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The Bargain Bride (2009)

by Barbara Metzger(Favorite Author)

3.24 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0451228456 (ISBN13: 9780451228451)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Signet

review 1: This was my first time reading Ms. Metzger's book so I didn't know what to expect. However, I was very dissapointed with the herion of the story Penny she was always angry, mean spirited, revengful and she acted like a 5 year old having a temper tantrum. She was betroth at 13 by her father, who just wanted her to married into a titled family. So 13 years later the hero West has come for her in hopes she will cry off the marriage, but the two of them are forced to marry, because of the contract between their two fathers. West's father is dead but Penny's father will not let them brake the betrothal contract. So she takes it all out on West instead of her father. Poor West tries to make the best of the marriage which make him come of henpecked and weak, but Penny wants love;... more but her character is written where she is just not loveable and for me this just didn't make sense. She really got on my nerves!!!
review 2: This book had some of the stereotypical elements of historical romance books. The main premise is an arranged marriage of a young girl with a large dowry to a member of the ton whose family has had financial hardship. The girl is young enough that it is an engagement for 13 years until she turns 26 and her father is pushing for the actual marriage. At this point the young girl has become jaded towards her fiance and wishes to dissolve the engagement. The groom is in agreement.Due to circumstances set by her father the engagement cannot be undone and does indeed occur. Eventually they figure out that they love each other. That's about it. During the last 20 pages or so the author tries to throw in a conflict in order to make the whole story more interesting. I found this conflict not to be plausible and was a complete distraction at best. I ended up skimming through it in order to get to the end. less

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