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Book Review
I had read another book by the author and was impressed with the story and the author’s writing style and consequently added most of them to my TBR. The Veiled Bride was not as expected, even though I would like to read a couple of more books by author Elizabeth Bailey to form an opinion.
The Veiled Bride has all the tropes that I usually go in for in historical romances, forced marriage, hidden faces, a brooding angry hero, a heroine with secrets on her own, and a gothic setting, kind of like the Beauty and Beast theme. Rosina has her reasons for answering an advertisement for a wife and Anton, Lord Raith has his reasons to get married without any courtship or showing his face to anyone. The marriage of convenience trope works in interesting ways with both characters unable to trust the other and taking their own sweet time to accept the inevitable. The story, I felt could have been 100 pages shorter, coz the entire fumbling around, and the communication gaps between the couple were repetitive. Anton keeps reacting to things in anger and Rosina keeps behaving rudely in fact, in more than half of the story they are hurting each other and then apologizing for it.
Well, it was an easy entertaining read for an afternoon though not maybe the best work by the author. The characterization of both Rosina and Anton never worked for me and I was unable to connect with Anton’s behavior at most parts of the book. Elizabeth Bailey surely knows to draw the reader in so I am looking forward to reading a few more books by the author.
Book Blurb
A shocking discovery at the altar. Wedded to a smouldering recluse. Desperate for a refuge, Rosina answers an advertisement for a wife. The temptation proves irresistible, plunging her into a worse predicament.
Anton, Lord Raith, believes no woman can bear his disfigurement. But his inheritance requires him to marry. He did not bargain for the waif who drops into his heart. Nor for the agony of doubt about her secretive history.
Beset by unexpected yearning, plagued by Raith’s suspicions, Rosina struggles to keep faith with her vows. Yet truth will out. The arrival of her Nemesis destroys all hope of a happy outcome.
Can Raith learn to trust? Will Rosina escape her nightmare past to secure a loving future by his side?
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