Seize Rose (Seven Brides, #1) Engineered By Leigh Greenwood Format Brochure
I wasnt crazy about this one at the beginning, There was a scene that was a complete ripoff from the movie Seven Brides for Seven Brothers one of my favorite movies, the best scene where the heroine .
However, given that the name of the title of this series is Seven Brides, I quit rolling my eyes and enjoyed George and Roses story.
Plus, there werent any more ripoffs this was an original story,
This romantic western, set right after the Civil War, is full of carpetbaggers, Indians, fighting brothers, cattle rustlers, family feuds and family secrets on both sides.
Ive noticed this before Mr, Greenwood is very good at writing dialogue for characters that are little boys causing, Zac Randolph age six to often steal the show, Im sure Ill continue with the series,
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sitelink sitelink sitelink sitelink sitelink sitelink Me encantooo! Un libro precioso,
Este es un libro de los “libros tesoros antiguos”, escrito con mucha dulzura, con una trama exquisita y sin necesidad de escenas de sexo que lo completen.
No había leído nada de este autor pero me ha enganchado completamente, por tanto iré de cabeza a leer el segundo título de esta serie.
Señalar que es la primera novela romántica escrita por un hombre que me gusta, porque si, Leigh Greenwood es un señor.
Quizás es casualidad que hasta ahora no haya dado con un autor masculino que me haya atrapado o solo cuestión de tiempo que mi lista se amplíe.
Ojalá así sea.
Los personajes también me gustaron muchísimo, tanto George y Rose como el resto de los hermanos, destacando a Zack,
En resumen ha sido una lectura muy completa que me ha hecho sentir muchas sensaciones buenas, por tanto la recomiendo totalmente,,DNFof the way through,
A major factor in my dropping this book is the instalove and the "romance" in it, Soon after they've met and he's recruited her to work for him, she's all "perilously close to falling in love with him, " What the hell You've known the guy for barely a full day, And then later when he says he wants to be in the army rather than marry and have children, she's all heartbroken and "disheartened" and "lost" and "like a ship whose rudder had been wrenched off in a collision with a hidden shoal" and that "her future yawned before her, empty and somehow dangerous.
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You've known the guy for two days, TWO DAYS,
Later she's all that she's "aware that her determination not to marry an army man was growing weaker, " Oh, and this is after he's already said he doesn't want to marry or have children,
The whole relationship so far feels so forced and Rose is so overly presumptuous about marrying George and things to do with George.
George, too, was all instaloving over her and it just had me rolling my eyes,
The entire "love" aspect of this novel felt so inorganic to me, There was absolutely no chemistry between the leads and it didn't feel at all real or believable, With that, all the moments and interactions with George and Rose felt overly forced and because there was so much dedicated to them it felt overly saturated.
A lot of it was also the author telling us rather than showing, This contributed to the forced factor of the entire "relationship" and I feel it took away from the book and my enjoyment of it.
I enjoyed the moments with the family and those interactions but I hated anything and everything to do with the two protagonists,
I think the author thought she was putting in sexual tension or pining but I didn't see any of that, Maybe if we'd been able to see the two main protagonists before they met one another seen their lives before the other came into it.
. . BUT, we don't. Right from the very beginning we have Rose checking George out as he walks into the restaurant, I was being told rather than shown all these things about their instalove,
Their entire romance feels as though they're being forced togetherlike I said, inorganicrather than allowing two characters to come together naturally, Me lleve una gran sorpresa al terminar el libro y enterarme que la autora era en realidad AUTOR, Nunca pensé que un hombre estaria detras de la serie Siete Novias, En realidad nunca pense que un hombre encontraria el gusto de escribir libros con romance, Esta serie me la encontre hace poco y me llamo muchisimo la atencion, Es entretenida y aunque el autor no es muy conocido merece una oportunidad,
Leído.
.estrellas que redondeo a tres porque la ambientación y el resto de personajes me han gustado,
Tal y como amenacé en mi primera reseña, más abajo, al final he terminado este libro, Más que nada para poder leer el segundo libro de esta saga, el cual ya tengo en mis estanterías,
Desde luego, dudo mucho que si no hubiese sido por eso, hubiese terminado esta lectura, Tarda bastante en despegar. Por lo menos en mi opinión, Los primeros capítulos me resultaron bastante tediosos y, creo, que hasta la mitad del libro, más o menos, no me he metido en la historia.
El tira y afloja del protagonista masculino, George, tampoco ha ayudado, Es personal, este cliché romántico no es de mi agrado, la verdad,
Luego, tiene otras cosillas por las que me he tenido que repetir: "contextualiza, Dashen, Contextualiza". Al final no ha sido tan grave como apuntaba al principio, Pero me ha costado todo lo relacionado con los nativos americanos y los forajidos, En fin.
Uf! No puedo con este libro, por el momento, Quizás más adelante lo retome,
Me estaba resultando terriblemente aburrido, Desde luego que no es el momento para participar en esta lectura conjunta,
Lo dejo en la página, Solo he llegado al capítulo cinco, . .
Como diría Berthilda: ja,
La edición que tengo es la de Manderley Santillana, publicada en el año, en formato de tapa dura, La ilustración de la cubierta es adecuada al subgénero y me gusta, la verdad, La traducción, de Pedro José Lama Lama, tenía fallos bastante graves, Por ejemplo: sustituir el imperativo por el infinitivo, Algo muy típico de mis compatriotas, pero que sorprende en alguien que se supone que se dedica a la traducción, Mal. Y eso que solo he llegado al capítulo cinco, I loved it. The struggle between the characters were, in my opinion, genuine, Rose is working in a restaurant where she is almost mauled in public by a guy and is thrown out because her father fought for the Union.
She is saved by George, who is troubled and scared of turning into his father, His father was a serial cheater whose scandal forced the family to flee to Texas, Not only that but he was also an uncaring jerk who beat his sons, Rose struggled against falling for a military man, She was convinced that he would turn out to be like her father, Rose saved their ranch from being taken over and George's Yankee hating brother found out about who her father was, She decided to return to Austin to avoid splitting up their family even though she loves George, A scandal forced George to wed Rose, They fight a bunch of homesteaders who are stealing their cows, George tells Rose that he
loves her, After fighting off the McCleadons, dealing with his past and his father, George and Rose find their happily ever after, I love Leigh Greenwood. He gets into the female mindset very well and a joy to read, A lot like Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, the musical, which is AWESOME, This was thebrides forbrothers retelling I was looking for, Leigh Greenwood did not disappoint and hes the first male romance author Ive ever read! I loved George amp Rose together, they made an incredible team.
Did I roll my eyes a little at Georges denial of his feelings for Rose Yes, Did I still love the way they came together and got their HEA Also yes, Cant wait to continue in this series and see each of these brothers meet their brides!,
Este es el primer libro de la serie siete novias y me ha gustado mucho, transcurre en Tejas, a mediados siglo XIX, después de la guerra y en plena reconstrucción del país.
Sus protagonistas son George y Rose, él es el mayor de loshermanos Randolph y ella una joven sin familia que se encuentra discriminada socialmente por ser hija de un soldado yanqui.
Me ha gustado mucho cómo está contada, con sencillez, metiéndote poco a poco en la historia, como surge todo, como se hace querer y respetar Rose, sin imponer nada, con paciencia y respeto.
Y como George va cambiando su visión de futuro, como supera el pasado y decide lo que quiere hacer,
Cada hermano es un mundo, son muy diferentes aunque hay uno que en este libro está ausente, Me ha encantado Zack con susaños, un niño travieso y muy tierno,
Me parece muy importante el papel tan importante que tiene la familia en este libro, por encima de ideales y deseos individuales, hay una fuerte responsabilidad en ellos que les impulsa a mantenerse unidos frente a todo.
Esta muy bien ambientada y todo el sentimiento de odio y crispación que se respira en esa época muy bien tratado, los diferentes bandos, las habladurías y todo lo vivido durante la reciente guerra.
Los trabajos y rutinas propias de los ranchos, cuidado de los animales y conflictos entre vecinos y cuatreros,
En resumen, lo recomiendo, una lectura que te atrapa, bonita y emocionante por momentos, con aventuras y peligros y con un romance que aunque se puede decir que es a primera vista, se cuece lento.
No ha estado mal si obviamos el principio, El instalove es algo con lo que no puedo y menos si está construido como en este libro, No me gustó nada y estuve a punto de abandonar la lectura porque se me estaba atragantando, Al final decidí darle una oportunidad y leerlo y no está mal, me ha gustado bastante, No me ha encantado, pero me ha dejado con la curiosidad suficiente para leer los siguientes y poder conocer un poco más a los otros hermanos.
El segundo libro precisamente habla de Maddison, el que menos me interesa, pero bueno, lo leeré de todas formas para poder pasar a los demás.
This reminded me so much of the movie Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,if you take away the singing and the kidnapping,
The heroine Rose trying to make a living works in a cantina where she dodges the male customers lecherous attentions and the grumpy lady proprietor of the cantina.
One day the hero,Georige steps into her workplace orders something to eat
When one of the other costumers make a grab at Rose she is defended by George but subsequently finds herself fired from her job for making too much trouble.
Downtrodden she walks out of there but to her luck hears that the man who defended her earlier is seeking a housekeeper to cook and clean for him and his brothers.
George is not at all keen to employ her seeing as she is a young and unmarried woman, . . but there is no one else who wants the job so its decided she has the job, They leave for his home and well there Rose realizes its not just the housework that needs taking care of,
If you have seen the movie you know where this is going
So slowly she settles in and tries to both deal with housework and the brothers relationship they got issues
This was if not a bad book,it was decent but I dont think I will find myself rereading this or recommending it to others.
It was just a bit too bland,
I would find myself thinking about certain scenes"oh thats sweet" but my interest in the couple never went beyond lukewarm, I just didnt get a sense of chemistry between them, It was more like they were convenient to each other,
The other books will follow the brothers way to find love but I am not sure its anything I will chose to read in a hurry.
When they finally get together romantically it felt very forced, .