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Title: The Marriage Contract by Cathy Maxwell ISBN: 0-380-80833-1 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 February, 2001 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.15 (13 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: An Enjoyable Read
Comment: The story starts with an orphan women being practically sold off to an unsuspecting bride groom in Scotland. The groom Aiden was the laird of a clan in the highlands. The real fun begins when the bride and groom meet accidentally in the wilds of the Scotland. This story is how the two main characters, Anne and Aiden, come to terms with their marriage. If Aiden would only stop trying to get Anne to leave and listen to his own heart. Things would go better for them both. I liked how the clan women had already thought to marry Aiden off so that their own men would follow his example. The political strife intertwined within the story also keeps you guessing.
The main idea is it was time for the man to grow up and stop playing little boy games. He needed to learn that there could be many ways to solve a problem. Not always with force. I enjoyed this book and would read more written by Cathy Maxwell.
Rating: 5
Summary: An amusing and well-written romance
Comment: The Ton considers her two seasons in London as failures because Anne Burnett failed to make a match. Anne set an apparently impossible goal for an orphan like herself: she wanted to marry for love instead of securing her future.
Anne is forced to marry by proxy some obscure Scottish lunatic, Mad Earl Tiebauld, Aidan Black, whose sister arranged the marriage. Anne travels to her new home only to receive a very unfriendly welcome by her spouse, who not only rejects her, but he wants her back in London. However, the English transplant ignores the irritable Scot and soon her actions gain the respect and support of his clan. To her chagrin, Anne also captures Aidan's black heart just as she now loves him too, but will he wisely keep her at his side or madly cling to his notion she belongs in England?
THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT is an amusing well written Regency romance starring two charming and not so mad (except in love) lead characters. When the story line stays with the main plot the battle of the sexes, it is an absolute delight that will provide fans with a powerfully pleasurable read. However, a political subplot, though cleverly inserted and actually tied back to the prime theme, will feel intrusive because the convincing main tale is so good and so much fun. Cathy Maxwell shows why her historicals are so well received by reviewers and fans with this fabulous Regency novel.
Harriet Klausner
Rating: 3
Summary: Pleasant Romantic Adventure
Comment: Even the worst Cathy Maxwell book is worth reading, so when I say that The Marriage Contract is not as good as the previous two books in this trilogy, Married in Haste and A Scandalous Marriage, I do not mean it should be avoided.
Just know that it is not as witty, entertaining and passionate as Cathy Maxwell's other books. Still, she creates fully rounded characters in the persons of Anne Burnett, a failed debutante, and Aidan Black, a strong independent man who is laird of a beautiful castle in the Scottish Highlands.
Anne is sent to Aidan as his bride by proxy, yet the last thing he wants is to marry. The novel is the story of how they come to love each other and to fight together against the unjust English land clearances. It is a pleasant and interesting adventure.
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Title: A Scandalous Marriage by Cathy Maxwell ISBN: 0380808323 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Married in Haste by Cathy Maxwell ISBN: 0380808315 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 03 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Falling in Love Again by Cathy Maxwell ISBN: 0380787180 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: When Dreams Come True by Cathy Maxwell ISBN: 0380797097 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Wedding Wager by Cathy Maxwell ISBN: 0380818329 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 30 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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