Bonds of Love [Paperback]

Candace Camp (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1992

Willful and defiant, New England beauty Katherine Devereaux is abducted by Confederate Captain Matthew Hampton and taken to England. By the author of Rosewood. Reprint.

Product Details

• Paperback: 444 pages
• Publisher: Harpercollins (Mm) (March 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0061040630
• ISBN-13: 978-0061040634
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 4 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,403,181 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars 1978 bodice ripper, October 14, 2011

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RomReader (TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bonds of Love (Paperback)

Independent 24yo heroine is disconcerted by her attraction to 1 of the Confederate prisoners who her father hired to work in their shipping business. His brazen kisses ignite her sexuality for the 1st time ever which scares her enough to avoid him & accept a more suitable suitor's marriage proposal. Hero kidnaps her when he & his prisoner crew manage to escape from their guards. They sail to England where Hero plans to seek help to revoke his prisoner status in America. Heroine mistakenly thought that Hero would free her once they reached England but only to be guarded while he away for business. She escapes but is captured & forced to work as a prostitute in a brothel. Hero rescues her days later & was bereft & guilty at the trauma she experienced in his care. He lets her go back to America & heroine believes he's only doing so b/c he's disgusted with her forced-prostitution experiences. How will these 2 get back together?

As her 1st book(written in 1978), Camp's writing technique was good overall. The book flowed smoothly, story was consistent, & written with good emotional pull. What I didn't like about this book was the content. It is very much a bodice ripper & much of it was in the hands of Hero. He kidnapped, raped, & threatened her with bodily harm. He also cheated on her with multiple women just b/c he had nothing else better to do during the 3 days he was waiting on someone. He never confessed nor apologized to her for it. It was ironic that he realized that he fell in love with her after a few days of bedding other women. He wasn't trying to run away from his feelings for heroine. It just came to him that he still thought often of heroine even when he was with these other women. Hero wasn't all bad & he got better towards the end when he realized he loved heroine. He admitted & apologized for raping & abusing her. He sought vengeance over the 2 men who raped her while she was in the brothel. Heroine, on the other hand, changed for the worse when she was with Hero. She went from being an avidly independent & blunt woman to a more submissive & simpering one.

I'd only recommend this book if you're interested in comparing this 1st Camp book with her later ones.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bonds of Love, March 14, 2002

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sah "[e-mail]" (Bear River City, Utah USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bonds of Love (Paperback)

This is one of my all time favorites. I would like to read more work like this. It has a great story line and I really enjoy Kathryn and the Captain. I would recommend this book anytime. It's a keeper!

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very Good!, January 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Bonds of Love (Paperback)

This was the first romance book I read and I was hooked at the start. The storyline has so many twists and turns that you never know what will happen next. I was surprised that this type of book was so entertaining but I couldn't put it down!