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listened to this book on audio, The reader was really good separating voices to characters,
I loved the plot and characters of this book, I loved that Rosie had gumption, Tom and Rosie made a great couple, The story flowed very nicely and I am looking forward to reading more,.Stars
A few curse words are in this review, Just a warning.
The title doesn't fit the book at all, Rosie isn't wild whatsoever.
The dialogue is all over the place, sometimes more modern sounding that it should be and other times simply just awkward.
Rosie's characterization is strange as well, She's scandalized at the prospect of possibly having to cook on a chuck wagon, but doesn't even blink when Tom tells her that he's eventually going to fuck her, just not on the first night.
Whaaat So she's a lady from a well to do family inthat has no sexual experience or knowledge but is fine, not shocked, with a strange man telling her that he wants to fuck her.
Okaaay I haven't read a Western in a while and thought this would be a good change of pace, I was not disappointed.
Tame a Wild Bride is the third book in the series, but can be read as a stand alone.
I have not read the otherbooks, so I don't have any back story, However, I had not trouble keeping pace with the characters or the story line,
Tame a Wild Bride is the story of Rosie, a mail order bride,
escaping from her city life to claim a life of her own.
True to the way of life in the early Western days, Tame a Wild Bride shows the hardships, trials, and joys of frontier life.
At the same time, Rosie and Tom discover feelings and a love for each other,
Ms. Woolf does a wonderful job of showing the struggles of frontier life as well as developing a story line that follows a good Western movie: hardships, characters that struggle, a mystery to be solved, and a family that learns to love.
Rosie and Tom's story pulled at my heartstrings and delivered great steamy, love scenes, Makes me wish for my own cowboy, Rosie and Tom. Tom advertises for a wife, but really he just wants someone to care for his kids and cook and clean.
Rosie accepts and is heartily disappointed when she gets there to find out it won't be a true marriage, but one of convenience.
She comes from a well to do family out east but when her brother remarries, she realizes she doesn't like his new wife.
But she's stuck now, cause if she goes back, nobody will marry her, She makes the best of it, and Tom is quite the jerk but it doesn't take him long to realize his mistake.
Not every woman is like his first wife who ran off and was killed in a carriage accident, It doesn't take some outside event to open his eyes to the good thing he has with Rosie, which was nice change from the usual trope.
But then bad guys do intervene, but are easily defeated,
I find this a author's style kinda simplistic and her characters seem very similar, but this one was pretty entertaining and nicely balanced.
For those worried about OW drama Cynthia Woolfs To Tame a Wild Bride is a charming old west mailorder bride romance but, in this one, Ms.
Woolf, adds a bit of intrigue, Her story line depicts the struggles and the hardships of frontier life, Ms. Woolf is a masterful storyteller and accomplishes this through her characterdriven plot to keep her readers riveted, The protagonists, Rose and Tom, like most romance novel leads are damaged, They are redeemed by their positive qualities, I appreciate the way Ms, Woolf weaves several themes into her plot line such as trust issues, finding love, and starting over, There is always an antagonist, and, in this tale, it is Toms deceased wife, Serena who ran away from their marriage and abandoned their children.
Its a fascinating twist how a deceased wife can be the antagonist, but to further explain would be a spoiler.
To discover how I suggest you read this book, The literary devices of witty dialog and descriptive language contributes to realistic scenes, I don't understand how a woman of means was cooking and cleaning in her brother's home alongside the staff.
Maybe if we had received more of a back story about ill treatment by her sister in law would have helped to explain why she was desperate enough to become a mailorder bride.
Also, since she had., I don't understand what drove her to marry immediately after being mistreated and finding out that she had been lied to.
She could have taken a job or returned to her brother,
I also didn't understand Tom's actions, His first wife might have hurt his pride but that doesn't give him the right to make another woman pay for her sins.
If he wanted to avoid having a second woman leave, he should have fully disclosed his expectations in order to prevent misunderstandings.
I disliked him from the moment that he didn't offer her to option to freshen up of eat something after her long journey.
Estuvo bien, nada espectacular. Para pasar un ratito agradable, La trama no es nueva, pero la historia está bien contada, nada de drama gratuito ni sinsentidos, Me ha gustado mucho como desarrolla la idea de los matrimonios por correo, el porqué de los mismos, cómo se convierte en la única opción en ese momento para que una mujer pueda tener vida propia si se le puede llamar así y lo arriesgado que debía ser lanzarse a esa “aventura”.
No me ha gustado mucho que no haya desarrollado más la relación entre los hijos de él y ella me ha parecido un poco apresurado y me ha costado tragarme la historia de su primera esposa tampoco la desarrolla con detalle, con lo cual parece un poco superflua y banal.
Lectura ligera y sin pretensiones,
Tame a Wild Bride by Cynthia Woolf follows the adventures of Rosie Stanton, a cityborn girl who agrees to travel west to marry a young rancher with children.
Back in, genteel women seldom had adventures, they lived sedate lives composed of plate painting, music recitals, and bringing up children.
Bad news was none of that was happening for our heroine, Rosie,
If being a spinster wasnt bad enough, Rosie finds herself on her brother and new sisterinlaws good graces since both her parents are dead.
Two adult women cannot live in the same house in peace, especially if one of them is Rosies sisterinlaw.
With her fingers crossed, and hope in her heart, she willingly boards the train to travel west to an unknown bridegroom, a widower with two motherless children.
The handsome man who meets her surprises her with his bitter attitude, and refusal to have any more children.
Tom Harris, her groom, rushes her off to the preacher with the travel dirt still on her face so they can be respectably married before picking up the children and heading home.
Rosie not only battles with her husbands attitude that shell leave too, but also the memories of the deceased wife she assumes Tom loved beyond belief.
Rosie seems to have everything going for her, with the children liking her, and Tom changing his ways, when the “deceased” wife returns.
It is never a good thing when that happens, Rosie is a fighter, but the other female is pure evil, and has the law is on her side as Toms legal wife.
Rosie is a spunky heroine who refuses to let unknown tasks and a bitter man get her down too much.
The fact she wrestles with the reminders of the former indulged wife all around the house makes her more human, and likable.
The chemistry between Tom and Rosie is good, The children are willing to accept her, as most abandoned children would be when presented with a kindly surrogate.
The wife that wouldnt go away is reminiscent of stalker girlfriends, See they even existed over a hundred years ago,
Tame a Wild Bride is a sweet historical romance with just the right amount of sexual tension, and suspense.
This book has the feel of Avalon publishing, If youre an Avalon fan, then this is the book for you,
Rosie Stanton climbed on a westbound train to answer his ad for a wife and mother, everything she wants to be.
But Tom Harris lied. He doesn't want a wife, merely a mother for his two abandoned children and a cook and cleaner for his ranch.
Betrayed once, he's vowed never to let another woman into his heart, Sexy Rosie upsets all his plans and threatens to invade his scarred heart, How will he maintain his vow to keep his hands off her as she charms his children, his cow hands, his life.