Review: Stick with Brides of Bath 1 and 2
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 20, 2013
Leave this one on the shelf.  The primary problem here is that the author does a wonderful job in the "Brides of Bath" books 1 and 2 depicting this book's main character - herself a secondary character in the first two books - as a shallow, selfish, conniving female.  We are now, in this book, expected to clasp her to our collective bosom and cheer for her "happily ever after".  I thought the author was really stretching her literary license to transform this harridan into a heroine, but I was willing to give the book a chance.  I made it halfway through.  The woman is still charmless and soulless, and I don't care what happens to her, so I'm removing this one from my kindle and I'll pretend that it doesn't exist. -- I will also avoid the Bride of Bath 4 book because, based on the description of it, the author had decided to kill off one of the happily married women from book 1 so the grieving widower can find someone else.  What I find most egregious about this is that the woman dies in childbirth - and the major plot device keeping the couple in book 2 from getting together was the man's fear of his wife dying in childbirth. -- Way to go Cheryl Bolen!!!  That'll show him there's nothing to worry about - having his best friend's wife die instead of his own.  You should have quit while you were ahead.