Lonesome Bride by Megan Hart
Did not finish… beware spoilers ahead
Lonesome Bride is more of a historical novel than erotic romance. And it so didn’t work for me, in fact I couldn’t finish it. And that was too bad because the story had a great setup.
It is annoying that Jed is pissy with Caitleen for fucking him, when he could have NOT screwed her. But hey typical alphaasshat to be redeemed later hero.
But Caitleen is why the term TSTL was created. I tried to keep going and push on after each stupid move she made. But the kicker was when she decided to become a school teacher, arrived in town with Jed, shared a room with him, followed him into a SALOON, played poker with him and ‘the boys’, got falling down drunk, loudly went back to that one room with him, screwed him and THEN was surprised that the whole town knew and the head school teacher treated her like the slut she was behaving like. I don’t care she was a virgin and only gave herself to Jeb. This is the old west, woman did not play poker in saloons and get fucking drunk unless they were whores in the saloon to turn a trick or two. This isn’t news. The fact she did it wasn’t the biggest eyeroll moment as was her shock women were cutting her.
And to keep moaning and whining afterward about her rep and STILL turn down Jeb’s marriage offer was too much. As was the whole, climb out the window, be stupid and ride a horse out of town ALONE. I just couldn’t make myself care anymore at that point.
Did not finish… do tell if you did and what you thought of it. Although I can’t see it getting better.
Mail-order bride Caitleen O’Neal assumes the man who arrives at the train station to pick her up is the man she’s agreed to marry. After all, he introduces himself as Jed Peters, the name on the papers the preacher gave her to sign. When a night of unexpected lovemaking turns Jed surly instead of sappy, Caite can’t understand why. Only when they finally reach the ranch in Lonesome, Montana, does Caite discover the reason for her lover’s cold shoulder. He’s Jed Peters, all right. Jed Junior, and the white-haired man standing next to the woman he’s just wed is Jed’s father…the man Caite has come all the way from Pennsylvania to marry…
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