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Daring Bride (Brides of Montclair #13)

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Daring Bride picks up the stories of several Cameron/Montrose females from the earlier books. Kitty has a hard time forgetting the horrors she saw in the Great War and the love of her life whom she lost as a direct result of that War. Her bitterness creates a deep chasm between her and twin sister Cara that lasts for many years. In a cathartic measure, Kitty writes a book about the devastation of the Great War and meets a loving, caring book editor in the process. Could this be her second chance at love? Likewise, Evalee has lost her own great love and returns to Virginia widowed and penniless with a young daughter to raise. As she builds a business from the ground up, Evalee meets two men who love her and want her to spend their lives with them, one for whom money is no object and one for whom a love of books and teaching children is his main objective. Can one of these men be Evalee's second chance? Finally, Bryanne goes to Italy at the expense of her grandmother Garnet to get over losing her first love in a fatal accident. Will Bryanne, too, finally meet someone and get another chance at love? This is a great entry in the Montclair series, and my only criticism is that Peart needs to put a family tree in each book to keep me straight on the rather complicated family relationships.

So far, this is my least favorite of the entire Montclair series. I did not like that there were 3 separate storylines spread out over 8 years in less than 250 pages. It was most obvious that Ms. Peart was trying to wrap up this series considering there are 2 more books to go.

I loved the story of Bryanne and Evalee. However, I thought all of the romantic stories of the three heroines were rather abrupt and bleak. Kitty, who I used to love, I didn't even find likable. It wasn't necessarily her antiwar sentiments that I didn't like but it was her intolerance of anybody that disagreed with her. She just wasn't herself in this book. I actually ended up liking Care more.

I loved Bryanne and felt for her especially when it came to her father, Jeff. In this book, you really see how incapable Jeff is about caring for his own family. You see the self-absorbed monster he really is. However, I thought that Bryanne's story was awfully short.

Evalee shown the most in this book. I loved how she transformed her life with her shop. She became more than the self-absorbed brat everyone thought she was. I just wish they had given her a better struggle that working for that horrible man!