The Bride [Kindle Edition]

Carolyn Davidson (Author)

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

In late–19th-century New Mexico territory, Rafael McKenzie is searching for a bride to fulfill his dying father's wish that he marry a woman of virtue in order to lay full claim to his inheritance, the Diamond Ranch. Isabella Montgomery has been brought up in a convent and is promised to the no-good Juan Garcia. Determined to preserve Isabella's goodness and make her his own, Rafael spirits her away. The book's first half is dominated by their journey to Diamond Ranch, and while the trip is filled with a multitude of innuendos, the pair remains quite formal with each other, and sparks fail to fly. Upon their arrival at the ranch, however, Isabella is introduced to Lucia, Rafael's distant relative, and her jealousy of Isabella makes for delicious conflict. The romance between Isabella and Rafael itself never transcends its initial formality, but that might be just fine with many blusher fans. (Feb.)
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Product Description

She thought her fate was sealed...

Isabella Montgomery's future looked bleak. Before her father died, he betrothed her to Juan Garcia, an old ranchero infamous for cruelty. Now, shut away in a convent, she dreaded the day he would come to claim her. Until a dark horse revealed her true destiny...

Rafael McKenzie needed a bride before he came into his inheritance. The moment he laid eyes on Isabella, he knew she was the one. Breaking into the convent and capturing her was easy enough, but stealing her heart was another story....

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Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 352 KB
• Print Length: 384 pages
• Publisher: HQN Books (January 2, 2008)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B00134D6XK
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #94,469 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Just say no..., February 12, 2008

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DonnaRee15 (Somewhere in my head...in IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Bride (Mass Market Paperback)

I couldn't even finish this book it was so horribly written. The 2 main characters were dry. Rafael was way too autocratic and Isabella's character was too wishy-washy. I realize she'd have conflicting feelings after being in a convent for 4 years when it came to a man who attracted her, but I think the author took it too the extreme. So much so you weren't sure what was going on anymore. Rafael was stiff and demanding (you'd think alpha male in a good way since it's romance, but no...).

Maybe the book got better at the half-way point (which is where I had to put it down), but I had so much trouble getting that far it didn't matter to me how the book turned out because it wasn't worth wasting my time and sanity to get through to the end.

I've read 2 of Ms. Davidson's previous books and I know for sure that I finished them and I must have not thought they were too bad otherwise I'd remember. But this one...(shaking my head) I always remember the ones I can't bring myself to finish.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars An ok read but not her best, March 3, 2008

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Alisha Driggers - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Bride (Mass Market Paperback)

I love Carolyn Davidson books but this particular book was not one of her best. The two main characters Rafeal Mckenzie and Isabella were just to bland. Nothing really exciting about them. The story just seem to drag on and on and it felt like Carolyn was repeating herself throughout the whole story. If you are a first time reader of her books please dont pick this one. She really is one of my favorite authors but this one book could not even keep me capitavated like all her others.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars If I Could Give It -5 Stars, I Would, July 28, 2009

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T. Baxter (Arlington, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Bride (Mass Market Paperback)

Horrible! Absolutely horrible!!

Now, usually I can stomach my way through a badly written book with relatively boring characters if it has a good and interesting storyline...BUT I cannot stomach when the heroine is an all-out idiot, which ultimately results in a stupid storyline! Headstrong? I can live with that. Makes a couple of silly, avoidable mistakes? We all do it. But Isabella is simply beauty without brains. She's wishy-washy, boring, easily manipulated, and just plain dumb. I couldn't take it. I had to throw the book across the room when the depths of her stupidity were revealed and I will not be picking it back up.

Plus, it drags on FOREVER!! There are a bunch of unnecessary, uninteresting, and simply redundant details that makes this book a hard read.

Now, this is my first Carolyn Davidson book, but seeing as all of my favorite authors have released a bad book or two out of the many they've published, I will give her another chance. But man...this was a BAD start...