Reviews for The Captive Bride

The average rating for The Captive Bride based on 2 reviews is 2 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-05-21 00:00:00 Scott Farmer Another 3.5!

Review # 2 was written on 2015-04-01 00:00:00 Chris Bishop Pleasant characters survive difficulties and find love. Major conflicts are caused by each thinking the other doesn�t care. REVIEWER�S OPINION: This is what I expect from a Harlequin romance. The plot, characters, and dialogue were ok, but nothing special or different. We see life in the Oklahoma territory in the 1800s. A man and woman each have heartaches and problems. They meet and fall in love. My problem was that the couple fought and separated more than once because of vague communication and inaccurate assumptions. She was cold and distant because she thought Brice abused his former wife which was not true. He was falling in love with her but never told her. She felt the same but didn�t tell him. So each of them did things that caused problems which would never have happened if they had simply said they liked or cared about each other. That type of conflict is so overused in romance novels and disappoints me. STORY BRIEF: Elizabeth and her husband Robert moved to Oklahoma and lived in a mud hut. Robert drank too much and was abusive. He left one day and never returned. The story now begins with Elizabeth close to starvation. She discovers Brice and Celia living on a ranch nearby. They give her food and supplies. Celia is spoiled, ungrateful, sickly, and hates her life with Brice. Celia tells Elizabeth that Brice is abusive. Celia later dies while delivering a baby. Brice asks Elizabeth to help care for the baby. She does. Other settlers arrive and believe Brice and Elizabeth are married. They want the settlers to stay, so they pretend to be married. Problems and worries are caused by the preacher, one of the settlers, and the mystery about Robert�s disappearance. DATA: Story length: 292 pages. Swearing language: mild. Sexual language: none. Number of sex scenes: 4. Total number of sex scene pages: 7. Setting: probably late 1800s Oklahoma territory. Copyright: 1999. Genre: historical western romance.