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Title: The Hostage Bride
ISBN: 0553578901
Author:
Jane Feather
Publicate Date: 1998-06-01
Publish: 1998-06-01
List Price: $7.99
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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1: cute, but not groundbreaking
This book was a cute, sweet and very typical story. We've heard it all before, girl has bad upbrining, finds outlaw (who really isn't an outlaw) falls in love and had to choose who she is loyal too. Mistakes are made and mean things are said. There is nothing new or unique to the plot of this book. I will mostlikly not be continuing with the Bride trilogy.
That said, this book was a nice book to read, there was nothing that made be really want to put it down for good, but also nothing to keep it on my collection.
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2: The Hostage Bride
The book was an excellent choice.I can hardly wait to read the other 2 books that connect with this one.
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3: First of an English Civil War series - good one-time read
At the beginning of this book we meet the three young girls who are the heroines of this series: Portia, Phoebe and Olivia. This introductory scene appears in all three books, just in case anyone's missed it.Portia is the bastard daughter of the Marquis of Granville's bastard brother. When her father dies, Granville offers her a home within his household, but he isn't that interested in her, and his wife, Diana, makes it clear that she is to be an extra servant, helping take care of the infant children. Olivia, Granville's daughter from an earlier marriage, befriends Portia, however. An old enemy of the Granville household, Rufus Decatur, former Earl of Rothbury, has sworn revenge on the family of the man who was responsible for his father's death and disgrace. Olivia is to be kidnapped and used as a bargaining tool. However, a mistake is made and Portia is kidnapped instead. Rufus isn't sure what to do with her, so he keeps her prisoner. However, Portia then decides that she wants to train and to join his militia as a soldier - even though she knows that Rufus intends to attack her uncle's household! That part was difficult to swallow; war is a serious business, and even if Portia isn't particularly loyal to either King or Parliament, the thought of striking against her uncle's home, and especially her cousin, should surely not have come so easily to her. Like another reviewer, I wasn't convinced by the 'falling in love' part of the book, and the resolution in particular was unconvincing. Finally, Rufus at one point used the term 'bourgeoisie'. Isn't early seventeenth-century England a little early for that term to be in common currency, since it's normally associated with the French revolution?
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4: loved it
i loved this book it had alot of elements that make up my kind of book. i mean Portia was not classically beautiful but had fire in her which made for great dialogue between her and the mischievious Rufus, i think miss Feather did a good job on this one.
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5: A WILLING HOSTAGE?
THE HOSTAGE BRIDE is the first in the "Bride" trilogy by Jane Feather, followed by THE ACCIDENTAL BRIDE, then THE LEAST LIKELY BRIDE.THE HOSTAGE BRIDE is the story of Portia, one of three friends who vow together to always remain friends and to never get married. Portia is a "double-bastard" teenager who wants to be a soldier and wants nothing to do with men in the biblical sense. When her father dies, Portia is taken in by her uncle, Cato Granville, a rich Marquis and his wife, Diana. Portia becomes an inseparable, good friend to Cato's daughter, Olivia; but while she is clothed and fed by the Granvilles, she is treated as the bastard niece that she is. THE HOSTAGE BRIDE takes a major turn when Rufus Decatur, sworn enemy of the Marquis, attempts to kidnap the Marquis' daughter, Olivia, but accidentally kidnaps Portia instead. A relationship develops between Rufus and Portia that neither anticipated, but neither can deny. This is an excellent book is about friendship, loyalties, civil strife, passion and romance.
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