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Married To A Stranger (2011)

by Louise Allen(Favorite Author)

3.47 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0263888045 (ISBN13: 9780263888041)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Mills & Boon

series

Danger and Desire (Shipwreck)

review 1: This book was just so much BLAH!!! There was just not much of a plot, at all! I couldn't believe that within the first chapter the guy proposes! The author couldn't have dragged out a little bit of a courtship there? At all?? Give me a break! The rest of the book was all about them adjusting to being married to each other and I tell you what..... it was pretty darn boring. There was no plot, beyond that... at all... I had no clue this was the third book in a series and you may think that I may have enjoyed it more reading the first two, but I assure you..... I would not... This book needed some serious editing.
review 2: DNF.When she was seventeen, the heroine became engaged to the hero's twin brother who then traveled to India wihtout her to seek his fo... morertune.TEN YEARS later, her betrothed (still not husband) died in a storm on the ocean (no body found, so I suspect he may rise again later on in the story. Just a suspicion, not a fact since I didn't finish the story).TEN YEARS. Do I need to say it again? Engaged for TEN YEARS. The best years of her life, her betrothed out of the country. She'd long fallen out of love with the man (eeee-gads, she hadn't seen him in TEN YEARS) but didn't have the courage to tell him to either come home and wed her or she'd call off the betrothal.So she's now twenty-seven years old - an on the shelf spinster without any other beaus to cultivate. Her fiance failed to mention her in his will (don't think that's required for an intended, even one who has waited TEN YEARS) so she has no income, a mother and worthless brother (a vicar) to support and a bunch of debts that need to be paid. (What the heck was she living on for TEN YEARS???). She knows that without a man to support her, or the promise of a betrothal, she will have to find a job to support herself and her dependents - because she is too proud to ask her was-supposed-to-become-her-rich-brother-in-law-Earl for assistance after waiting TEN YEARS for a promise never to be fulfilled.The hero, her fiance's twin, asks for her hand in marriage. He is still sunk in guilt and grief over the death of his brother. He had promised his brother he would take care of the heroine if anything ever happened to him. He thinks she is still in love with his brother, but wants to secure her future and pay her debts and take care of her dependents, help her brother find a decent living.Does she use a healthy dose of common sense, swallow her pride, and say, "Thank-you very much! You are my hero! Yes, please. We've known each other since we were children. I'm certain we can make this work somehow. Yes, I will marry you." No, of course not.Sorry, but I can't imagine a senseable woman with so much to lose would say no to an old family friend who has offered her the answer to all of her needs. Not only that, she's attracted to him, not repulsed. So what's the problem with saying yes?Anyway, she doesn't act her age or behave sensibly, or intelligently. And the hero is still so wrapped up in his grief, six month after his brother's death, his emotions don't make sense. Can a person experience blazing desire while wrapped up in the deep depression of grief? I don't think he's be able to "rise" to the occassion. And yet he lusts after the heroine.I moved on to another story where the characters' behavior was more intelligent, or at least more logical than this pair. less

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