Megan Mulry
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Thanks to Netgalley and Sourcebooks Casablanca for providing me with an eARC of this book.
I really dont understand why this has such low ratings on Goodreads, Its a short read, full of sensual, sexy scenes and did I mentiona dashing Spaniard swoon
Isabelle is getting married.
Its an arranged marriage, and she has never met the man in question, She has become tired of her fathers dictatorship and decides to ran away, On the road she meets the very man she was supposed to marry, But of course, she doesnt know this yet,
Isabelle and Javier grow fond of each other in, what, two nights Yes, its a bit instalove but it works.
This is only a short story, I read it in an evening with a glass of diet coke, most delicious!
I cannot explain why I love novels like this so much! Is this classed as a novel Im not sure of the page count, or word count.
It might be a novella, They just give me a warm fuzzy feeling!
Im such a girl! Somebody slap me.
I honestly would recommend you check this book out if you dont mind descriptive, sensual scenes.
! I oneclicked because of another author recommendation AND the subject of Japanese rope tying, I couldn't get interested in the setting or the characters at all, None of it seemed to fit together, and certainly not Japanese bondage which was really just more rope tying than the sexually charged artistic form I was expecting for ayr old conventschooled girl.
Somehow I got it into my head that this book was labeled erotica, Because of this, my main thought when it came time to review it was huh for a book labeled erotica theres sure not a whole lot of smexing going on.
Wait, let me explain,
I actually read the blurb for this book on Netgalley and I might have actually snorted when I thought this is too much, even for me.
You can imagine my shock when I actually got the book I think it was an Idle Hands situation.
So now Ive got what Im assuming is an utterly ridiculous piece of smut not that theres anything wrong with utterly ridiculous pieces of smut, its just that my husband prefers me not to review them and Im morally obligated to read and review it.
Crapballs, I think to myself, no what
I did what any sensible person would do and read it.
It should be noted that my idea of sensible may differ greatly from your own, Actually, Ive been told that my idea of sensible is so unsensible that its actually its own kind of irony.
If you remember, my theme for the week has been and then I read more than three pages
This title was no different.
Isabella and Javi are actually pretty great characters, Theyre strong, stubborn, proud and fiercely attracted to each other, Even though it couldnt come at a worse time, since theyre both fleeing from an arraigned marriage to this horrible stereotype of nobility in their era.
Or so they think,
The story is short and quick, and you do pick up on that as your reading, but honestly I dont think it detracts much from the story.
In fact, while Im sure you couldve expanded on this narrative, Im not sure to do so would have been wise, and I I spentminutes trying to remember the word I wanted to use here, and couldnt you get my second choice and I applaud the author for recognizing that fact.
Now back to my main thought, While the narrative involves a great deal of Isabella being tied up, theres actually relatively little time spent engaging in illicit activities.
Well, aside from all the running away and revolution Illicit NAUGHTY activities, There, thats better So if you like your smexy books to be heavier on the smexy, you might be disappointed.
Luckily I just enjoy reading about couples falling and/or being in love so it was all good in my book.
Sigh. I love Mulry's voice and I loved this sweet yes, it's sweet! and sexy romantic novella, There is just enough historical detail to make it plausible, but I enjoyed this as straightup fantasy.
Lovely writing, lovely couple, lovely fairy tale, I know it's not fair to complain that a novella is too short, but damn, I wanted more! I received this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
Isabella has been locked away in a convent for years and now her father arranged a marriage for her.
She decided to ran away on the road she met a man, . the man she was supposed to marry, of course she didn't know this
The only down side for me is that I couldn't connect with the characters.
There was something missing, it's probably because it was a short book, but despite everything I still enjoyed it and the sexual tension was entertaining.
I recommend this book specially if you're in the mood for a quick read, There were aspects of this that were fun enough to keep me readingJavi and Isabella's banter being the key onebut most of it was a little too rushed, a little too contrived, a little too inconsistent.
Since I know absolutely nothing about this
part of history, I can't comment on its accuracy, but I will say that Isabella's time at the convent teaching her hard work is believable, but the survival skills, not so much.
Good thing the runaway bride meets up with her runaway husband almost immediately so he and his companions can look after her.
This is interesting, in a way, though, as an example of a narrative style that keeps everything snappy and interesting even when the plot or the characters fall apart the second you examine them closely.
Isabella is an inconsistent mess of wantonness and sudden shyness Javi is hellbent on being a revolutionary and not a husband, until he gets a sweet little thing who likes to be tied up, and then he's fine with staying in Spain and being himself again for a while.
Actually, now that I type that out, his character arc does make a fair bit of sense in context, it's just very rushed.
Isabella's still a flipfloppy nightmare, The entire point of the novella, two people running away from their own marriage only to find each other anyway, is ridiculous to the point where you can almost appreciate it just for its brazenness as a romance plot.
So this is bad, yet somehow still really fun Usually when I rate something this low by a newtome author, I'll ditch whatever other books of theirs I have on my TBR, but the first Regency Reimagined novel, which I also own, sounds a lot like thiskinky fun without being worried too much about making sense.
I'm surprisingly okay with that,
Well, it didn't.
It doesn't matter anyway, it is still a good story, I just wonder how good it would've been had it been a full length novel,
Isabella grew up in a convent, the sisters taught her all there was to being the perfect wife, little do they know becoming the perfect wife isn't even on her list.
Running away as fast and as far as she can is the only thought on her mind.
The one thing Isabelle never counts on is stumbling upon the man she is running away from.
Javi doesn't care for marriage, in fact, he's running just the opposite direction, He has more important matters at hand, such as: going to Mexico, . . than marrying his bethrothed. Someone he's never met! Then, along comes a woman in the middle of the woods whom tempts him with every little thing she does.
To his surprise, the woman happens to be the one he left at the altar, except he didn't, because truth be told, neither one of them ever intended to show up.
Bound to be a Bride is a fast paced historical romance with a bit of humor and a dash of spice.
Isabella has been locked away in a convent for years, following every rule and dictate from her father.
Now that she is a woman her father has even chosen her husband, Desperate for freedom, Isabella hatches a plot to escape her arranged marriage and head to England,
Javi is an aristocrat and a revolutionist, He is also an expert in hojojutsu the art of rope binding, He desires a woman who will appreciate his desires and skills and knows that a convent raised wife is not the woman for him.
He plans to escape to Mexico and continue his revolutionary fight against Napoleons rule there,
Isabella and Javi end up in the same woods at the same time running from their marriage to each other.
What a great concept Running from a marriage and ending up in each others company and discovering who they really are.
. . The story was entertaining although I found some of the plot implausible, The sexual tension builds through out the entire book till the end and most of it included ropes.
Bound to Be a Bride was a quick, easy, entertaining read,
This ARC copy of Bound to Be A Bride was given to me by Sourcebooks Casablanca in exchange for a honest review.
This book is set for publication on April,, L'intrigue est intéressante mais le rapport des deux principaux protagonistes avec les cordes et les noeuds est vraiment trop bizarre.
Great historical romance novella. Meticulous research I approve! and an interesting story, Fun, short romp of a book with a 'tie me up, tie me down' twist, Enjoyed it! This book was just okay to me, I am not sure why but I really did not connect with anyone of the characters to well.
The writing was okay but the plot was just not what I thought it would be, It was a fast read and not a total bore, I honestly think I may have liked it better if I found the characters more likeable.
I won't go into what I thought of Issabelle's Father, of course I am sure we are not supposed to like him and for the time period he was not that much of an oddity.
Well it would seem the slump continues, .
Thanks to Netgalley and Sourcebooks Casablanca for providing me with an eARC of this book.
I really dont understand why this has such low ratings on Goodreads, Its a short read, full of sensual, sexy scenes and did I mentiona dashing Spaniard swoon
Isabelle is getting married.
Its an arranged marriage, and she has never met the man in question, She has become tired of her fathers dictatorship and decides to ran away, On the road she meets the very man she was supposed to marry, But of course, she doesnt know this yet,
Isabelle and Javier grow fond of each other in, what, two nights Yes, its a bit instalove but it works.
This is only a short story, I read it in an evening with a glass of diet coke, most delicious!
I cannot explain why I love novels like this so much! Is this classed as a novel Im not sure of the page count, or word count.
It might be a novella, They just give me a warm fuzzy feeling!
Im such a girl! Somebody slap me.
I honestly would recommend you check this book out if you dont mind descriptive, sensual scenes.
! I oneclicked because of another author recommendation AND the subject of Japanese rope tying, I couldn't get interested in the setting or the characters at all, None of it seemed to fit together, and certainly not Japanese bondage which was really just more rope tying than the sexually charged artistic form I was expecting for ayr old conventschooled girl.
Somehow I got it into my head that this book was labeled erotica, Because of this, my main thought when it came time to review it was huh for a book labeled erotica theres sure not a whole lot of smexing going on.
Wait, let me explain,
I actually read the blurb for this book on Netgalley and I might have actually snorted when I thought this is too much, even for me.
You can imagine my shock when I actually got the book I think it was an Idle Hands situation.
So now Ive got what Im assuming is an utterly ridiculous piece of smut not that theres anything wrong with utterly ridiculous pieces of smut, its just that my husband prefers me not to review them and Im morally obligated to read and review it.
Crapballs, I think to myself, no what
I did what any sensible person would do and read it.
It should be noted that my idea of sensible may differ greatly from your own, Actually, Ive been told that my idea of sensible is so unsensible that its actually its own kind of irony.
If you remember, my theme for the week has been and then I read more than three pages
This title was no different.
Isabella and Javi are actually pretty great characters, Theyre strong, stubborn, proud and fiercely attracted to each other, Even though it couldnt come at a worse time, since theyre both fleeing from an arraigned marriage to this horrible stereotype of nobility in their era.
Or so they think,
The story is short and quick, and you do pick up on that as your reading, but honestly I dont think it detracts much from the story.
In fact, while Im sure you couldve expanded on this narrative, Im not sure to do so would have been wise, and I I spentminutes trying to remember the word I wanted to use here, and couldnt you get my second choice and I applaud the author for recognizing that fact.
Now back to my main thought, While the narrative involves a great deal of Isabella being tied up, theres actually relatively little time spent engaging in illicit activities.
Well, aside from all the running away and revolution Illicit NAUGHTY activities, There, thats better So if you like your smexy books to be heavier on the smexy, you might be disappointed.
Luckily I just enjoy reading about couples falling and/or being in love so it was all good in my book.
Sigh. I love Mulry's voice and I loved this sweet yes, it's sweet! and sexy romantic novella, There is just enough historical detail to make it plausible, but I enjoyed this as straightup fantasy.
Lovely writing, lovely couple, lovely fairy tale, I know it's not fair to complain that a novella is too short, but damn, I wanted more! I received this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
Isabella has been locked away in a convent for years and now her father arranged a marriage for her.
She decided to ran away on the road she met a man, . the man she was supposed to marry, of course she didn't know this
The only down side for me is that I couldn't connect with the characters.
There was something missing, it's probably because it was a short book, but despite everything I still enjoyed it and the sexual tension was entertaining.
I recommend this book specially if you're in the mood for a quick read, There were aspects of this that were fun enough to keep me readingJavi and Isabella's banter being the key onebut most of it was a little too rushed, a little too contrived, a little too inconsistent.
Since I know absolutely nothing about this
part of history, I can't comment on its accuracy, but I will say that Isabella's time at the convent teaching her hard work is believable, but the survival skills, not so much.
Good thing the runaway bride meets up with her runaway husband almost immediately so he and his companions can look after her.
This is interesting, in a way, though, as an example of a narrative style that keeps everything snappy and interesting even when the plot or the characters fall apart the second you examine them closely.
Isabella is an inconsistent mess of wantonness and sudden shyness Javi is hellbent on being a revolutionary and not a husband, until he gets a sweet little thing who likes to be tied up, and then he's fine with staying in Spain and being himself again for a while.
Actually, now that I type that out, his character arc does make a fair bit of sense in context, it's just very rushed.
Isabella's still a flipfloppy nightmare, The entire point of the novella, two people running away from their own marriage only to find each other anyway, is ridiculous to the point where you can almost appreciate it just for its brazenness as a romance plot.
So this is bad, yet somehow still really fun Usually when I rate something this low by a newtome author, I'll ditch whatever other books of theirs I have on my TBR, but the first Regency Reimagined novel, which I also own, sounds a lot like thiskinky fun without being worried too much about making sense.
I'm surprisingly okay with that,
An exciting erotic novella from acclaimed author Megan Mulry set in Napoleonic Spain, Featuring the sensual art of Japanese rope binding, this is a fresh and intriguing spin on BDSM.
Seventeenyearold Isabella Doña Isabella de Suárez de Figueroa y Córdoba, daughter of the Duke of Feria, is preparing for her arranged marriage to the son of a wealthy aristocrat.
On the morning of her wedding day, after weeks of planning, Isabella escapes from the palace, believing she is riding to freedom.
Unfortunately, after only a few hours on horseback, Isabella happens upon a small band of three gentlemen who restrain her and take her hostage.
Ultimately, after they realize she is most likely a woman of privilege, they offer their assistance, as all of them are also headed to Aveiro, a port city in Portugal, to escape their familial obligations.
While they are travelling, Isabella and Javier, the leader, develop a tender affection, When Javi Francisco Javier de la Mina insists on binding Isabella's wrists and ankles each nightostensibly to prevent her escape or theft of their goodsthe ritual soon turns into a heated game of unspoken sexual promise that is ultimately consummated when they discover their true identities.
Well, it didn't.
It doesn't matter anyway, it is still a good story, I just wonder how good it would've been had it been a full length novel,
Isabella grew up in a convent, the sisters taught her all there was to being the perfect wife, little do they know becoming the perfect wife isn't even on her list.
Running away as fast and as far as she can is the only thought on her mind.
The one thing Isabelle never counts on is stumbling upon the man she is running away from.
Javi doesn't care for marriage, in fact, he's running just the opposite direction, He has more important matters at hand, such as: going to Mexico, . . than marrying his bethrothed. Someone he's never met! Then, along comes a woman in the middle of the woods whom tempts him with every little thing she does.
To his surprise, the woman happens to be the one he left at the altar, except he didn't, because truth be told, neither one of them ever intended to show up.
Bound to be a Bride is a fast paced historical romance with a bit of humor and a dash of spice.
Isabella has been locked away in a convent for years, following every rule and dictate from her father.
Now that she is a woman her father has even chosen her husband, Desperate for freedom, Isabella hatches a plot to escape her arranged marriage and head to England,
Javi is an aristocrat and a revolutionist, He is also an expert in hojojutsu the art of rope binding, He desires a woman who will appreciate his desires and skills and knows that a convent raised wife is not the woman for him.
He plans to escape to Mexico and continue his revolutionary fight against Napoleons rule there,
Isabella and Javi end up in the same woods at the same time running from their marriage to each other.
What a great concept Running from a marriage and ending up in each others company and discovering who they really are.
. . The story was entertaining although I found some of the plot implausible, The sexual tension builds through out the entire book till the end and most of it included ropes.
Bound to Be a Bride was a quick, easy, entertaining read,
This ARC copy of Bound to Be A Bride was given to me by Sourcebooks Casablanca in exchange for a honest review.
This book is set for publication on April,, L'intrigue est intéressante mais le rapport des deux principaux protagonistes avec les cordes et les noeuds est vraiment trop bizarre.
Great historical romance novella. Meticulous research I approve! and an interesting story, Fun, short romp of a book with a 'tie me up, tie me down' twist, Enjoyed it! This book was just okay to me, I am not sure why but I really did not connect with anyone of the characters to well.
The writing was okay but the plot was just not what I thought it would be, It was a fast read and not a total bore, I honestly think I may have liked it better if I found the characters more likeable.
I won't go into what I thought of Issabelle's Father, of course I am sure we are not supposed to like him and for the time period he was not that much of an oddity.
Well it would seem the slump continues, .