Review: Way too modern heroine for the time period
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 14, 2014
The Convenient Bride certainly has a very forward and modern heroine.  I just could not imagine a heroine acting as she did in the regency period.Lucy lives with her guardian and has been in love with her guardian’s son for years.  They have grown up together and Lucy is certain that Maxwell loves her only as a sister.  When Maxwell asks her to marry him she is torn between her feelings of wanting to be with Max and her desire to protect her heart.  She knows Max is being pressured to marry by his father and she just cannot stand for Max to be trapped in a marriage to someone he would despise.Max tells Lucy all about his sexual exploits and he really wants her to marry him.  The two have been intimate together already.  Yes, proper upper crust Lucy was this loose with her virginity.  I just could not imagine this, especially since she was sleeping with Max who she believed thought of her as a sister.Lucy was temperamental and Max just seemed immature and clueless.  I never connected with them and I found Lucy’s anger to be off putting and I lost track how many times Max had to say I love your for her to believe it.