Dream Fever

Rating:
Summary: Am I missing something here?
Review: I just don't see what everyone finds so great about this novel. I like Sutcliffe and enjoyed NOTORIOUS, but this novel was disappointing. I guess I just don't like novels where the romance is somehow unequal. Summer chased after Nicolas despite his continual rejection of her. After a while, I just wanted her to say "adios" and leave him. Yes, I know he's tortured and that deep down he loves her, but it still got on my nerves.

Also, to be truthful, I didn't like Summer all that much. She actually got on my nerves with her constant Pollyanna attitude.

Oh, well, to each his own.

Rating:
Summary: Am I missing something here?
Review: They don't get much better than this. A feisty heroine, a brooding emotionally scared hero, and an exotic location.

The story revolves around Mr. Nicholas Winston Saber Esquire (the youngest son of the Earl of Chesterfield) who was exiled to New Zealand after killing another man in a duel over a woman's honor. He spends the next five years in an emotional prison, bitter with the world (women in particular), resentful of his father, and despising himself and everyone around him. He is eking out an existence on an isolated sheep farm, and one night during a bout of drinking, he is tricked into marrying (by proxy) a woman he has never met. His mail-order bride ends up being feisty Summer O'Neile who was forced to flee England to escape the consequences of an act of self-defense.

Summer travel to New Zealand and explodes into Nicholas' solitary world. She shatters the walls he has built up around himself, and also battles the accepted prejudices (farmers/cattleman vs. sheep herders) of a community. Summer falls deeply in love with her brooding, bitter husband (who she learns never really wanted a wife), and the more Nicholas tries to push her away, the more she worms her way into his heart.

If you can find a copy, get it. This is truly a unique love story.

Rating:
Summary: Keeper +
Review: They don't get much better than this. A feisty heroine, a brooding emotionally scared hero, and an exotic location.

The story revolves around Mr. Nicholas Winston Saber Esquire (the youngest son of the Earl of Chesterfield) who was exiled to New Zealand after killing another man in a duel over a woman's honor. He spends the next five years in an emotional prison, bitter with the world (women in particular), resentful of his father, and despising himself and everyone around him. He is eking out an existence on an isolated sheep farm, and one night during a bout of drinking, he is tricked into marrying (by proxy) a woman he has never met. His mail-order bride ends up being feisty Summer O'Neile who was forced to flee England to escape the consequences of an act of self-defense.

Summer travel to New Zealand and explodes into Nicholas' solitary world. She shatters the walls he has built up around himself, and also battles the accepted prejudices (farmers/cattleman vs. sheep herders) of a community. Summer falls deeply in love with her brooding, bitter husband (who she learns never really wanted a wife), and the more Nicholas tries to push her away, the more she worms her way into his heart.

If you can find a copy, get it. This is truly a unique love story.

Rating:
Summary: Dream Fever
Review: This was the most amazing book I have ever read! I am constantly in search of another book that meets the standards that this book has set. I look forward to many more of Ms. Sutcliffe's works if they are half as good as Dream Fever!