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Summary: Cute beginning...
Review: I felt the book started off sweet but it started getting ridiculous towards the end. Without disclosing much, I don't understand why Josh wanted a mail order bride. His current situation wasn't permanent! Were his intentions to divorce this mail order bride in a year? His true identity was too much for me. I realize it's just a story, but it was too sappy for me. I would not recommend this one.. too many good books out there that are truly worth the time and money.
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Summary: I loved it!
Review: I might be biased, but I just love everything this woman writes!!! Especially when it has to do with the Montgomery and Taggert families. This story was beautiful, but if you really want to read a book over and over like I have, read Sweet Liar!
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Summary: Cute, but...
Review: I thought that this was a cute story. I felt like it was written just to meet a deadline, though. There really wasn't much substance to this. My favorite parts of the whole book were the scenes with 'Ring. I think that I have already read the best of Jude, because lately the books I have been reading have been a far cry from AKISA and Remembrance. Knowing that she can write books like those, this is a disappointment, along with the last few books I reviewed. Though the story was cute, and Carrie was absolutely adorable, it is a pretty forgetable book. Sorry!
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Summary: Cute, but...
Review: I thought that this was a cute story. I felt like it was written just to meet a deadline, though. There really wasn't much substance to this. My favorite parts of the whole book were the scenes with 'Ring. I think that I have already read the best of Jude, because lately the books I have been reading have been a far cry from AKISA and Remembrance. Knowing that she can write books like those, this is a disappointment, along with the last few books I reviewed. Though the story was cute, and Carrie was absolutely adorable, it is a pretty forgetable book. Sorry!
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Summary: A perfect family
Review: I've read 3 JD books so far, Knight in Shining Armour, the Conquest and this one. This is the only one where I didn't find any fault. A perfect and complete book!
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Summary: Eternity of Stupidity
Review: Oh my god! What could Jude Devereaux have been thinking of when she submitted this joke of a novel to her editor. I cannot believe this same person wrote, A Knight In Shining Armor. This is the story of Carrie Montgomery, a spoiled little rich girl who has everything and has time to spare. So she and her little friends decide to set up a Mail order bride service for men and women alike. She falls in love with a picture of a man and his two children, Carrie is determined to be his mail order bride. So her parents leave her to galavant across the country to marry a man neither she or they know. Joshua Greene (her new hubby) is not amused by his petite little bride. He had expected a horse of a wife to come and essentially be his personal servant, mule, laborer. So when the dainty Carrie who cannot work his fields appears with her good looks and lots of money, she just wouldn't do. Personally, I found this book to be insulting to women in general. Carrie eventually ended up with her guy, but it implied that attractive women were ditzy and used money and wiles to get thier way, while mulish horselike women could accomplish anything on their own merit. Truly, this book is not worth the 5 minutes it takes to read it. Don't waste your time.
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Summary: What a Dissapointment!!!
Review: This book started off great. I invested a lot of time and emotion in most of the book. I loved the characters and got really involved and read the book in two days. The last 5 chapters were slapped on the book. There was no thought put into these last chapters. There was no climax; no big secret. The end of the book was so abrupt, I couldn't believe it! It had such potential and then totally flopped. I wish I had never read it because I invested so much in the story and the characters only to be let down harshly. Don't bother. This book was such a waste of time and emotion.
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Summary: Romance Lite
Review: This is "whipped cream" romance--very lite, very little substance, and almost too sweet--depends on what you're in the mood for this week. Carrie Montgomery is the youngest sweetest daughter in a family of big hunking males who affectionately spoil her like her lap dog. She gives substance to her days by playing mail order matchmaker to post Civil War farmers who need brides out on the frontier. One day the photograph of Josh Greene and his two motherless children captures her attention so much that after a week of gazing and dreaming about the undeclared needs of this family (Josh's stated needs are for a superhuman farm wife/mother)--Carrie tricks her family and Josh into a wedding-by-proxy and is eventually on her way to her new husband and family. (Somehow her own parents don't protest this move or her actions.) Carrie arrives, baggage wagon full of Parisian dresses, to an understandably irate Josh Greene. Carrie immediately charms Josh's children, transforms Josh's shabby home into a storybook cottage (in a funny sequence involving the townspeople and a purse of gold coins), hires local women to compensate for her lack of knowledge of cooking and washing dishes--and doesn't understand why Josh is still stubbornly resistant to her other qualities. Josh has his own secrets, is as out-of-place in this small farming community as Carrie, and is unwilling to trust this pretty intruder. Carrie "proves" her "substance" in a rainy search on the mountain for a runaway child, and later by transforming the dying town into a mercantile center with her exclusive dress shop--all a little too quickly and easily. Carrie's brother 'Ring and another stranger arrive, provoking the final crisis, the revealing of Josh's secrets, and the happy resolution. (My question is: if Josh had gotten the superhuman/horse-face/farmwife he originally wrote for--what did he intend to do with her once he returned to his "real life"?)
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Summary: Great Romance
Review: This is in my top five favorite Jude Devereaux books. Smart, funny characters and a headstrong Montgomery liven up the story. But this time it's a Montgomery woman who goes after love and turns a frontier town on its ear. Wish she wrote more like this with a Montgomery woman as the protagonist.
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Summary: Ok, but not one of her best.
Review: This was a good read when there's nothing better to do. It's a minor point, but I could never figure out how or why her brother got a Maltese from China. The Maltese is a european dog (Malta), what was one doing in China in the 1800's?
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