The Copeland Bride in Bodice Ripper Readers Anonymous

Oct 15, 2011 Sandi *~The Pirate Wench~* rated it it was ok

Shelves: historical-romances-have-read

Re-read..and for the last time
2 Stars (being generous ) Mostly for the cover art :)

Bodice-Ripper..at it's best..or worst, whatever your "cuppa"

Since her mother's death Noelle Dorian has managed to survive in London's underworld by becoming the finest pick-pocket around.
Everyone knows her as the aloof and tempting "highness."
Enter now one cruel dude Quinn Copeland who is about to totally change Noelle's life.
Quinn not having a great relationship with his father, hopes to anger him when he abdu ...more

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Oct 21, 2010 Jena rated it it was ok

Shelves: cheating, beautiful-heroine, bodice-ripper-raper, rapey, caveman, hero-has-a-witchstress, heroine-disguised, stockholm-syndrome

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Jul 30, 2011 LuvBug rated it it was ok

Shelves: historical, kin-p, 2-half-stars-not-great-but-parts-ok, owned-non-keepers, cruel-heroes, bodice-ripper, forced-seduction

2.5 stars.This was an okay read. The,storyline didn’t thrill me, it could have been better. The beginning was interesting but the story quickly turned predictable. I hated the heroine in this book because nothing ever made her happy! She came from the gutters of London and was thrusts into a marriage that enabled her to have a much better life and all she wanted to do was escape back to the gutters. That annoyed me to no end. I just couldn’t relate. I mean, who wouldn’t be happy from escaping bi ...more

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Jul 06, 2010 Dawn rated it it was amazing

Shelves: cole-justine, phillips-susan-elizabeth, collectible

This has turned out to be one of my all-time favorites. I loved the fiery temperaments of both Quinn and Noelle, aka 'Highness'. I, at times, sympathized with both and hated both. More than once, my heart broke for both of them, as well as Quinn's father, Simon. Of course, in the end, all was resolved. But it was a wild ride! ...more

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Nov 27, 2020 BRNTerri rated it liked it

Shelves: historical-romance, i-own-this, bodice-ripper, expensive-hard-to-find

This wasn't good at all. It took me a long 8 days to finish it. It's expensive and hard to find but wasn't worth saving it to read for over two years. Timespan is over three years. Noelle is almost eighteen when it starts and Quinn is almost twenty-eight. All but the last 85 pages take place in England. Noelle is English and Quinn is American.

Noelle is incredibly strong and way too feisty. She's tall, golden-haired and topaz-eyed. She's immature in some ways and very defiant, and violent. She p
This wasn't good at all. It took me a long 8 days to finish it. It's expensive and hard to find but wasn't worth saving it to read for over two years. Timespan is over three years. Noelle is almost eighteen when it starts and Quinn is almost twenty-eight. All but the last 85 pages take place in England. Noelle is English and Quinn is American.

Noelle is incredibly strong and way too feisty. She's tall, golden-haired and topaz-eyed. She's immature in some ways and very defiant, and violent. She punched Quinn twice in different instances. She's very hateful toward Quinn but with good reason. Her mother Daisy was a prostitute and Noelle's been on her own since she was ten years old, after Daisy died. She's earned a reputation as the best pickpocket in town (she pretends to be a prostitute then robs men blind without them knowing) but had to abandon that life after meeting Quinn, though she secretly helps out he poor kids sometimes, until she's found out.

Quinn's an angry and sometimes violent man. He once turned her over across his knees and spanked her hard because she threw two fishes at him. Another time he hit her with a whip and it ripped open the side of her dress. She took the same whip and hit him in the face with it. A time or two he grabbed her roughly. He's in the ship building business. He's got black hair, brown eyes and is half or part American Indian. He mistakes Noelle for a prostitute and rapes her ("It's not my habit to rape virgins"), then forces her to marry him to get back at his father, Simon, whom he doesn't get along with. He abandons her to his father and father's business partner, Constance. She and Quinn live separate lives for two years, until Quinn shows back up in England. During that entire time Constance educates her and teaches her to be a lady. Noelle looks much different now because she was in disguise back when they first met ( her speech was horrible naturally and her hair was very short and dyed bright orange) and Quinn doesn't even recognize her though he's staring her in the face. He's very angry at her and his father for keeping her identity secret from him and was passing her off as his cousin named Dorian Pope. Now that he likes what he sees, he wants to stay married to her but she wants a divorce. They don't get along at all, argue constantly and the story really goes nowhere. Near the end of the story, page 371, Quinn "raped her violently."

The story was good until Quinn abandoned her, then it got boring. In the last part when they travelled to America (Georgia), it got even worse. The only interesting part was a German man named Wolf(gang) Brandt. He could have made a good love triangle with Noelle and Quinn and Wolf's sister Anna would have made a good villain but they weren't introduced until the end so there was no time for it.

At no point in this story did I feel their love for each other, which they declared in the last twenty pages or so. You can feel the dislike between them. So if not for traveling to America and the long separation, this would have gotten a B-rating from me. I like their attitudes. I don't agree with a reviewer on Goodreads saying Noelle has Stockholm Syndrome nor do I agree with a different reviewer there comparing Quinn to Sean Culhane from Stormfire.