Never a Bride

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Summary: A Regency read that will . . .
Review: . . . leave you smiling for more! I adored the fresh idea of this book. Camden and Mirabella are the perfect foils. Their dialogue is witty, intelligent and sexy! What a charming story from Ms. Grey. And the cover is fantastic. Romantic and filled with details that keep catching my eye. NEVER A BRIDE will make you believe in love ever after.

Rating:
Summary: A Regency read that will . . .
Review: . . . leave you smiling for more! I adored the fresh idea of this book. Camden and Mirabella are the perfect foils. Their dialogue is witty, intelligent and sexy! What a charming story from Ms. Grey. And the cover is fantastic. Romantic and filled with details that keep catching my eye. NEVER A BRIDE will make you believe in love ever after.

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Summary: Don't miss this
Review: ...lively Regency-era story that includes an interesting mystery. Mirabella and Camden are two delightful characters who are made for each other, but what a time they have discovering that. This book is a snuggle-down-to-read that you're sure to enjoy!

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Summary: Don't miss this
Review: ...lively Regency-era story that includes an interesting mystery. Mirabella and Camden are two delightful characters who are made for each other, but what a time they have discovering that. This book is a snuggle-down-to-read that you're sure to enjoy!

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Summary: A good romance
Review: After six years in which her betrothed, Viscount Stonehurst, Camden Brackhurst, left her behind in a single state and went off to America, Lady Mirabella Whittingham adapts to remaining on the shelf. She even finds spinsterhood quite enjoyable that is until her best friend Sarah committed suicide. Sarah's diary blames her troubles on an aristocrat with a scar on the back of his neck. Mirabella plans to uncover the culprit's identity and take him to task. However, to do so requires kissing all the eligible bachelors in town for the season to inspect their necks because Sarah never names anyone.

As Mirabella makes the rounds and shocks the Ton, Camden finally returns from across the ocean. He is appalled at his fiancee's behavior, but finds he is very attracted to her. She is stunned to observe the telltale scar on his neck.

Though NEVER A BRIDE requires a plausibility leap, Regency romance fans will enjoy the tale. Readers must accept Mirabella's way out character behavior, but at the same time will admire her spunk and loyalty. The story line is fun especially when an outraged Camden makes his feelings known. On the other hand, six years waiting for someone who deserted you before you ever met makes his present day behavior seem inappropriate, but perhaps that is a modern day perspective by this reviewer. Still sub-genre fans will receive pleasure >from Amelia Grey's gender war historical romance.

Harriet Klausner

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Summary: A must-read and must-buy!
Review: I bet everybody knows the frustrating feeling browsing through books on shelf, to get that one perfect book to read during your weekend. You want a book that you can't put down until you finish it. You want a book full of mistery, twist and laughter. This is that book. I just love it lots. Thank you Amelia Grey for a wonderful weekend.

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Summary: Delightful!
Review: I enjoyed NEVER A BRIDE from start to finish -- Mirabella is an "original," an intelligent, spirited heroine with a great sense of fun. This book has everything I love about the Regency period, but touches that make it fresh and different. I look forward to more books by Amelia Grey. This is definitely a 5-star read!!

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Summary: intrepid heroine makes this Regency novel truly worthwhile
Review: I enjoyed reading this novel very much, and mainly because of the novel's one of a kind heroine, Mirabella Whittingham. Mirabella is exactly the kind of brave, intrepid and determined heroine that will have most readers rooting for her. Here is a woman who is firmly resolved to discover who seduced her cousin (Sarah), and to bring him to justice, no matter what it costs her. Mirabella is strong, loyal and charming. She fully realises that her scheme to unmask this villain is fool hardy and daring and could spell her social ruin, but she is still determined to carry on anyway, in spite of what others (the ton) think and despite the harm it could do to her reputation, and that makes her a truly admirable young woman.

The novel unfolds at a brisk and smooth pace; and the attraction that Camden and Mirabella feel for each other fairly shimmers with every page. And while both principal characters are well developed, the minor characters could have done with a little more development; but then this is really Mirabella's and Camden's story, so that that is not too much of a detraction. Only one thing about this novel made me grit my teeth: and that is the language. Every now and then Amelia Grey would frame certain chapters with a column from a newspaper, 'Society's Daily Column,' but the language she used in this column was rather 20th century, and just didn't gel with the rest of the novel. Likewise Sarah's (the dead cousin) diary entries which all started with 'Dear Diary.' I'm fairly certain that the women of the Regency era did not start off their diaries in such a manner. However I did enjoy reading "Never A Bride." Both Mirabella and Camden are the kind of grown up hero and heroine that makes romance novels satisfying to read, and totally deserved the 'happily ever-after' ending that this novel promised. This is a novel well worth reading and recommending.

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Summary: Delightful!!!
Review: In order to avenge the death of her close friend Sarah, Lady Mirabella Whittingham has vowed to find the person responsible for her taking her own life. She has Sarah's diary and the diary has revealed that the man has a raised scar on the back of his neck. So, Mirabella, being unconcerned with propriety as although betrothed, she has never seen the man and he left six years previously, never to return. She has resigned herself to a life of spinsterhood, so the scandal she's sure to bring by kissing each of the suspects and running her hands under his cravat,means little to her.

What she doesn't count on is the return of her betrothed, Camden Brackley, Viscount Stonehurst. And she is even more surprised to find that this man is the mysterious stranger she has recently met and can't get out of her mind. They are then both thrilled to discover one another's true identity.

But Camden has loved and lost once before. Six years ago he had found his then-betrothed in the arms of another man. He had vowed never to love like that again. So imagine is shock when he finds Mirabella in the same compromising position. He wishes to break their engagement and Mirabella agrees. However his family is in a very precarious financial state so he eventually gets Mirabella to go along with his ruse - they will act engaged in every way for several months - just until his family becomes more solvent - then they will quietly break off the engagement.

Of course, Camden's plans do not go as he had intended and he finds himself falling in love for the intelligent, lovely Mirabella - and she with him. It's not long before he joins her in trying to find the man who caused Sarah's death.

I am not much of a Regency historical reader - but I found this one absolutely charming. I couldn't put the book down. A real plus in this story is the intelligence of it's two main characters, Camden and Mirabella. Never did I feel the book deteriorate into silliness as could have easily been the case given the circumstances. I know when a book is particularly good when I find myself recommending it to total strangers in book stores. Such is the case with NEVER A BRIDE. An absolutely delightful read. Highly entertaining.

Rating:
Summary: Delightful!!!
Review: In order to avenge the death of her close friend Sarah, Lady Mirabella Whittingham has vowed to find the person responsible for her taking her own life. She has Sarah's diary and the diary has revealed that the man has a raised scar on the back of his neck. So, Mirabella, being unconcerned with propriety as although betrothed, she has never seen the man and he left six years previously, never to return. She has resigned herself to a life of spinsterhood, so the scandal she's sure to bring by kissing each of the suspects and running her hands under his cravat,means little to her.

What she doesn't count on is the return of her betrothed, Camden Brackley, Viscount Stonehurst. And she is even more surprised to find that this man is the mysterious stranger she has recently met and can't get out of her mind. They are then both thrilled to discover one another's true identity.

But Camden has loved and lost once before. Six years ago he had found his then-betrothed in the arms of another man. He had vowed never to love like that again. So imagine is shock when he finds Mirabella in the same compromising position. He wishes to break their engagement and Mirabella agrees. However his family is in a very precarious financial state so he eventually gets Mirabella to go along with his ruse - they will act engaged in every way for several months - just until his family becomes more solvent - then they will quietly break off the engagement.

Of course, Camden's plans do not go as he had intended and he finds himself falling in love for the intelligent, lovely Mirabella - and she with him. It's not long before he joins her in trying to find the man who caused Sarah's death.

I am not much of a Regency historical reader - but I found this one absolutely charming. I couldn't put the book down. A real plus in this story is the intelligence of it's two main characters, Camden and Mirabella. Never did I feel the book deteriorate into silliness as could have easily been the case given the circumstances. I know when a book is particularly good when I find myself recommending it to total strangers in book stores. Such is the case with NEVER A BRIDE. An absolutely delightful read. Highly entertaining.