Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
The Bittersweet Bride
The Bittersweet Bride | Vanessa Riley
3 posts | 2 read | 3 to read
Widow Theodosia Cecil needs a husband to help protect her son. The former flower seller turned estate owner posts an ad in the newspaper, and no one is more surprised than she when her first love, the man she thought dead, reappears. Ewan Fitzwilliam has been at war for six years. Now, the second son of a powerful earl is back but his beloved Theo needs a husband and will not consider him. She believes Ewan left herin desperate straitsso she denies the feelings she still harbors for the handsome, scarred soldier. Theo and playwright Ewan must overcome bitter lies and vengeful actions that ruined their youthful affair. Theo must reveal her deepest secret in order to reclaim the love that has long been denied.
Amazon Indiebound Barnes and Noble WorldCat Goodreads LibraryThing
review
KS1805
The Bittersweet Bride | Vanessa Riley
post image
Mehso-so

Perhaps not my favorite trope, I didn‘t really get into the relationship. Of note, it‘s a clean romance, which I also enjoy. But if the relationship between the characters isn‘t working, it‘s even more noticeable in a clean romance.

blurb
brandymuses
The Bittersweet Bride | Vanessa Riley
post image

🏈No.
💨30
📚The Bittersweet Bride (tagged)
✈️Iceland (to see the Northern Lights)
✋✅
#friyayintro

Chachic Oh yes to anywhere where I can see the Northern Lights! I'd be okay with northern Norway too. 6y
LadyChristy ✋🏻Iceland is so amazing! 🇮🇸 We went in the spring, so no Northern Lights (not that big of a deal since I‘ve seen them at home), but I desperately want to go back over the winter sometime to catch them there because they are supposedly PHENOMENAL! 🌌 (edited) 6y
umbrellagirl 💙 Iceland 6y
brandymuses @LadyChristy I could probably see them by just going up to Canada, but I‘ve heard they‘re amazing in Iceland. @Chachic Norway would work too! 6y
10 likes4 comments
review
Verity
The Bittersweet Bride | Vanessa Riley
post image
Mehso-so

Well written, but just too melodramatic for me and not my romance tropes: I‘ll put the plot spoiler in the comments. But I‘m sure it‘ll be other people‘s trope catnip and the historical romance genre needs more heroines like Theo. #romantsy #weneeddiversebooks #historicalromance

Verity Trope is Secret Baby - or at least child with father other than expected. I know I‘m in the minority here, because Secret babies/pregnancies are huge in romance, but I‘m so phobic about accidentally falling pregnant and or being left in the lurch/abandoned (even if in this case it‘s not intentional) that most of the time I just can‘t get past it. 6y
12 likes1 comment