The Bride's Secret: The Brides of Bath

A beautifully written, impressive story captures and grabs your complete attention as they move on with their lives, accepting to love one another as a family!

i don't usually give anything I read 5 stars but I have to say Cheryl Bolen outdid herself with The Bride's Secret. She always spins an absorbing tale but this one is as close to perfection as it can get. Her use of language is both intelligent and accessible; her punctuation skills means I always know what she's trying to say- I don't have to reread a sentence to puzzle out what she most likely meant, and her plot always begins on page 1 and even if you know the 2 protagonists will wind up together (it IS a romance, after all!) the story is so compulsive you can't quit until the last word. In this one, the female is so shallow, egotistical and grasping, even my romantic willingness to look through rose-colored glasses revolted and I considered her irredeemable. But Bolen's steps in her total reformation were so inherently reasonable and logical, I realized by the time of The Crisis that I completely accepted her turnaround and was rooting for the outcome. It was neither shallow nor idealized-just imperfectly human. Every romance lover should have an extensive acquaintance with Cheryl Bolen's work- she's just that good.

I have finished just 44% of the book and couldn't help mention that the constant use of 'my love' and 'dearest' , when there is neither any declaration of love nor a real marriage, is getting on my nerve!! my goodness.. it feels so fake!!