Bold Pursuit [Paperback]

Zabrina Faire (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Warner Books (November 1980)
• ISBN-10: 0446944645
• ISBN-13: 978-0446944649
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,044,152 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Good, May 18, 2005

By 

E. Lynch "romance book fanatic" (Northern Virginia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bold Pursuit (Paperback)

I liked this Zabrina Faire book. Her characters are different and engaging. The beginning was really wonderful, but I lost some interest in the middle.

Livia has fallen in love. Her blond Adonis, Lord Ormond, says all the right things - doesn't seem to mind she is an intelligent woman in her third season. Livia has sadly been in the shadow of her lovely fair cousin Marianne, her exact opposite. Marianne is the toast of town and not a thought in her head. Now both are engaged! Marianne is to marry her father's young friend Sir Justin Warre and she is not happy about it. When her fiancé comes to London for the double wedding, they all meet each other for the first time. Livia finds Sir Justin a little unyielding and judgmental but he appears to care for Marianne. But when the wedding day arrives, both Livia and Sir Justin are left at the altar! Jilted - Marianne and Lord Ormond have eloped to Gretna.

The pursuit is on. First Lord Semple (Marianne's father), Sir Justin, Livia and her maid Nancy set out after the errant couple. But an accident occurs and Lord Semple and Nancy are left behind while Sir Justin and a disguised Livia carry on. (This was a little outlandish ... but it is fiction). Posing as uncle and nephew, robbed several times and left penniless, Livia and Justin end up at a sort of traveling fair, where there are boxing bouts, gypsies, etc... I was not very interested in a great portion of that. Later there is an abduction - and when Sir Justin recovers his missing "nephew," we understand that his feelings have changed towards Livia and both are no longer pining for their respective fiancés! He is harboring a secret which we find out about along the way.

Villains, including the witless Marianne, receive mild retribution at the end. The ending was rather nice. Pleasant reading.