The Bride Says Maybe: The Brides of Wishmore Mass Market Author: Visit Amazon's Cathy Maxwell Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0062219278 | Format: EPUB
The Bride Says Maybe: The Brides of Wishmore Mass Market Description
Review
“[a] charming romance.” (RT Book Reviews 4 Stars)
About the Author
Cathy Maxwell spends hours in front of her computer pondering the question, "Why do people fall in love?" It remains for her the great mystery of life and the secret to happiness. She lives in beautiful Virginia with her children, horses, dogs, and cats.
- Series: Brides of Wishmore
- Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Avon (February 25, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0062219278
- ISBN-13: 978-0062219275
- Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 5.3 x 1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Lady Tara Davidson, once the toast of London has been brought down by scandal. Wanting nothing more than to marry for love, she had run from a brilliant match in London to come back to the Highlands to marry her childhood beau, the stable master. Unfortunately, the stable master had fallen in love with a lady of his class, and when she tried to get back with her wealthy fiancé he had fallen in love and married her sister!
Just when Tara didn’t think her life could get any more miserable or complicated, her dissolute father made an important announcement. He was “done in” and in order to keep himself out of debtors prison, had promised her hand in marriage to Breccan Campbell, the Beast of Aberfeld and laird of the valley’s most despised clan! Lordy, she may have to marry the beast but she definitely wouldn’t love him - or would she?
*** After having read the first book of this series – THE BRIDE SAYS NO – I wasn’t sure how I was going to feel about Lady Tara after she had acted like such a brat towards her fiancé and sister. However, I was very pleased right from the get-go that Breccan, her new husband, was no pushover - a down-to-earth brawny Scotsman, though I did have some concerns knowing how much Breccan had fallen in love with his lady wife.
Frankly, THE BRIDE SAYS MAYBE was a total delight! In the beginning I was happy to see the Tara get her comeuppance, but Ms. Maxwell toned Tara down and before very long, Maxwell brought forth in Tara a sweetness and innocence which gave me hope, especially since by then I wanted to see Breccan happy. Maxwell had fashioned Breccan to my way of thinking as the underdog, no matter his ‘beastly’ reputation. Breccan was a product of his environment, and Maxwell described it well.
The Bride says Maybe was a struggle for me to finish. The heroine was not that likable and the hero at first was not the most appealing character either.
Tara Davidson was a character in a previous novel in this series. I never read the earlier book but I can assume that Tara acted pretty rashly and rather selfishly when she jilted the man she was to marry to run back home and try to reunite with her true love, a stablemaster she left for the big city. This background never endeared her to me (she came across as flighty) and as the story progressed I found myself disliking her even more. Tara is vain and does not seem overly smart, I believe even when bored at her home she did not want to read books.
She has a drunkard as a father who sells her to Breccan Campbell to pay his debts. Breccan is a large built man (in every way as the author tells us several times). He feels he is ugly and his manners can be gruff. Initially he wants Tara as his wife solely for her beauty. He has barely had a conversation with her, knows very little about her personality but decides she is soooo beautiful that nothing else matters, he has to have her, then his peers and family will show him the respect he deserves.
Tara agrees to marry him but only if she can go back to London after she gives him his heir and spare and she has no compunction about leaving the children in Scotland so she can live the high life in London. Yeah she is a charmer. Breccan is desperate to marry her and agrees to this plan which made me wonder about his own selfishness, why would you marry a woman who does not want to be around your children and why subject your children to a mother who does not want them? Beauty sure had him blinded.
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