3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Highly enjoyed., December 30, 2004
This review is from: The Perfect Bride (Zebra Regency Romance) (Paperback)
Napoleon Bonaparte has been captured for the second time. He is currently imprisoned on a ship only a short distance off-shore from the city of Plymouth. When Brianca Dunsworthy learns of this she sees red! Her brother, Kevin, had died while on the Continent. Though indirectly, she blames Napoleon for his death. She wants nothing more than to meet him face-to-face and tell him exactly what she thinks of him.
Brianca and Rosie Dunsworthy are the daughters of a deceased spendthrift baron. When Kevin died, the title went to a cousin. Aunt Millicent, who is only about ten years older than Brianca, took charge of the two sisters. They reside in the Dunsworthy Dower Cottage by the shore. During an extremely bad storm one night, as Brianca entertains the other two Dunsworthy ladies with a story, they find a man at their door. He is barely conscious and has a festering gun shot wound in his arm.
Lucian Wandersee, fourth Earl of Wandersee, has been wounded in a duel. He and his coachee, Moss, are traveling in secret to the country when he is laid low by a raging fever. Lucian awakens to find himself recuperating in a country cottage in the care of Brianca Dunsworthy. She is the loveliest and most outspoken young woman he has ever met. When he realizes she is trying to pair him up with her shy sister, he decides to turn the tables on her.
**** Brianca, Rosie, and Aunt Millicent each have their own story. This one is Brianca's. The hero and heroine of this novel are both sharp witted, as well as, hard headed. This makes for some very entertaining clashes. The story's main focus is on Lucian and the Dunsworthy ladies. This is fantastic! However, the sub plot on Napoleon is a bit weak. I could not help but feel that Brianca was portrayed as smart in everything EXCEPT when it came to Napoleon. I could not bring myself to believe that such a smart lady could be so foolish as to think she could just walk up to Napoleon, give him a polite scolding, and actually think he would suddenly feel guilt or grief at causing such havoc to so many.
As I read the story, I saw several secondary characters for possible matches for Rosie and Millicent. The author did a terrific job of building each character I came across. Unlike most other novels, Jo Ann Ferguson does not spend pages on the background and history of characters that readers will not see but once or twice. No filler pages and fluff here! This author sticks to the main characters and thoroughly entertains her readers by giving them what they want most, clashes between the main two characters and romance! ****
Reviewed by Detra Fitch of Huntress Reviews.
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
nice, adequate regency, November 29, 2004
This review is from: The Perfect Bride (Zebra Regency Romance) (Paperback)
I bought this book due to a glowing review and having never tried
Ferguson
before. TBH, this book wouldn't make me go run out and buy her backlist. It
is
competent, the characters aren't total ninnies (except for one brief TSTL
moment
from the heroine at the very end), the author knows her regency trappings
(except for the growing habit by authors of having their barely introduced
regency characters start calling each other by their first names) and the
plot isn't way-out-there stupid but....it just didn't light any fires under
me.
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