The Winter Bride
Books | Fiction / Romance / Historical / Regency
4.2
Anne Gracie
"Delightful....A romantic winner." —Kirkus Four young women face a life of destitution—until a daring act changes their fortune and turns them each into a beautiful bride. In The Winter Bride, a compromising situation leads to an unexpected wedding and delicious temptation....Damaris Chance’s unhappy past has turned her off the idea of marriage forever. But her guardian, Lady Beatrice Davenham, convinces her to make her coming out anyway—and have a season of carefree, uncomplicated fun. When Damaris finds herself trapped in a compromising situation with the handsome rake Freddy Monkton-Coombes, she has no choice but to agree to wed him—as long as it’s in name only. Her new husband seems to accept her terms, but Freddy has a plan of his own: to seduce his reluctant winter bride. Will Damaris’s secrets destroy her chance at true happiness? Or can Freddy help her cast off the shackles of the past, and yield to delicious temptation?
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Author
Anne Gracie
Pages
336
Publisher
Penguin
Published Date
2014-04-01
ISBN
9781101637500 1101637501
Ratings
Google: 4
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"2.5 rounded up. I really liked this book until the last 20%, and then all the handwaving away plot, conflict wrapping up too quickly and neatly to really feel as if there was any stakes at all… not to mention the spoon feeding of the symbolism. I did like the way they handled her sexual assault, but I absolutely hated the conversation around virginity and possession that happened in the middle of all of it. It felt a little icky. There was also a moment where the male lead implied that the female lead’s sexual assault was worse because she was English, as if the repeated violent rape of a Chinese girl wasn’t as much of a crime. Get ******, Anne Gracie."
Carolyn V