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    • Pub. Date: March 2006
    • 384pp
    • Sales Rank: 90,886

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      • Pub. Date: March 2006
      • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
      • Format: Mass Market Paperback, 384pp
      • Sales Rank: 90,886

      Synopsis

      An unwilling bride, a dangerous game of passion and a terrifying secret? Katharine Brandon is a girl with hair as red as a stormy sunset, whose fierce independence masks her loneliness. When powerful, sophisticated and restless nobleman Julien St Clair, Earl of March, sees her for the first time, he finds himself suddenly and thoroughly bewitched by this unusual young lady. But when he decides he wants her, he discovers that all is not what it seems.

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      The last nine Coulter titles have been New York Times bestsellers. When The Rebel Bride first hit the bookstores in 1979, it defied convention and stretched the Regency to the limit. Now Coulter has taken her masterpiece one step further--redone with more pageantry and splendor than ever before. Reissue.

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      Coulter's 1979 historical romance features ladies and noblemen and the usual trappings common to the genre. Coulter has had a string of best-selling novels, so this should prove quite popular. Copyright 2003 Cahners Business Information.

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      Catherine Coulter is the author of numerous historical romances, including the Bride series, and contemporary romantic thrillers, including the popular FBI series.

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      Rebel Brideby Anonymous

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      January 05, 2008: Eh.. liked it, but I wouldn't necessarily say it's to-die-for. I mean, it had it's moments, for me, but I guess, this book [out of the ones I've read from her so far] falls under the 'like' category for me. It's not a bad read, and it's definitely not a horrible read, it just didn't tickle my fancy.

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      February 17, 2006: Apparently rape is a fairly common theme for Catherine Coulter. In this story, St. Claire becomes infatuated with Katharine, who becomes a friend, and imagines she's attracted to him as well. She's petrified by the thought of intimacy due to a childhood rape, which she doesn't remember. Her religious father beats her frequently and unmercifully, blaming her for the rape. St. Claire uses this as further justification to force her to marry him, buying her from her father, imprisoning her in London, tracking her down when she escapes to Paris, and then threatens to drug and marry her if she refuses to marry him while sentient. St. Claire decides not to press for consummation due to her fear, but since things don't progress, he kidnaps her, drugs her, and then rapes her (because he's so 'frustrated'), with the intent to disclose his identity afterward. During the act, he discovers she isn't a virgin, and is so angry that he decides to hurt her, tears her up, and mildly wonders afterward why there's blood since she isn't a virgin. The rape immediately triggers a waking nightmare of the childhood rape. He 'finds' her, tells her she's had an accident, and doesn't let her tell otherwise. Feeling somewhat responsible for her gruesome nightmares, he comforts her and slowly begins gaining her trust, but the nightmares get worse, she's pregnant, she seduces him to cover it and she feels guilty. He forces her to face the childhood rape, which results in miscarriage. He finally confesses all and they separate, and just as he's about to start back up with his mistress, she shows up, throws the mistress out, and things are hunky-dory. The secondary characters, except for the father and mistress, have no bearing on the story at all, even though quite a bit of time is spent on them. This isn't my first Catherine Coulter novel, but it'll be the last as there are too many better authors to spend time on stories such as this.


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