the opportunity to demand Garren wed within one month or he would choose a bride for Garren! The month was near the end. Out of spite to the ultimatum, Garren purchased a bride. It did not matter to him that she spoke strangely OR that she swore she was in a stranger's body! But when he fell in love with her the trouble began. Now Melody and her brother were causing trouble, a gypsy lady kept appearing at odd times to help Jocelyn out and tell her that someone else was transferred into her twentieth century body, and happiness seemed impossible! *** Oh, how I hope the lady who went to the twentieth century has her story next! This one is a KEEPER! You would do well to order in advance so you do not forget! DO NOT MISS OUT ON THIS ONE! Highly recommended! Awesome! ***
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Summary: Escape into this Book
Review: On a Tour of England Jocelyn takes part in what is suppose to be a mock auction. As it turns out she is sent back in time to what turns out to be a real auction. Switching body's with someone who is sent to her time. Look for the mysteries woman who may have something to do with the switch This is a nice romance a good way to spend your time reading this book.
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Summary: A Fun Read
Review: Sixpence Bride is a humorous, adventurous romp in time. The story doesn't drag us down a convoluted path trying to understand how Jocelyn Tanner, a modern woman, suddenly finds herself in a bride auction in the 18th century, we just accept that it happens, just as Jocelyn herself must accept it. That it happens at the right time for the handsome hunk of a nobleman, Garren, to purchase her for sixpence, well, that's enough to keep turning the pages. Jocelyn not only has to cope with a "new" time but with a "new" body, made doubly difficult by the fact that both body and mind experience a definite jolt of attraction to her "new" husband. There are hilarious moments as this modern gal struggles to not only cope, but to succeed.
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Summary: a sheer delight!!
Review: The fun begins when Jocelyn Tanner, jilted by her fiance, decides to go ahead and take the wedding trip to England she planned to take with her new husband. On the trip, she participates in a historical reenactment of a wife sale--where she is the wife for sale--and finds herself sold to a man named Garren Warrick for sixpence. When he carries her off, she thinks the reenactment has gone a bit too far, and she's ready to get back on the tour bus...then slowly comes to realize that she has been transported to eighteenth-century England where she is, indeed, Garren's wife. "Sixpence Bride" is an engaging time-travel romance. In her debut novel, the author displays a light touch and brings to life a heroine who is both vulnerable and strong and has enough wackiness to accept the strangeness of her situation with humor and practicality. For instance, finding herself in a fuller body, she gets serious about her ab crunches--much to the consternation of the Warrick household. I won't spoil the joke of the character she chooses to portray at a costume party. Suffice it to say that the charm of this story is the big wink the author shares with her readers
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Summary: Formerly-plump Heroine
Review: Thoroughly modern Jocelyn Tanner was willing to lay aside her feminist reluctance at participating in the reenactment of an old-time wife swap while vacationing in England.   But she never expected to faint dead away during the tableau and wake up in the very time period she'd been mimicking! Her new "husband", a foul person indeed, is desperately trying to cast her off in exchange for a few cents, and Jocelyn is more than willing to help him complete the sale. If only a suitable replacement "spouse" would rescue her from this predicament! Garren Warrick, Lord Spenceworth, is in deep trouble indeed. With his father after him to take a wife, and no gentle woman who interests him in sight, Garren is fast becoming desperate. But not so desperate as to be dragged to the altar by that doxy, Lady Paxton, who had lured him to her bed a mere six months after her husband's death. With the Duke's marry-or-be-disowned ultimatum ringing in his ears, a rebellious Garren finds his luck is changing as he passes by a wife sale during his travels in the countryside. Content to satisfy his father's dictate by hurriedly purchasing a bride (however unsuitable) he drops the grateful-but-confused Jocelyn off at his country estate and hastens back to London to get on with living his life as it suits him. But events beyond his control have him returning to his new wife, whom he is shocked to discover is a most delightful and intriguing companion. Garren Spenceworth would never have guessed that he would find his spouse to be not only six-pence-worth, but completely priceless. But can he look past her slight tendency towards insanity as she babbles on about being from the future, and find contentment with her in his present? What worked for me: It's always fun to see modern people struggling to make sense of their new surroundings when they fall into the past. Size-wise Jocelyn was unhappy with her new body as its plumpness reminded her of her high school days when she was tormented for being on the heavy side. Rather than accustom herself to her new body, she decided to make it adjust to her and put herself on a strict dietary and exercise regimen. (I couldn't help but wonder if the young lady from the past who swapped places with Jocelyn freaked out similarly in the future and tried to make her slender new body gain weight?) What didn't work for me:    Frankly, of all the trials a modern woman would face living in the past, I doubt I would focus on not gaining weight from the rich meals. Indeed if there was anything to be concerned about as far as food goes, I would be far more terrified of falling ill from it being poorly prepared in unsanitary conditions! I never really felt I knew Jocelyn or Garren all that well, so had a hard time rooting for them to work out their differences. I also had some reservations about Jocelyn's attempts to make her husband believe that she truly was from the future simply by quoting chapter and verse to him from her college British History course. Overall:      A solid read for fans of time-travel romances. If you liked "Sixpence Bride" you might also enjoy "Somewhere in Time", "A Love Through Time", or "Say You're Mine".
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