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Loading... Gefährliche Maskerade einer Lady - Historical Gold Band 272 (edition 2014)by Anne Gracie
Work InformationTo Catch a Bride by Anne Gracie
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This was everything a regency romance should be. Very well done. The heroine is spirited and capable while also fresh and charming. The hero knows almost from the first that he wants her. He treats her very well and does everything he can to win her. The conflicts seem real and not just a contrivance to fulfill a plot. The author seems to have done her homework and the flavor of the times is very well done without being too rigid. ( ) A most peculiar mish-mash of historical romance tropes. It’s almost as if Ms Gracie had thrown a few dozen stock characters and stock narratives into a hat, pulled out six, then stuck them together without realising that they didn’t fit. Write-by-numbers heir to a dukedom agrees to a marriage of convenience but finds an excuse to postpone it for a year while he runs around Egypt looking for the missing granddaughter of a dear old friend of his own granny. It takes him only two or three pages to find her. Thus begins what appears to be a stock Pygmalion narrative. Unfortunately Eliza/Ayisha/Alice seems to remember how to say ‘the rain in Spain’ so that particular narrative doesn’t go far. She agrees to accompany her rakish rescuer back to England and the story flags, so the author throws in a tediously long nurse-back-to-health episode which serves only to put the heroine in a must-marry compromising situation. More boredom, so the author decides to throw in an attack by pirates in which the heroine beats off dozens of dastardly villains by rapping their knuckles with the handles of pistols. Arriving in England, the dear old lady who so wanted to see her granddaughter suddenly decides she wants nothing to do with her when it turns out she’s illegitimate. So much for the dear old granny. But, surprise, surprise, the heroine proves to be legitimate by the flimsiest of technicalities. All is now well: cue orchestra for a happy ending. The book has one redeeming feature. Ms Gracie knows how to write. The characterisation and dialogues may be tedious but the story moves along at a steady clip. By far the weakest of the three books I’ve read by this author. As a book reader, you need a romance every once in awhile to make your heart flutter just a little. I do tend to lean toward the romances where the two main characters are at odds with each other, it just makes the ending so much more delicious. Oh I did like the book, and even though it was the third in a series of books, it stood alone quite well. The secondary characters were a delight, and I hope there is a story about the man in Egypt and the heroine's best friend. That would be a book I would love to read. Rafe would rate a 6 on my alpha male scale. He wasn't to overbearing, and perhaps a bit stubborn, but so was Ayisha. I loved her story of survival, it made me like her as a character even more. no reviews | add a review
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It was the perfect excuse to delay a dreaded marriage of convenience-head off on an exotic journey to track down a young lady missing in Egypt for six years. Rafe Ramsey, son of the Earl of Axebridge, is utterly besotted when he finally locates the beautiful and spirited Ayisha, who has taken a new name. But a mysterious past has made it impossible for her to return to England, and she is on the run from something far more serious than an unwanted betrothal. No library descriptions found. |
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