The Wedding Season: Much Ado About Nuptials\The Gentleman Takes a Bride (Love Inspired Historical) [Mass Market Paperback]

Deborah Hale (Author), Louise M. Gouge (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Love Inspired (June 7, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 037382873X
• ISBN-13: 978-0373828739
• Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 4.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,158,489 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great story, beautifully told, October 1, 2011

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Michelle Helliwell (Nova Scotia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Wedding Season: Much Ado About Nuptials\The Gentleman Takes a Bride (Love Inspired Historical) (Kindle Edition)

I will be the first to admit that I had no idea what to expect when I picked up The Wedding Season. It's from Harlequin's Love Inspired Historicals line, which according to Harlequin, blend romance and faith. Honestly, that's not something I'd typically read, but when Deborah Hale's name is on the cover, that's all the incentive I need to read a story, so I dug in, and I am sooooo glad I did. This might be one of my favorite stories by her, and that is saying a lot.

This is a story not so much about pride and prejudice, but prejudice itself. The hero, Sebastian, is a Viscount who had been trapped in a loveless marriage by a pretty face. Now free of it, he turns his back on love, and turns his efforts to ensuring his brother makes a better match. The woman who has secured his brother's affections is a pretty girl of modest means - so much like his first wife and Sebastian does everything in his power to stop the match. In doing so, he meets Rebecca Beaton, the governess of the woman who might be his sister-in-law. The Viscount's impervious and stern manor does not enamor him to Rebecca, but the two of them learn that each are, good people, both hurt by episode in their past, and that forgiveness is the only way forward.

What I enjoyed about this is the romantic tension - and there was, in this compact novella, Much Ado about Nuptials. This is what I read romance novels for, and if that's your thing, you'll find it here.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Read!, June 14, 2011

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Jutzie (Surprise, AZ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Wedding Season: Much Ado About Nuptials\The Gentleman Takes a Bride (Love Inspired Historical) (Mass Market Paperback)

Much Ado About Nuptials by Deborah Hale 6/12/11

Sebastian has come to break up the marriage plans his brother Claude has made, as he has always done. Sebastian sees all women after money and uncaring. He is pleased when the woman in the garden promises she will never marry her brother. When telling his brother he discovers it was not his betrothed but her companion.

Rebecca and Sebastian try to convince the other to see the marriage from their side of it. After Sebastian shares his story with her, Rebecca realizes that he is comparing all women to the one who betrayed him.

Great story!

The Gentleman Takes a Bride Louise M. Gouge 6/12/11
Captain Thomas Mobley's children are grown and his daughter Elizabeth has her eyes set on someone of the peer. When Philip Lindsey burst into the church and stops her cousins wedding she has trouble keeping her eyes off him and constantly tells herself he is not a peer.

Her father invites the young man to stay with them until the matter of her cousins betrothed can be settled. Being already in a marriage contract to Lucy Lindsey he has taken her dowry early.

This book is about the different stages people are at in the English aristocracy, love and forgiveness. Of those who want power and those who want nothing to do with it. I enjoyed all the books in Louise's series.

5.0 out of 5 stars The Wedding Season, July 16, 2011

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Lollipops "lollipops5" (Arkansas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Wedding Season: Much Ado About Nuptials\The Gentleman Takes a Bride (Love Inspired Historical) (Mass Market Paperback)

Wedding bells will ring in these romantic Regency stories...

THE WEDDING SEASON is a set of two stories set in England, during the Regency period.

Much Ado About Nuptials by Deborah Hale - Sebastian Stanhope is plagued with a jaded heart due to an unfortunate error he made when he was younger. He's determined not to let his brother, Claude make the same mistake--and so he tries to break up the marriage Claude seems to be rushing into. He tries to convince the brides companion, Rebecca Beaton, into helping him in his plans, but she seems determined to encourage the pair--and show Sebastian the meaning of love.

The Gentleman Takes a Bride by Louise M. Gouge - Elizabeth Moberly is determined to marry a peer, and so she can't possibly be attracted to the stranger who rode in to break up her cousin's marriage. Yet, Philip Lindsey seems to have a tender heart and a strong faith. Will Philip be able to convince Elizabeth that the only title she needs is Mrs. Lindsey?

THE WEDDING SEASON is a charming story set during the Regency period, portraying two different couples finding love. Ms. Hale is a new debut author, and I'm looking forward to reading other books by this talented author. And Ms. Gouge is a talented author and I've read all her books to date. Ms. Gouge's story is a continuance of her other stories set in America during the Revolutionary War, including characters (this time in the role of parents) who were in her previous books.

If you are looking for a great Regency, then THE WEDDING SEASON is a book that you'll definitely want to read. And since it released during the month of June--the traditional wedding month--you'll definitely want to read it soon. Discussion questions are included.