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The Wedding Chase

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This book was lyrical and oh so fun! I couldn't put it down and ended up reading the entire book in two days! I cannot wait until Rebecca Kelley comes out with her next book. The characters in the Wedding Chase are a hoot and you find yourself cringing and chuckling for them, not to mention falling in love with them! FIVE STARS ALL THE WAY!

I couldn't be bothered to finish the book. The characters were highly boring. The author tries to make them interesting by giving them eccentric personalities that border on the annoying. I agree with an earlier review that Wolfgang's curses seem unique at first, but are eventually highly grating on the nerves.

Wolfgang Hardwicke, the Earl of Northcliffe, is not known for coming to the rescue of stupid young bucks. Instead his reputation is along the lines of being one of aristocratic England's leading rakes and ne'er do wells. So how Wolfgang got involved in the affairs of drunken Robin Fleetwood even he doesn't know. Still, he rescues the lad from a beating and takes him home. His reward for his out of character altruism is a glimpse of Robin's sister, Grizelda in her nightware.

Though Zel prefers to never marry because she does not want to be owned by a male, she knows that she has no choice due to her weak sibling and father. Zel is their only hope to stay out of debtor's prison so she plans to marry the a wealthy but extremely weak nobleman. However, Zel and Wolfgang fall in love with each other, an emotion neither wants at this time.

Rebecca Kelley proves that she belongs at the top rung of Regency romance writers with her fine work, THE WEDDING CHASE. Zel and Wolfgang make a musical couple, who will provide much joy to fans of the sub-genre. The secondary players cause much of the problems confronting the lead pair and help make for an intriguing story line, albeit that remains tucked neatly inside the limits of the sub-genre. In spite of that, fans will realize that Ms. Kelley is a gifted author, heading to the top.

Harriet Klausner

The book starts out well enough, but became tiresome about a quarter of the way through. Although the plot is clever and lively at the start, "Wolfgang's" constant !!! use of bizarre oaths (e.g., "Satan's small clothes," "By Satan's Pointed Tail," "Lucifer's Cloven Hoof" - to name but a few) really became annoying after a while and got in the way of the story. Also, Lord Melboure's dialog written to demonstrate his exagerated lisp (which at times was difficult to decipher) also interrupted the flow of the story. Last but not least, the silly bedroom scene on the inevitable wedding night (I skipped ahead), complete with a jealous cat and Irish Wolfhound, was a bit much to believe.

I notice that other readers really liked this book, so perhaps I was looking for something different. Nonetheless, I prefer to like the main characters and found that difficult in this case.

I really enjoyed this book. I eagerly await the next one. It has some good one liners that make you laugh and that is what I like about a lot of new authors. A lot of the authors like Julie Garwood, Johanna Lindsey, Amanda Quick are losing the plot, their new books are not as good as the old ones, which is unfortunate. So we are forced to hunt the shelves for new blood. To all the new authors, please do not give up, keep them comming.

This non typical read was very well done. It had and intelligent story line and characters that left you laughing. Enjoyable from the first page to the last. The only bad thing about this book was the turning of the last page, it left me wanting for more.

I agree that the names of the characters are somewhat out of the ordinary and Wolf's expletives became annoying but the story was enjoyable. If you can get past the names and expletives, you'll enjoy this book.

This is a funny, wellwritten book,with sizzling romance and wellformed characters, which keeps you glued to the pages from the beginning to the end. I sincerely hope Ms Kelley can keep them coming.

I liked this book, but it really took me a while to get past the heroine's name. Grizelda--Zel. That has to be the most unattractive name I've run across in a romance. Usually the heroines have such lovely names. I'm assuming this was intentional, but I had a hard time getting a picture of an old, dowdy maiden aunt out of my head everytime I pictured "Zel". You can pick unusual names, just not ugly ones.