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The Bridal Season

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I just love Connie Brockway. Her characters are vibrant, real people that you would like to know. "A Bridal Season" was laugh-out-loud funny. Lily Potts is charming, witty, and flawed. Her attempts at aristocratic social graces are laughable, she's loud, ambitious, an opportunist, and something of a vamp, but she is so full of honest good will and humor you love her for it. Elliot March is sexy. If he wasn't make-believe that is. He is a man of integrity and honesty, a man who truly lives by what he feels is right and wrong, which I admire. But under his reserve lies a wonderfully open and humorous spirt, and he loosens up when he meets the woman of his dreams to give as good as he gets. My favorite thing about Brockway's heroes is how hard they fall for the women they love. And Elliot is no exception. I just love the scene at the end where Elliot claims his bride-- throwing all his reserve and propriety to the wind. My only regret is that Ms. Brockway did not show us as much as I would have liked of Lily and Elliot's love scene. Elliot is a very sensual man, but I felt that scene was only half completed. This aspect keeps "A Bridal Season" from being one of my favorite Brockway books. But truly, a delightful & hilarious story. Connie Brockway is one of a handful of writers I buy on name only.

Stepping politely over the failures which some Regencies set purely in London court, Connie Brockway charms entirely within the confines of a little traveled village & and it's occupants.

Being only my second novel from this author, I didn't know to look forwards to a plot with a `confidence trickster' masquerading as a Duke's daughter - instead I dreaded it. Until about 10 pages in when I realized it was absolutely perfect!

The brash Letty impersonates Lady Agatha White & fills her shoes in arranging a wedding for a country miss. She becomes involved unwillingly drawn into the lives and mini melodramas of the people around her, and falls hard for the local magistrate - Elliot. And that is enough of a plot synopsis for you lot! (greedy eyes)

Charming where it could have been ridiculous, bold when it could have been trite, the simple ease and humor with which the author delights and entertains the reader is impossible to describe.

In the unlikely Letty, we find no shrinking heroine, but a `woman of the world' who is quite aware of her own appeal and not a bit above using it. Every chapter begins with a maxim, and I came to thoroughly enjoy them - take for example, `The villain gets to cheat, lie, steal, and kick the dog, because in the end you shoot him'. All slightly stage centered advice passed on from her mother and the applicable line before each short chapter.

Even the hero is thoroughly believable and wonderfully suave.

Setting the time frame a little later than Regency England, into the last decade of Queen Victoria's reign, the dress provides a refreshing change from all that dampened muslin and so on! Sweeping hats are delightfully apparent, and our heroine sashays well..

A wonderful companion novel to Bridal Favours by Connie Brockway
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THE BRIDAL SEASON immediately shot to the top of my "Best Reads of 2001" list. It's fresh, funny, and thoroughly delightful from the first page to the last. You can't help but root for Letty and fall in love with Elliot. It's not Letty's strengths, but her flaws that make her such a compelling character. I hate reading about perfect women because I've never been one! The croquet game is truly a classic scene. All of the secondary characters are perfection, even Fagin/Lambikins. I liked this book so much that I ordered it in hardcover (...) after I'd already read it in paperback. Bravo, Ms. Brockway!

THE BRIDAL SEASON is just what the doctor ordered for post-turkey Blahs. Letty Potts and Elliot March are the odd-couple of the romance world and do sparks ever fly when they're together. She's pretending to be a high-class lady but she knows it can only be for a very short time and she also knows that he's the last person on earth that she should fall in love with. He's a high-class gentleman and ex-soldier who knows that there's something off about the beautiful "Lady Agatha" but the more he gets to know her the less he can concentrate on, well, ANYTHING! Laugh out loud funny but shivery romantic, too, the perfect holiday read.

This book is more reminiscent of her earlier books. The humor is back, the characters don't overact, the heroine is competent, the hero is yummy, the ending could have several diffent possibilities so it keeps you guessing and it's a touching story. This is an author you buy on name alone and will not be dissapointed with.

Connie Brockway is one of my very favorite writers! The Bridal Season was a riot! Trust me, buy this book RIGHT NOW, you won't be disappointed. Plot, charcters, well-developed, memorable. I loved Elliot March and the heroine was memorable as well. The croquet game in here was very, very funny! Connie consistently writes good books and this one should not disappoint! Also recommend: MY DEAREST ENEMY and ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT.

i am a fan of connie brockway and her latest does not disappoint. it
is a nice change to have a heroine who is not of the 'upper
classes' but just a regular person. the relationship between her
and the hero was great with lots of sizzling sexual tension.
secondary characters were also interesting particularly fagin the heroine's canine travelling companion. oh for a dog that will snatch purses for you! if you haven't read ms brockway this is a good one to start with but be sure and read ' a dangerous man' still my all time favourite.

As usual, Connie Brockway is in top form: wonderful characters, sexy, witty writing, fast-paced and insightful. The Bridal Season is both very entertaining and thought provocative. The hero, Sir Elliot March, is not only handsome, sensual and utterly appealing but also very principled and faced with a real moral dilemma which he resolves well. Our colorful heroine Letty Potts is a delight to watch as she charms everyone while transforming into a better person through confronting her own dilemma. For intelligent entertainment that's impossible to put down, try The Bridal Season, along with all of Connie's previous work.

A saucy heroine, a mouthwatering hero, a charming community, fun and wit and passion, this one has it all. Letty and Elliot are both immediately likable and delightfully original. Letty, raised as music hall performer, seeks to escape her increasingly nefarious boyfriend and finds a ticket to a tiny town called Little Bidewell, where she is mistaken for the eccentric Lady Agatha, duke's daughter-cum-wedding planner extraordinaire. Letty, whose luck had just run out, can't resist such an Opportunity and gets swept up in what begins as a rather benign deception. Soon, however, she becomes entangled in the lives of the charming Little Bidewell residents, including the sexy, chivalrous Sir Elliot.

Elliot is neither rogue nor rake, but a true gentleman; however, don't be put off if you thought only bad boys could be sexy! He's one of Brockwell's most irresistable creations!

The story is chock full of Brockway's delightfully witty dialogue, and there are many humorous moments, but what begins as an undeniable, potent attraction between Letty and Elliot becomes a heart-wrenching and most romantic unrequited (almost) love.

If you're open to something a little different but still demand great, passionate romance, try this one! I doubt you'll be disappointed!

This is my first Connie Brockway book, so I have no basis of comparison, but I found it fabulous. And I just got on Amazon to buy a few more. What I love about this story is that it's the guy that really falls head over heels in love and the two main characters are very passionate. Brockway also includes a really great supporting cast that adds the right touch of humor on top of a very high sexual tension. Really entertaining and romantic, I had the day off and finished it all at once. Almost dissapointing to come to the end and have to put it down..Brockway is a new favorite next to Julie Garwood, Catherine Coulter and Judith McNaught.