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 enlarge | Author: Celeste Bradley
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 40407
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.2 x 1.6
ISBN: 031293968X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780312939687
ASIN: 031293968X
Publication Date: March 4, 2008
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 Not bound for the "Keeper Shelf" June 2, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book was entertaining enough, but it wasn't that great. I really disliked the use of modern lingo - it was jarring to hear Rafe talk about rockets.
Also, once the heroine realized the big mistake she made, she really ought to have corrected it immediately. It really didn't speak highly of her character.
Don't think I'll complete the series.
 Just okay May 20, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I had high hopes for this book, but it was tough for me to get through. I just found the male to be boring and the storyline was really flat for me. I had bought the second in the series before reading this book, and I just can't bring myself to read it because I was so let down by the first.
It's all very silly, and not very believable May 16, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
There are so many things in this book that are just wrong. Who proposes marriage to a woman he has never met? And who accepts a marriage proposal that isn't presented face-to-face? With no wooing? And discovering the proposal is from the wrong person, then says nothing and agrees to go through with it. To the wrong person. In two weeks. How silly.
And without giving away the ending... how completely preposterous. It would't work. Not like that. How completely silly.
The book is kind of fun. It is a light read, and a page turner, but it is mostly just silly.
 Surprising Twist on an Old Set-Up May 5, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Yeah, yeah we've all been here before--young, beautiful girl needs to find husband of nobility so goes to balls, riding on Rotten Row, etc. But this author has added a delightful twisteroo in that the female MUST find a Duke because there is a potful of gold at the end of the rainbow if she does. Her motivation increases when she realizes the money means as much as freedom for her and a chance at being her own person rather than just an armpiece. What bad could happen when she realizes the benefit of marrying a duke, one she meets at a party and is attracted to as well? So when he comes to call the next day to ask for her hand....well let's just say "The Prince and the Pauper" or the "Man in the Iron Mask" comes to mind. Great fun rooting for the good "Duke" and wondering what the lead female's choice will really be.
Yummy hero but average romance May 2, 2008
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Phoebe is on a quest. She and her cousins are racing against each other to marry a Duke and gain an inheritance left by their grandfather. Phoebe notices Rafe's manly bum as he is dancing and finds his form and face quite breathtaking.
Rafe spies Phoebe and within a few minutes he decides she is the one for him. He points Phoebe out to his legitimate and soon to be Duke brother Calder. This proves to be a mistake because Calder has decided that Phoebe is the one for him. This is done only to antagonize and hurt his brother. It was really really hard to like Calder.
Phoebe receives a proposal the day after meeting Rafe and is convinced that he is the one proposing and instantly says yes. She is dismayed to discover that it is Calder who is the legitimate brother and reluctantly agrees to wed him.
Phoebe is controlled by others. Her father desperately wants the match. Also she does not want to disappoint him again as she did when she ran off with her dancing master ten years earlier.
Rafe is distraught. He must bear stoically the upcoming nuptials and wonders if he will ever get over Phoebe. He desperately wants this engagement to end. Not only does he want Phoebe to cry off, but several others do also and their machinations come to play in this novel.
Rafe is a great hero. Celeste Bradley does a wonderful job of letting the reader feel his emotions. His background is less that respectable but he is trying to reform. He really steals the show. Phoebe is an okay heroine. She lacks a backbone throughout much of the novel. When she finally sees the light, she and Rafe are quite the steamy couple, but this occurs late in the story and, for me, there just was not a lot of quality time these two spent together to convince me that they were madly in love. It seemed as if Phoebe spent most of her time with Calder rather than her true love Rafe.
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