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A Belated Bride (Rogues, #2)
by Karen Hawkins (Goodreads Author)
by Karen Hawkins (Goodreads Author)
Tammy Walton Grant's review
bookshelves: tropes-spinster-oldmaid-widow, 2010-august, hr-regency, romance-blah, snarky-troll-lives-here, romance-historical
Aug 12, 10
bookshelves: tropes-spinster-oldmaid-widow, 2010-august, hr-regency, romance-blah, snarky-troll-lives-here, romance-historical
Read from August 10 to 12, 2010 — I own a copy
I'm going to have to learn that when a book is "re-issued" 10 years after publication, with a foreward by the author that she "re-worked" the HEA to make it EVEN HAPPIER!!! that I should seek out the original. Too much sugar makes one feel ill, you know. I'm off to find some crackers to settle my stomach, lol.
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Ugh! I hate that!
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Yes! And everyone sparkled and laughed merrily...blech.I really must have PMS. ;)
It wasn't really all that bad, just not particularly good.
PMS is what made me bitchy about my last book. Wonder if I just shouldn't read at all for half the month. But then I really would be dead before the TBR got finished!
I know, me too! But then what do I do with myself? If I can't bitch about a book I'm reading then there's nothing left for me but to start in on my husband, lol. What a slippery slope that is!
I often wonder if the original Devil's Bride & Devil's Daughter were better than the re-worked version. LOL
Catherine Coulter...
She reworked both of those. I don't have the older versions to compare them though. I haven't read Devil's Daughter yet but it says right on the back cover that she re-worked it.
I just can't for the life of me understand why authors do that. I'm very much a "ain't broke, don't fix" kind of person.That being said, I'm off to check out the Coulter books...
It's a ploy to make a buck off those OCD readers who just have to have both versions and read them simultaneously, checking the differences paragraph by paragraph.Too cynical? :P
Tammy - I hope you like the Coulter books... I only have read the first. Just picked out the 2nd at a UBS yesterday.
I haven't read any of Coulter's yet -- so am looking forward to Devil's Embrace. I wonder if I find a moldy old used one I won't have to deal with any "PC" type reworking of the book.
just found this? Maybe there was a spanking in the original? LOL http://www.die-buecherecke.de/coulter... This site interviews Coulter and she talks about rewriting a bit.
Dani "The REAL Cullens_Girl since 2002" wrote: "Catherine Coulter... She reworked both of those. I don't have the older versions to compare them though. I haven't read Devil's D..."I haven't read the older versions of these 2,but I have a couple of others and the best I can remember,she either changes someone's appearance or adds characters from another book for a conversation or 2.
Tammy wrote: "Thanks Nissie - if that's all it was, why would anyone bother?"I've been disappointed several times by this very thing. If a book has been reworked,I want it to be different enough to justify not only the money I spent on it,but the hours of my life I spent on it!
Dani "The REAL Cullens_Girl since 2002" wrote: "I'm not sure it was done to be PC... was it? It was still shocking nonetheless..."Just a guess, Dani - Judith McNaught did it for Whitney, My Love (completely unnecessary, imho) and I think others have done it as well.
I might be a bit jaded, but I think it's done to placate younger readers, ones who get all upset about agressive seductions and
Tammy wrote: "Dani "The REAL Cullens_Girl since 2002" wrote: "I'm not sure it was done to be PC... was it? It was still shocking nonetheless..."Just a guess, Dani - Judith McNaught did it for Whitney, My Lo..."
LOL! Tammy, I am a bit jaded and probably a bit old,but Catherine Coulter and Johanna Lindsey both dish out quite a few spankings in their books and I think everyone of them have been deserved lol! I'm sure that's not a very popular opinion these days,but these gals are just so-you had it right the first time :)-spoiled and unbearable, I'd like to take a swing at them myself sometimes.
Well AFIK Coulter kept the one in Devil's Embrace. ;) And if we're going by the time period, the locale and the situation - it was appropriate if we're going to be sticklers for historical accuracy. lol
I don't mind spankings at all (er, in my historical romances, that is!). They sit better with me than the anachronistic girl-power talk that is in some current historicals.And, like Dani said, if you are going to be true to the time period, and historical accuracy, men probably did spank mouthy women. And think that no meant yes. Jeez, some men still think that way, and we just got told to quit spanking our kids 20 years ago! Can you imagine what is was like when women were chattel?
Tammy wrote: "I might be a bit jaded, but I think it's done to placate younger readers, ones who get all upset about agressive seductions and Yeah, quite a few readers get all touchy and hurty if their reading material doesn't
But the young 'uns'll watch My Sweet 16 and either not lift an eyebrow or admit they want those brats to get a smack or two. LOL
Tammy wrote: "They sit better with me than the anachronistic girl-power talk that is in some current historicals."Or better yet, when the HERO gives the girl power speeches. I read one like that and... *facepalm*
Far from being all *sigh* and swoony and "OMG, he, like, totally thinks like me!", I thought, "This is 1880s Wyoming. He just wants to get laid."
I knew there was a reason I liked the old-skool unPC books the best!No touchy-feely speeches from heroes, no feminist heroines and spankings abounded! Sigh.
Kids today with their Raspberries and Facespaces and "sensitive" heroes and their hula hoops....*yells at cloud*
