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A review by romantically_swept_away
Wicked Delights of a Bridal Bed by Tracy Anne Warren
4.0
*all of my reviews contain possible spoilers*
**NOTE: This review is written using my old process. Which is just me chatting about the book. All new reviews starting in 2022 will be written with my easy to read, easy to understand, review layout!
This was another great addition to The Byrons of Braebourne series. Only one book left! I'm feeling slightly forlorn. I can't say it is my favorite series ever, but it's a very memorable and lovely series none-the-less. With an amazing family and characters!
In this book we have Adam Gresham (uh, love that name!) who has been in love with Mallory Byron for years. Mallory once harbored a love for Adam but quickly put it aside due to his lack of interest and his treatment of her as a "child". This was due to the fact that, yes, she was yet a child, a young girl, in many ways, and also the fact that he did not want to be seen as a fortune hunter due to his current financial situation. All of this, on top of the fact that he was best friends with her brother, and friends with his other brothers, essentially a part of their family, he quickly pushed his feelings deep down and did an amazing job at hiding them over the years.
During the first few books we get little slivers where we see Adam looking at Mallory from afar, slight glances and very obvious insinuations that there is something more there on Adam's behalf, than just friendly emotions for Mallory. Surprisingly no one ever really realizes it or says anything.
Mallory is engaged during this time, to Michael Hargreaves. Who goes off to war and dies. We come into this book about a year later, Mallory has done much grieving and still grieves, just in a less tearful way than the beginning. Adam comes and visits with Mallory and her family and helps Mallory start to find happiness again. Mallory slowly developes feelings for Adam, and they grow and evolve the more their story goes on. Eventually Mallory realizes her love for him was always there, and that even though she had loved Michael it was a different kind of love. And that her love for Adam was the kind that Michael deserved from a wife. The kind that she did not truly have for him. In the end she realized she would always care for Michael, but only as a friend.
BIG SPOILER --
Adam struggles with his love for Mallory. Feeling as if he has to fight with a ghost for her love. He begins to hope that her feelings may be becoming more, and both him and Mallory are finding true happiness together, when Michael returns. He shows up one day and explains how he had been wounded on the battlefield. His clothing and possessions had been stolen, and the thief had died with them on his person. Thus Michael had been announced as dead, all the while he was in a French prison. (I do not lie when I say that I called this at the beginning! I didn't know it would actually happen but I had told myself "Watch he's not actually dead" and low-and-behold, he wasn't!
**NOTE: This review is written using my old process. Which is just me chatting about the book. All new reviews starting in 2022 will be written with my easy to read, easy to understand, review layout!
This was another great addition to The Byrons of Braebourne series. Only one book left! I'm feeling slightly forlorn. I can't say it is my favorite series ever, but it's a very memorable and lovely series none-the-less. With an amazing family and characters!
In this book we have Adam Gresham (uh, love that name!) who has been in love with Mallory Byron for years. Mallory once harbored a love for Adam but quickly put it aside due to his lack of interest and his treatment of her as a "child". This was due to the fact that, yes, she was yet a child, a young girl, in many ways, and also the fact that he did not want to be seen as a fortune hunter due to his current financial situation. All of this, on top of the fact that he was best friends with her brother, and friends with his other brothers, essentially a part of their family, he quickly pushed his feelings deep down and did an amazing job at hiding them over the years.
During the first few books we get little slivers where we see Adam looking at Mallory from afar, slight glances and very obvious insinuations that there is something more there on Adam's behalf, than just friendly emotions for Mallory. Surprisingly no one ever really realizes it or says anything.
Mallory is engaged during this time, to Michael Hargreaves. Who goes off to war and dies. We come into this book about a year later, Mallory has done much grieving and still grieves, just in a less tearful way than the beginning. Adam comes and visits with Mallory and her family and helps Mallory start to find happiness again. Mallory slowly developes feelings for Adam, and they grow and evolve the more their story goes on. Eventually Mallory realizes her love for him was always there, and that even though she had loved Michael it was a different kind of love. And that her love for Adam was the kind that Michael deserved from a wife. The kind that she did not truly have for him. In the end she realized she would always care for Michael, but only as a friend.
BIG SPOILER --
Adam struggles with his love for Mallory. Feeling as if he has to fight with a ghost for her love. He begins to hope that her feelings may be becoming more, and both him and Mallory are finding true happiness together, when Michael returns. He shows up one day and explains how he had been wounded on the battlefield. His clothing and possessions had been stolen, and the thief had died with them on his person. Thus Michael had been announced as dead, all the while he was in a French prison. (I do not lie when I say that I called this at the beginning! I didn't know it would actually happen but I had told myself "Watch he's not actually dead" and low-and-behold, he wasn't!