The Aristocrat [Large Print] [Hardcover]

Catherine Coulter (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 2002

When American football star Brant Asher suddenly inherits a title and an English estate, the committed bachelor is obligated to marry Daphne, a woman described as an ugly duckling. Reissue.

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Editorial Reviews

Review

"A fast-paced, solidly structured read." -- Publishers Weekly on The Cove

"Catherine Coulter delivers." -- Minneapolis Star Tribune --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 357 pages
• Publisher: Thorndike Press (April 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786239778
• ISBN-13: 978-0786239771
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,479,780 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Catherine Coulter is the author of the New York Times-bestselling FBI thrillers The Cove, The Maze, The Target, The Edge, Riptide, Hemlock Bay, Eleventh House, Blindside, Blowout, Point Blank, Double Take and TailSpin. She lives in northern California.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars definately not one of her better ones...., December 2, 2004

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retroredux - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Aristocrat (Mass Market Paperback)

like other reviewers I'm a Coulter fan, mainly the Historicals but some contemporaries too-this one I couldn't even finish. Maybe it was the football story line-I'm no sports fan-but that's too easy an out. The characters-one dimensional, so trite and formulaic(sp?). I finally gave up the ghost after 80 pages. The storyline-about the marriage or no estate-would have made more sense in a historical, but just seems silly in a contemporary. I agree with another reviewer-this one was NOT up to "Coulter standards" I'm sorry to say..

If you do decide to chuck convention and buy this book anyway-buy it from a used Amazon seller for a penny-that way you won't be out too much dough.

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful As Always!, May 22, 2000

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Deborah L. Kepler "Deb Kepler" (Carthage, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Aristocrat (Mass Market Paperback)

Brant Asher is an American football star who has just inherited the title of Viscount Asherwood. In order to inherit the house as well as the money, he has to marry Daphne, his VERY distant cousin. The problem is that neither one ever wants to marry, especially not each other. Afterall, he's an American and rude and has no manners. She's very English and stiff laced and proper. Until they DO marry and fall in love.

Even though this is a contemporary, it reads like a historical with it's setting mostly in England and it's romance. I really loved this book, as well as everything that Catherine writes. Do try this, I think you'll like it!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Put the book down slowly on the ground and back away, August 2, 2002

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Tonya Palmer (Grand Forks, ND USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Aristocrat (Mass Market Paperback)

Catherine Coulter is one of my favorite romance authors, but this book has to be the worst she's written in terms of plot and character. Her 'hero' is actually cruel at one point. Throughout the book, in the guise of being a 'real man', he expects the 'heroine' to do all the compromising and sacrificing while he feels noble for actually loving and marrying her. And she accepts it! I had to read this book twice just to be sure I actually remembered how awful it really is. Never again.
To top it off, it's like Ms. Coulter dashed this off in a weekend and called it good. No emotional investment in the characters, no clear resolution of conflicts. I seldom meet a book I don't like, but this is one of them.