Format: E-book
Read with: Kindle for I-Pad
Length: Novel
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Series: The Bride?s Bouquet, Book 2
Hero: James Carlton
Heroine: Poppy Carlton
Sensuality: 3.5
Published On: June 1997
Started On: 13th June 2011
Finished On: 13th June 2011
I can almost always count on a good old Harlequin novel to take me on an emotional rollercoaster ride from which I wouldn?t want to get off. Penny Jordan is a favorite Harlequin author of mine and I am sure many fans of the Harlequin line are bound to feel the same. Though I have done most of my Harlequin crazed phase of reading prior to the start of my review site, this is one novel by Penny Jordan that I seemed to have missed, a fact I am glad that I have rectified when I started on this one on a whim today.
22 year old Poppy Carlton has had her dreams crushed when her cousin Chris Carlton who has been the man of her dreams since she had turned 12 years of age marries another. Forced to grow up and get her head out of the clouds, Poppy is horrified when her virginal body responds in an appalling manner to James Carlton?s caresses. James is her beloved Chris?s elder brother, the forbidding and formidable version to the sunny and easy going nature of Chris who occupies her thoughts night and day ? or so Poppy tries telling herself.
8 years older than Poppy, James is a man who keeps his emotions close to himself apart from tearing into Poppy?s infatuation when it comes to his younger brother. When consequences of their nights of passion together forces Poppy to acknowledge her feelings towards the brother who is a match for her in everyway, Poppy fears that she might be just a little bit too late in accepting that James is the one and only for her.
I love stories where the hero has always being in love with the heroine but somehow was overshadowed by the heroine?s infatuation with another man presumably a relative of the hero?s. James is a mouthwateringly alluring hero and Poppy though at first grated on my nerves with her self pitying nature made up for it beautifully when she freely expresses her need for James bringing the poor guy to his knees.
And this one certainly managed to be an emotion wrenching read and I loved the effect the story had on my emotions as I read along. Though this might not be a feminist?s idea of how a romance should be, this is romance in its most old-fashioned form, the reason why I fell in love with the world of romance in the first place. Recommended for fans of the Harlequin genre and fans of Penny Jordan.
Rating from the sunny side of life:?
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Source: http://www.maldivianbookreviewer.com/2011/06/13/review-best-man-to-wed-by-penny-jordan/
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