The Wedding Duel The Dueling Pistols Series Book 1 edition by Katy Madison Romance eBooks
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A charming Regency-era tale of a duel, a dilemma, and undeniable desire...
A Holt Medallion nominee for Best First Book
First published by Kensington Publishing Corp.
THE WEDDING DUEL
It was meant to be a duel like any other—defend a lady's reputation, teach a scamp a lesson in honor, and win the day. But from the first moment Keene Davies raises the cursed pistol things go awry. The shot goes astray, he wounds his best friend, and his displeased father threatens to disinherit him—unless he marries a scandalous little hoyden named Sophie.
Unbeknownst to Keene, Sophie Farthing has grown into a lovely young woman, albeit one still inclined to fall into scrapes. Her high spirits and tendency to ride hell bent for leather lead her into more than one disaster, but she's bound to make the most of this unexpected marriage to Keene. She's determined to teach her husband that honor begins with the heart, not the handle of a pistol, and that passion should go hand in glove with love...
The Wedding Duel The Dueling Pistols Series Book 1 edition by Katy Madison Romance eBooks
Not a single character in this book had any sense whatsoever. Nobody could be as ignorant, naive and clueless as Sophie, the heroine. Her parents' stupidity leaves you speechless. Then we come to Keene, the hero. Assumption after assumption with lack of communication and misunderstandings galore.I don't even want to address his so-called friends and their behaviors.
The premise had a lot of potential but it was sorely wasted by this author. I have never read a book so replete with such moronic characters. I mean really, who challenges his best friend to a duel without first trying to resolve it through genuine and sincere communication?!
I hate to be dragged through an entire book like this only to have what little resolution there is going to be happen in the very last few pages!
Also, way too much time was spent on the friends with almost no development of romance between the hero and heroine. The declarations of love at the end just weren't believable.
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The Wedding Duel The Dueling Pistols Series Book 1 edition by Katy Madison Romance eBooks Reviews
OMG! I thought I would never finish this book. It was not a bad story it's just that the characters made me want to shake them to death. Nobody actually talks to anyone about what they think is the truth in the situations. Quite frustrating! Keene thinks his new wife is pregnant with another man's child because her parents told him so. She's actually a virgin and can't understand why he won't make love to her (he waits 3 months-idiot!). He is waiting for her to tell him the truth and not lie about it being his child. In the meantime one of his longtime (George) friend's wife was pregnant with another man's child (their other friend Victor is the father) and he is acting out in the worst possible way. Oh my word, the storylines could not be more complicated or tangled than in this book. The author keeps them all going at the same time with skill (hence the 4 star rating) but the characters frustrated me so much that I had to keep putting the book down. The author pulls it all together at the end and makes a fine, if surprising, ending.
It's an okay read. Free was a good price for it.
I will admit, I almost gave up on the book, but the melodrama lured me further and further into the book.
However, significant sections of the plot are driven by a combination of factor a) the heroine has been kept super ignorant b) her father is a super control freak who sees dirt and shame on everything c) the hero has a Past d) all his friends have Pasts and e) their circle of friends seriously needs new people.
Now add in a serious helping of Big Misunderstanding, and repeat any time you feel like the book might be winding down.
If Big Mis plots irritate you, you may want to give this one a past. It's melodramatic, which I found entertaining after a while.
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The whole thing where the hero is led to believe that his bride is not a virgin and possibly pregnant when he marries her, so he stays away from her so she can't pass the kid off as his, so he doesn't find out that she has never been with a man before until WAY TOO LATE in this book kind of wore on me. The heroine is seriously ignorant of the facts of life, and everyone assumes that someone else means something else when they say things. Every time you think it's going to get resolved, it gets dragged out more.
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I thought the story started out great but then it just turned horrible. I felt like I was a child watching a Abbot and Costello movie of who's on first. There are plenty of misunderstandings with no real solutions. This author needs a lot of work to write a mature book. The characters are simple, childish and underwhelming. I did not like the H or h at all. I felt they were both childish especially Sophie. All and all a painful read, I just couldn't finish.
This is a good read, if one can get pass the ignorance of the heroine. Many factors are at play here. Many characters are well drawn and their emotional conflicts well written and engaging. The author shows that she knows how to develop conflict and add depth to characters. She will do so with absolute finesse in The Wedding Runaway. This is a good start to the series.
I read this because I had read The Wedding Runaway and I liked that one; however, I have mixed feelings about this book. I felt that Sophie was just not naive, but, at times, plain stupid. No young lady, no matter how sheltered, could be that ignorant. Also, her parents were just as unbelievably stupid.
Another reviewer said this book was all about sex, but you won't be reading a lot of sex scenes as implied and the wait for the first one is quite long. The author can write, she just badly wrote the heroine in this one. Thankfully the glimpses we have of Sophie in The Wedding Runaway show her as a more mature lady.
The heroine aside, the author weaves more than one plot into her story with just the right balance. There is no 'wake up one day and they're in love' scenario. The male leads are strong without being too macho and the emotions are palpable. The discord between George and his wife is heartbreaking, Victor matures through the novel, which is a good set up for his own The Wedding Runaway. Things work out, yet the ending is not too neat. I look forward to more from this author.
Not a single character in this book had any sense whatsoever. Nobody could be as ignorant, naive and clueless as Sophie, the heroine. Her parents' stupidity leaves you speechless. Then we come to Keene, the hero. Assumption after assumption with lack of communication and misunderstandings galore.
I don't even want to address his so-called friends and their behaviors.
The premise had a lot of potential but it was sorely wasted by this author. I have never read a book so replete with such moronic characters. I mean really, who challenges his best friend to a duel without first trying to resolve it through genuine and sincere communication?!
I hate to be dragged through an entire book like this only to have what little resolution there is going to be happen in the very last few pages!
Also, way too much time was spent on the friends with almost no development of romance between the hero and heroine. The declarations of love at the end just weren't believable.
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