Wild Star (Star Quartet) Book

Wild Star is a bodice ripper in the best sense of the word. The hero, Brent, is banished from his plantation home after his father catches him with his stepmother.

Jump ahead ten years and we meet our heroine, Byrony, has returned from 19 years in Boston where she lived with her aunt, who has just passed away. Byrony's father is an abusive lout who beats her and accuses her of being a slut. She ends up married off to an older distant cousin, who wants her to claim his half-sister's baby as her own.

(If you're following along, we have: the plantation, the abusive father, the returning daughter, the marriage of convenience and fake pregnancy.)

She bumps into Brent (literally) He gets the wrong impression of her and treats her badly. We soon dive into incest, annulled marriage, sudden second marriage, and return trip to the plantation where Byrony undertakes to end slavery in the South and save Brent from the clutches of his now widowed stepmother.

This book was great till the last quarter. While misunderstandings fuel this kind of novel, as you approach the end and the couple had fought and made up several hundred times, it gets wearing to read of them still getting it wrong. After a while, when one of the characters has turned out to do something nice for the other,you would like to see a little trust developing.

It was still a great read and one of Coulter's first books. She has always been a top notch story teller that makes you want to keep reading to see what happens next.

Riccarla