12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Bride in Blue, October 7, 2000
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A good girl always minds her father, right? Well, this good girl isn't going to sleep with her step-father, so she runs away to her much older boyfriend. Soon, she becomes pregnaunt. Unfortunately, the boyfriend dies and his family insists she marries her boyfriend's brother so the baby can have it's father's name. Everything is great--the girl doesn't have to do anything save for have the baby and then she can raise it or leave the family to raise it. But the brother starts to show her--in his rough way--that he loves her. She doesn't realize what he's trying to say until after she loses her boyfriend's baby and becomes pregnaunt with her husband's baby. When she fears she's about to lose his baby also, the girl realizes that some things are meant to be...and some aren't.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Brought together by the baby, July 18, 2010
19 year old Sophia was living with 37 year old Godfrey. He had saved her from her abusive stepfather and after living together 6 months she seduces him and they have very bad sex once. The very next day Godfrey collapses and is rushed to the hospital dying of cancer, and within a few weeks he's dead, Sophia is pregnant and Godfrey's younger brother Jonathon makes a death bed promise to marry Sophia.
This is the pretty standard harlequin fare with lots of drama and angst. I never really bought the love between them being almost all their relationship was based on sex. Jonathon never even took her out to dinner or did ANYTHING with her until they had been married at least 5 or 6 months according to my calculation. He basically just broods, shouts and looks longingly at her for the first 2/3 of the book, then they have sex and then he says he only wants her for sex and to give him children and nothing else. That's his story and he's sticking to it until the very very end.
What I Liked:
~The trashy but guilty pleasure of the forced marriage plot
~The sexy hero: sweet, charming and intriguing
~The surprising hot and yet sweet sex scenes (with little vanilla action going on)
What I didn't like:
~The sexy hero: sex obsessed, jealous and cold.
~The fact Jonathon cheated on her with not one but multiple women, I would guess between 3 and 5, maybe more. This might not bother some people being it was after they were married but they weren't intimate yet but his cop out excuse that he loved her so much he had to cheat on her so he wouldn't keep the gun loaded in his pants and he refused to take the problem in hand himself because he is a grown man left me cold. Not only that but he was sleeping with someone else within 24-48 hours of saying I Do and it just bugs me she will always know he broke his wedding vows to her so they seem rather meaningless when they only matter when she's willing to put out.
~The fact he called her a little bitch while they were having sex. If a man did that to me, sex would be stopping and not resuming again for the forcible future. (And then the lunkhead is stricken she felt like a whore, you don't call a woman you respect a bitch and certainly not during sex.)
~The heroine. She was blah and pretty boring.
The Sum up:
This has that overly dramatic, overly alpha, overly brooding, overly just about everything you would expect feel to it. If you can forgive the hero for being a cheat and calling there heroine a bitch you will like this. It has a dated feel with the male lead coming off as a sex obsessed animal who just needs sex from a woman and has no trouble getting it on with any woman around while Sophia sits at home cleaning and pining over her dead love Godfrey.
The actual feeling of love and romance didn't come until the last 10 pages or so and this really wasn't anything special, but if you are looking for a trashy book to waste a few hours ready this won't disappoint.
3 stars.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Bride in Blue, September 13, 2005
Back cover reads:
Brotherly love...?
It was Sophia's wedding day, but she wasn't a happy and radiant bride. How could she feel anything but blue when she wasn't marrying Godfrey, the man she'd loved and the father of the baby she was expecting? Instead she was to wed Godfrey's younger brother. Jonathon Parnell was coldly handsome, and ruthless about carrying out the deathbed promise he'd made to Godfrey: to marry Sophia and give their baby legitimacy and financial security.
Jonathan had assured Sophia that this would be a marriage in name only, but now she was beginning to realize that he expected her to act the role of his wife--in every sense...
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