Customer Reviews

A Wedding Bouquet (Super Regency, Signet)

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Unfortunately, it's the lead story that I couldn't even finish. Patricia Oliver is capable of a better effort. The next three stories (Carla Kelly, Edith Layton, & Patricia Rice) were amusing regency stories with the usual impediments to romance: relatives and misunderstandings. The fifth story, by Anne Barbour, was interesting, but I felt that I had read some of the scenes before. In fact, in one scene the dialogue came straight from Georgette Heyer's "Cotillion".

Overall, enjoyable stories for fans of regency romance.

I really enjoyed the stories in this book. I disagree with one of the reviewers, who disliked the Oliver story. That story is actually one of my favorites in this anthology. I think Oliver writes well, and she packs a lot into the story for such a short one. If you like her Seven Corinthians story line with Signet, you'll like this one, too. The Earl and Countess of Mansfield from "Miss Drayton's Downfall" even make a brief appearance.

Also, you can't go wrong with Carla Kelly, whose story is, as expected, well-written and tugs at the heartstrings. The other stories are decent, but I wasn't a big fan of the Layton story.

*****

Description from the back of the book:

"Something Old" by Patricia Oliver

For a masquerade ball, an old wedding dress transforms a shy, lonely woman into a dazzling Queen Guinevere and brings her an enchanted Sir Lancelot.

"Something New" by Carla Kelly

A widow is surprised by two unexpected visitors at her sister's wedding - one breaks her heart and the other captures it forever.

"Something Borrowed" by Patricia Rice

When the bride-to-be leaves her fiance standing at the altar, her sister borrows the groom.

"Something Blue" by Edith Layton

A "blue" groom is torn between the woman to whom he is betrothed and a woman from his past.

"And a Sixpence for her Shoe" by Anne Barbour

A young woman counts on her lucky sixpence to bring her a marriage proposal from the man of her dreams.

I had to write a review because I disagree with the previous reviewer. The two stories she chose to belittle are my two favorites in the anthology. I can't imagine why she had any trouble reading "Something Old" by Patricia Oliver. Sure, most of us have read many stories in which the heroine is a young girl who has a painful experience at at ton gathering. But this time the girl has the extreme bad luck to fall in love at first sight with a cad who doesn't even notice! Ten years later they meet again. Is this a second chance at love? "And a Six Pence for Her Shoe" by Anne Barbour is a wonderful love story. The heroine waits for her fiance to return from war. She quarreled with him just before he left. Will he give her a chance to prove her love is true? The other stories were fine, but I found them less memorable. Read this anthology and see if you don't agree!

Was kind of boring and didn't hold my interest and the titles are not all that original have seen them all before!