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Title: The Hostage Bride by Jane Feather ISBN: 0553578901 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: June, 1998 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.57
Rating: 5
Summary: Enjoyable and fun to read!
Comment: I am new to reading Jane Feather's novels. The newest novel "The Least Likely Bride" caught my attention in the store. As I was looking at the review, I discovered it was part of a trilogy. I ordered "The Hostage Bride" from amazon and I finished it over the weekend! It was great to read about the characters, Portia & Rufus. Portia was great and I understand her need to settle conflict. I was cheering for them throughout the book.
I enjoyed reading from this time frame of the middle 1600's. It is so different than the modern day romance setting. I look forward to reading the sequel and the finally the third!
Rating: 3
Summary: NOT that great...
Comment: "The Hostage Bride" is the first book in Jane Feather's "Brides" trilogy. They are three girls who met when they were in their early teens and sweared that they would never get married and want to fulfil their own dreams in life.
"The Hostage Bride" tells the story of Portia and Rufus. They met when Rufus and his men ambushed Portia's party as they just were on their way to Cato's premise. Cato and Rufus had a family dispute since the times of their fathers. Portia was captured and released. Later she was mistakenly kipnapped by Rufus' men as they thought she was Cato's daughter. Their so-called romance began from there...
I am sorry to say that this is not the kind of romance novel I would want to re-read. In half of the book, Portia was away from Rufus. I don't know when they had fallen in love with each other as the time when both of them were together was so little. The bond of the three girls were also very frail. All in all, I don't see much chemistry between the characters, much lesser the two main ones. The ending was a bit funny as in was in the midst of a battle when Rufus and Portia declared their love and made their confessions. It was like the battle stopped for them.
I gave it three stars for the occasional humour. This is the kind of book that one can forgo. Diehard fans of Jane Feather can still read it.
Rating: 3
Summary: First of an English Civil War series - good one-time read
Comment: At the beginning of this book we meet the three young girls who are the heroines of this series: Portia, Phoebe and Olivia. This introductory scene appears in all three books, just in case anyone's missed it.
Portia is the bastard daughter of the Marquis of Granville's bastard brother. When her father dies, Granville offers her a home within his household, but he isn't that interested in her, and his wife, Diana, makes it clear that she is to be an extra servant, helping take care of the infant children. Olivia, Granville's daughter from an earlier marriage, befriends Portia, however.
An old enemy of the Granville household, Rufus Decatur, former Earl of Rothbury, has sworn revenge on the family of the man who was responsible for his father's death and disgrace. Olivia is to be kidnapped and used as a bargaining tool. However, a mistake is made and Portia is kidnapped instead. Rufus isn't sure what to do with her, so he keeps her prisoner.
However, Portia then decides that she wants to train and to join his militia as a soldier - even though she knows that Rufus intends to attack her uncle's household! That part was difficult to swallow; war is a serious business, and even if Portia isn't particularly loyal to either King or Parliament, the thought of striking against her uncle's home, and especially her cousin, should surely not have come so easily to her.
Like another reviewer, I wasn't convinced by the 'falling in love' part of the book, and the resolution in particular was unconvincing.
Finally, Rufus at one point used the term 'bourgeoisie'. Isn't early seventeenth-century England a little early for that term to be in common currency, since it's normally associated with the French revolution?
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Title: The Least Likely Bride by Jane Feather ISBN: 055358068X Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 03 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Accidental Bride by Jane Feather ISBN: 0553578960 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 06 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Widow's Kiss by Jane Feather ISBN: 0553581872 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 29 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: The Emerald Swan by Jane Feather ISBN: 0553575252 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: February, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Virtue by Jane Feather ISBN: 0553560549 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: August, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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