Wizard's Daughter (Bride Series) [Mass Market Paperback]

Catherine Coulter (Author)

Book Description

Series: Bride Series | Publication Date: December 18, 2007

With characters from the Sherbrooke novels and a paranormal twist, Catherine Coulter delivers a sensational novel of a woman at the center of a centuries-old mystery and the man who will help her unravel the secrets of her heart.

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"One of the greatest authors today." MyShelf.com "A one-of-a-kind author who knows how to hook her readers and keep them coming back for more." -- Best Reviews

About the Author

Catherine Coulter is the author of the New York Times-bestselling FBI thrillers The Cove, The Maze, The Target, The Edge, Riptide, Hemlock Bay, Eleventh Hour, Blindside, Blowout, Point Blank, Double Take, TailSpin, KnockOut, and Whiplash. She lives in northern California. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Jove (December 18, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0515143944
• ISBN-13: 978-0515143942
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 5.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (75 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #125,431 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #11 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Romance > Authors, A-Z > ( C ) > Coulter, Catherine R.

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Catherine Coulter is the author of the New York Times-bestselling FBI thrillers The Cove, The Maze, The Target, The Edge, Riptide, Hemlock Bay, Eleventh House, Blindside, Blowout, Point Blank, Double Take and TailSpin. She lives in northern California.

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47 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Shockingly bad. Really, really poorly crafted., January 14, 2008

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K. Bingham "kirstieb" (Bath, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wizard's Daughter (Bride Series) (Mass Market Paperback)

I have previously been a fan of Catherine Coulter so I hope this is an aberration but I was SHOCKED at how badly written this was. We're not just talking about a poorly thought out plot or some quirky dialogue. This is a book that just doesn't come together on all levels. The characters are shallow and barely written at all. Other than the main heroine and hero, who you can distinguish, almost all the other characters sort of blend into mush. And the two main characters are barely fleshed out, with weirdly haphazard behavior. You don't have any idea of why they do what they do. Even the characters we know, the Sherbrookes, are almost not present. Technically they're there as their names appear, but you wouldn't know they're there by behavior or dialogue or any reference to previous books.

What's worse, the dialogue and the story are almost unintelligible. Not being mean here...it really just is sort of difficult to figure out not only why people do what they do but what they're doing in the first place.

The impression I got was that Ms. Coulter put so much time into envisioning the mystery of the two main characters, where they came from and of other world of "The Pale" that she sort of forgot about the actual story. There is VERY LITTLE ROMANCE!!! It's not that there isn't any chemistry between the two characters...any sort of opportunity for chemistry is just passed over and written off casually. It just doesn't exist! There's no anticipation, no enjoyment of the relationship, nothing. As if the romance is not just secondary, but unnecessary.

The book feels distant and disjointed and utterly unready for publication. If I didn't know better, I'd think that this was someone's juvenile freshman effort, not the work of a seasoned, well loved writer.

You'll be disappointed. Don't buy this book. If you do, you've been warned.

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good and bad, January 13, 2008

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C. Cox "MarineMom" (Georgetown, Kentucky United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wizard's Daughter (Bride Series) (Mass Market Paperback)

This is my first Catherine Coulter book so I came into it with no expectations at all. And to just sum it all up at the outset I have to say she's a really good writer who loses her way.

It starts off great. I totally enjoyed Rosalind and Nicholas meeting and their interactions with each other and the others. The banter was witty and it was shaping up to be a really good historical romance with shades of the paranormal. Just enough to make it interesting. I thought it flowed well and the love scenes were just different enough to make them interesting so I didn't skim right through it. So all in all a good read.

Until I reached chapter 49 and realized that the book was almost done and there was lots and lots of stuff not yet resolved. And I knew in my heart that there wasn't enough time for her to explain all the mysteries and bring it to a satisfactory conclusion. And, unfortunately, I was right. Either the book needed to be longer or she should have cut out some of the otherworldly "land of the Pale" elements in the book. It was too convoluted a world to try and explain in the short chapters at the end of the book. If she was going to do that kind of fantasy she should have started much earlier in the story. And there were definitely too many things left hanging. Like who shot at Nicholas?

And yet... in spite of all that I liked the first two thirds of the book enough that I can't say it's a bad book. I just wish the ending had been better thought out and not so rushed.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Waste of Time & Money, January 7, 2008

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Maggie "mags" (Jasper, GA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wizard's Daughter (Bride Series) (Mass Market Paperback)

I usually love Catherine Coulter's historical novels and cannot put them down. Was thrilled to hear that the Sherbrook family would be re-visited, & could hardly wait to get to the store to purchase it. Where I normally cannot put her books down, I was having a hard time plodding thru this one. She had some excellent would be potential villains the half brothers, but far too much space was taken up with mythological Wizards & Witches pages which were to say the least just down right boring, & jumbled up garbage. For anyone who is new to her novels, I would recommend they spend there money on her earlier historicals.