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Summary: SAVE YOUR MONEY!
Review: I have read quite a bit of Catherine Coulter's book, which I've mostly enjoyed. This book is the worst book I've read all year. The Hero is a total big time womanizing, male chauvinist pig! He continues to sleep (and vastly enjoy it) with his mistress even on his wedding night to the heroine. He feels absolutely no guilt at all over it. This even happens close to the end of the book when his wife the heroine follows him and finds him on the point of having sex with his mistress. She kicks him in the groin and runs away. He then decides that he loves her and is going to be faithful to her. He doesn't grovel, he doesn't apologize, nothing and the stupid heroine just falls into his arms professing her undying love! Stupid! We, the readers are suppose to believe that 5 pages after he almost sleeps with his mistress he is now a changed and faithful husband. Yeah right! If you want to read about an unfaithful, unrepentent pig this is the book for you, otherwise save your hard earned money for a real romance...where the hero is redeemed and you can actually believe it and care.
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Summary: The Offer
Review: I just fell in love with the cover as soon as I began to read. The Offer has been my favorite ever since. This is an ideal Regency Romance. Catherine, thank you for writing wonderful stories especially "Mad Jack".
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Summary: The Offer is a hit!
Review: I just fell in love with the cover as soon as I began to read. The Offer has been my favorite ever since. This is an ideal Regency Romance. Catherine, thank you for writing wonderful stories especially "Mad Jack".
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Summary: typical, but I am left wondering...
Review: I liked the story, but it seems like characters appear out of nowhere, (like Richard Clarendon, and Charles) that leave me wondering if the book is part of a trilogy or series. There is a feeling like walking into a movie part way through. I do like the fact that Catherine Coulter does not summarize the other stories in a series like so many other author's do, ruining the story if you did not start at the beginning. By accident I bought the Wild Baron, and it appears to be a paralel of The Offer, connected through Phillips friend Rohan Carrington. I wish that the trilogy's or series were identified more clearly. I like to read a whole group at once, but can't if I don't know what the other books are called. The Offer had no reference to the Wild Baron on its cover. I must say though, that I am addicted, as predictable as these books are they keep you turning the pages into the wee hours.
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Summary: A terrible disappointment
Review: I was really disappointed after reading this book. I bought it expecting to have a romance, but it wasn't even! The author constantly made the heroine, Sabrina, sound desperate, skinny and very frail. And the hero, Phillip, proposed marriage to her in the beginning and them slept with his mistress on their wedding night! And to make matters even worse, she forgave him without a second thought. How this book came from the same author of "Rebel Bride," which I loved, is beyond me.
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Summary: Ms. Coulter should leave her books alone!
Review: I won't even both to summarize the plot of this book, except to say it's about a young female who can't take care of herself, a man who starts out nobly and spends most of the rest of the book selfishly, a villain and his wife who are sick sexually, a mistress who is unbelievably empathetic--trust me, REALLY unbelievable. And, other characters who just pop in and out for no apparent reason. I can see Ms.Coulter now, re-writing a fomerly enjoyable book. "Let me see", she says, "I'll add some really disturbing sexual conversation by the villain here. And a violent sex scene by the hero here. And I'll toss in the names of characters from some other books I've written, here--that will whet the reader's appetite for more. Then I'll add more dialogue. It might not fit very well, but it adds a few pages. OK! I'm done re-writing THAT one! Now, what other book can I modernize and re-sell?" I swear, I believe that's what Ms. Coulter or her agents are doing. This book is an example of taking a basically good book and making it less romantic and more confusing in an effort to update it. It does not have quite the nasty violence of some of her rewrites, but neither does it have the romance of the original. Please, Ms.Coulter, couldn't you just TRY to write something fresh in this genre?
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Summary: Really silly...
Review: I've never read a romance book with such a silly storyline before. Phillip (the hero) supposedly "loves" Sabrina (the heroine) but he does really stupid things...e.g. like going to have sex with his mistress on his/Sabrina's wedding night! Also, what a typical male chauvenistic pig he is! And before you know it... Voila! He suddenly discovers that he loves his wife and pledges his total loyalty to her (and that includes his womanizing ways)! I think this book shouldn't be classified under "romance"... I'm sure the author could do better!
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Summary: I enjoyed it most of the time
Review: Phillip and Sabrina were likeable enough, and I liked the first part of the book. After their 5 days together, I don't think that Coulter gave them enough time together. There were two things that spoiled the book for me. I couldn't forgive Phillip for going to have sex with his mistress on his wedding night! If he wanted to be honorable, he could have simply leave Sabrina alone that night. And after Sabrina find him half naked with his mistress totally naked, and have the good senses to leave him, we suddenly discovers that he is in love with her (where did that came from ????), and that he was at his mistress place only to get rid of her. We also heard more about Phillips sex with his mistress then about him making love to Sabrina.
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Summary: Pass it by
Review: Predictable- unlike her other stuff, a disappointment. Hero is a jerk (A1)and he's really not worth redeeming- yuck!
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Summary: To the reader from New York, August 22, 1998
Review: Richard Clarendon, Duke of Portsmouth, was the leading male character in Coulter's book The Deception, and I liked the book better than this one.
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