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AMANDA ROSE (TROUBADOUR BOOKS)

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This is another one of my favorite romance novels... I just simply adore Karen Robards' style of writing. If you feel like reading a book that'll take you on a wonderful journey with two passionate and unique characters, then AMANDA ROSE is definitely for you. Here's a brief review, but it is difficult to put in words the experience one receives when reading this enchanting novel. Set in the 1840s, between England and New Orleans, Matt Grayson is our handsome hero, who is sought after by the English police for a crime he didn't commit. He manages to escape a hanging but not without getting a shot in the side by the guards. It is Amanda Rose Culver, an orphan living in a convent, who discovers Matt's limp and battered body washed up by the shores near her convent. Though she knows the danger she's getting herself into, through her kind and sweet heart she rescues Matt and heals him. As the two get to know each other better, Amanda realizes that she's falling in love with Matt and Matt realizes how much he's come to cherish her and yearns to protect her with his life. But when one morning Amanda realizes that the authorities have found Matt's hidden place (a cave under the convent) she immediately runs down to warn him, but unfortunately for her she didn't know she was leading the authorities straight to Matt. Matt believing that Amanda has betrayed him manages to barely escape again. It is when Amanda, thinking Matt is dead, is ready to move on in life, she is captured by Matt's brother and is held captive on Matt's ship to New Orleans. It is there on the ship she comes face-to-face with Matt again. Matt treats Amanda horribly, but through it all Amanda realizes that she still loves him. How Matt gets over his misunderstanding, and how the two fall deeper and deeper in love, is so well-written by Ms. Robards that all the dialogue and scenes that take place will have your heart thumping and tummy fluttering! When you find out why Amanda was really capture and brought to Matt's ship, it'll have you hoping that there were more characters like his! This is a romance story not to be missed!!! It's incredibly romantic.

The pages were steaming with the chemistry between Matt and Amanda Rose. I enjoy all of Karen Robards novels (both regency and modern). Amanda Rose resuces Matt, and then he kidnaps her to America. The plot of the story is somewhat weak...conflict arises from Matt's distrust of Amanda, who he believes betrayed him to the British authorities. Otherwise, the novel is well written with wonderful scenes of passion! Definitely a keeper!

It's the 1840's at a convent in England where Amanda Rose was taken to live by her hateful half-brother years ago after her father's death. She just received notice that he has arranged a marriage for her. Thru this marriage he will be able to obtain her inheritance money. Being the free spirit that she is, she wonders the beach when she can escape without notice by the nuns. It is during one of these times that Amanda runs upon Matt Grayson's battered body. He reveals to her the trouble that he is in but there is something about him that makes her want to help him. For this reason Amanda takes Matt to a cave that she knows about for hiding.

Matt Grayson is a ship & merchant owner from New Orleans and has been to England on business. During a business deal Matt was drugged, later to be woken up to police arresting him for the murder of an influencial family in England. Thru chance he escapes the hangman's rope (being shot during the escape) and ends up on a beach down below a convent while trying to wait for his ship to return for him.

Matt trust Amanda not to turn him in when police show up at the convent to arrest him. Amanda runs to warn Matt, leading the police right to him. Matt thinking Amanda has turned him in runs out to the sea to escape. His body isn't found but is believed to have drowned. Amanda's brother finds out that she has been hiding Matt and threatens to turn her in if she doesn't cooperate by marrying his suitor. Mourning Matt's death and her future, Amanda wonders out on the beach one night to be kidnapped by some of Matt's men and brother. She is taken to his ship to sail to New Orleans. Amanda finds out that Matt is still alive. And thinking Amanda turned him in, Matt is out for revenge. He will use Amanda sexually until he tires of her than plans to "throw her to the side." Those are his plans until feelings get in the way and Amanda's brother shows up in New Orleans to take her back to England. Matt's brother is really my favorite. It was a good story but was pretty chopped up at times, which normally isn't like KB's writing.

I really would like to rate this one a 3 1/2 stars. It is a sweet read, but there are so many better ones out there. I would recommend reading it but it is not a keeper for me. And it's not KR's best.

I enjoyed the book from beginning to the end. It has good character development and a romantic story line. Amanda was spirited, yet lovely and sweet. She literally saved the life of Matt. Matt was overwhelmed, almost could not believe that Amanda could be such an angel. But he did not want to love, because he was scared of being hurt when he loved another woman again. When he found out that he was in love with Amanda, he tried to rein his heart and clinged on a misunderstanding to keep him from falling head over heel with Amanda. Amanda was much more courageous in love, even making the painful decision to leave Matt, because she thought Matt did not love her and it would be a torture to be with him. The climax of such romance was when the hard hero finally came to term with his intense feelings which made those words many times more touching. A story with a happy ending, leaving a sweet smile on your face when you close the book.

I've read a few stories by Karen Robards, and this is one of my favorites. Matt is a great hero, even though it takes him awhile to come around. Throughout the book you can feel the intensity of his love for Amanda, even when he's being mean. Amanda is the perfect innocent young girl who takes you through her blossoming into womanhood and newly found love chapter by chapter. Everyone remembers the earth shattering experience of your first love. This book demonstrates it perfectly!

I dont care what anyone has to say about this book, it is my all time favorite book and will never leave my keeper shelf. No, it is not all mushy, nothing but romance. There are problems, Matt can be too hardheaded and Amanda too immature at times. But it goes with the story. I dont know about you, but I do not liek every book I read to be just like the one before it, with a plot that is only a little different. I love this book.

I loved the first 1/3 of this book. Nothing could have torn it otta my hands. Beginning scenes: at the hanging, in the cave, and within the convent; it's exciting, seductive, and humorous. I really liked Amanda and I could see how Matt found her charming and felt for her plight -- especialy when she's so good to him in his hours of need - 'an angel with red hair.' He warns her not to fall in love with him. I just wish someone would have warned me. After the kidnapping and aboard his ship the middle of the book becomes painful. He is mean & distant, so the story suffers,Amanda suffers,you suffer. Not so fun. But it does pick up again.

I usually don't take the time to write a review but after I finished this one, I felt compelled to!! This was a great read, full of suspense and love!! I was appalled at times the way Matt was treating Amanda, but glad Amanda didn't let him back so easily!! Glad to see the heroine didn't just come rushing back to him when all was forgiven!!

I would recommend this!!

At first, I was apprehensive about downloading Amanda Rose on my Kindle, because less than half of the reviews were 1, 2 or 3 stars. It turns out that I enjoyed reading Amanda Rose and am happy that I downloaded it. I didn't read where there was any forced sex between Amanda and Matt. From the beginning, when Amanda rescued Matt on the beach, there was a mutual and physical attraction between them.

In 1840, Lady Amanda Rose Culver was a thirteen-year old orphan when her mean and hateful brother, the sixth Duke of Brookshire, took her to the convent to live after their father, the fifth Duke of Brookshire, had died. Edward became Amanda's legal guardian. Amanda's father left her an inheritance that would automatically go to her husband when she married.

Amanda at seventeen had not heard from her brother in five years, until she received a letter from Edward just a week before she turned eighteen. Edward had made an arrangement for her to married widower Lord Robert Turnbull, a forty-year old nephew to Edward's late mother. Lord Turnbull agreed that when he marries Amanda that he would turn over the inheritance to Edward who has a gambling debt to pay off. Amanda is determined not to wed Robert, who is too old for her, and is someone she could not stand.

Matt Grayson is a ship owner and merchant from New Orleans who was in England on business. He stopped at a bar to get a drink when he checked his watch for the time. Someone in the bar left, then came back with the police. The watch and a knife they found on Matt belonged to an aristocratic family he was supposed to have killed.

Matt managed to escape the hanging, but the police shot him while he was escaping and the bullet clipped his side. Amanda was walking on the beach late at night in violation of the nuns' curfew. She discovered Matt's battered body which was washed up on the shore near the convent. Matt was waiting for his ship and brother to pick him up. He was bleeding from his side and had a fever. Amanda knew that Matt was a convicted murder and he had escaped the hanging. Amanda took him to a cave that no one knew about, and nursed him back to health.

Amanda was awakened by her friend Susan who told her that Mother Superior wants us all to come downstairs as soon as possible. The constable is here, and he's brought the local police with him. They believe the murderer Matt Matthew Grayson is at the convert. When Amanda went downstairs, her brother and Lord Turnbull were there to take Amanda off for the day. Amanda excused herself to warn Matt, but she was too late as the police were already chasing him down the beach. Matt tumbled right into the waves and the current brought him out into the high waters. Matt thinks Amanda had betrayed him.

Three days later, Amanda was walking on the beach late at night. Matt's brother Zeke, ordered his men to go on the beach and kidnapped Amanda. She tried to escape, but it was useless. Her mouthed was covered so she couldn't scream and her feet and hands were bound behind her back. Amanda was taken on one of Matt Grayson's ships heading for New Orleans, Louisiana. Matt was right there in his cabin when his brother brought Amanda to him. Then she realized that Matt was alive. Matt is angry with her, thinking that she betrayed him. Amanda was talking to deaf ears, trying to convince him that it was Edward and not her.

I recommend Amanda Rose. It is well written without unnecessary twists or turns. This is a romantic love story between two lonely people who found love.

I liked the book, with just three exceptions. I don't find forced sex, sexy & I could not see how Matt could believe for a minute Amanda betrayed him. After all the trouble she went to, to hide and save him and throughout the book it said she was a poor liar (blushing and so forth) and finally Amanda was always thinking how she wanted Matt no matter what and then she leaves him for England no less, where her half brother wants to get his hands on her again.