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Scottish Brides by Stephanie Laurens, Karen Ranney, Julia Quinn, Christina Dodd

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tangerine1895's review against another edition

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4.0

Muy cortita historia y tierna! Me encantó!

bhavani's review against another edition

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Story 1 by Christina Dodd - Meh; 2 by Stephanie Laurens - Sexy; 3 by Julia Quinn - Funny and rompy; and 4 by Karen Tanney - Magical/Mystical

balletbookworm's review against another edition

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3.0

The Julia Quinn story (Gretna Greene) is the best - the rest are OK. Nothing terribly memorable. I got this for a steal in ebook form so it was at least entertaining.

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3.0

Pas grand chose de transcendant à dire sur ce livre.
Le gros point fort : ça se passe en Ecosse !
Sinon, ce sont des nouvelles, donc les intrigues sont résolues assez rapidement (voire parfois expédiées), et les autrices étant différentes, les histoires sont inégales.
J'ai beaucoup aimé la deuxième et la troisième, moins la première et pas du tout la dernière.
Attention, plein de clichés ici : les femmes sont toujours un brin naïves, et les hommes de grands êtres virils mais attentionnés. Et bien sûr, tout est bien qui fini bien à chaque fois.
Emprunté à la bibliothèque, donc pas de regret, mais pas une lecture qui me marquera, c'est sur.

smiley7245's review against another edition

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funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.75

This book has four novellas so I will review one separately.

Under the Kilt by Christina Dodd: 3.5* Hadden finally gets his story, and frankly it was not enough for me. He needed an entire full length novel. I wanted to know so much more about Andra, their initial meeting and courtship, and I wanted this story to last longer.

The marriage kilt was a nice touch, and her using it as a blanket after their *activities* was cute. As was them being awakened by all of the characters from the previous books. But, they deserved more.

Rose in Bloom by Stephanie Laurens: 4* I did not recognize any of the characters from previous books, but they may be minor characters in books that I haven't read yet. Duncan and Rose have known each other since they were children; she was the annoying tag-along who followed him everywhere. Now, they are both at his mother's house for her Midsummer activities. Both have also brought prospective suitors.

It is ridiculously obvious that neither suitor is going to be enough. In fact, they should end up with each other, except for the fact that Clarissa is 19 and the age gap with her and Jeremy would be yucky (it's certainly yucky with her and Duncan but he's not really interested in her so it's fine). Clarissa shows herself to not only be the wrong one, but a heartless one when while out for a ride they all hear the cries of a child and she wants to leave the kid (kids as it turns out) and just worry about herself and the ball. Jeremy reluctantly takes her back to the house while Duncan and Rose search the caves and find two brothers who they save. The boys end up being fine and they try to return to the ball, but miss the last dance. Everyone that sees them together says it's about time and then that night he seduces her. She tells Jeremy no the next day but he's not having it so Duncan shows up and calls Rose his countess to be, cutting off any protestations from Jeremy.

. This was longer than the first novella in the book and the characters felt more fleshed out, their relationship didn't feel rushed. I liked how this played out.

Gretna Greene by Julia Quinn: 4.5* I did not recognize any of these characters, but I loved every second of it. I adore Julia Quinn. Her books are full of humor and this was no exception. Margaret and Angus were hilarious together.

Margaret runs off to Gretna Greene by herself to stop her brother from eloping. Angus is trying to catch up to his sister who has decided to run away to her great-aunt in London because she wants a season. Margaret ends up in some trouble and Angus saves her. He then makes her pretend to be his wife so they can get rooms, turns out there's only one room left, with only one bed. Unfortunately they do not make use of it. She thinks she sees her brother and goes running out after him, but it's not him. The innkeeper hears him call her by her "maiden" name and says there's a messenger looking for her so Angus goes to get the message. Turns out her brother lied, he's really off joining the army. The next morning Angus is out looking for the perfect breakfast for Margaret and he finds his sister. He goes storming off after her and Margaret see, so she goes after him and she ends up acting as the intermediary between the two. The Angus proposes and she accepts. They elope and have a fade to black wedding day, while sister goes to London.

Even though this was a novella the characters felt complete and the story didn't seem rushed. Very enjoyable.

The Glenlyon Bride by Karen Ranney: 2.5* I do not like secret keeping as a trope, and mistaken identity falls into the same category.

If Lachlan had ever actually communicated with Janet instead of just assuming she was his betrothed, then they wouldn't have had this problem. Janet was great and I really felt for her and understood her. Jeremy was such a good person and if I read Karen Ranney I would desperately hope that he got a book of his own, because if there's ever a character that deserved a happy ending it's him.

Overall, this was fine but not as strong as the other three books. I wouldn't have ended the book with this novella since it was the weakest of them all.