The historical romance genre is not universally known for being progressive or socially conscious. Which is odd, because from the first novels looking at marriage prospects from a female point of view, they've all of them pushed the boundaries in little ways and big. Pride and Prejudice waged war with inheritence laws that women still suffer under in the UK today. Those many novels of governesses demonstrated the dangers of depriving girls of education, money, and the ability to seek employment....

1.5 starsA long time ago, I liked to collect books written by my favorite authors. Consequently I bought this book along with two others, because I love Meg Cabot.SO my review of this book, Where Roses Grow Wild and Educating Caroline. Which is ok, because these three historical romances have pretty much the same plot anyway.These books really pissed me off. Like to the point where I'm done with historical romances, (except I'll still read Georgette Heyer.)I am just so SO sick and tired of this

Well, I’ve finally hit the end of the Patricia Cabot era of Meg Cabot’s career. It’s been a journey of low lows and somewhat tepid highs. Kiss the Bride is the second best of them in my opinion, but it’s not particularly shippy and the quality otherwise isn’t sufficient to raise it any higher than pretty good.Kiss the Bride has a cute premise, but it doesn’t deliver on the shippy feels. Emma Van Court married James’ cousin Stuart, a young curate. Stuart caught her eye with his intense passion fo...

I think this was more of a 3 1/2 but I just felt that there was a lot of internal thought and not a lot of action... I just kept waiting for things to happen... but it a lot of it seemed to be inside not out. Cute... I want to try her Educating Caroline so maybe that will get a better feeling for me of this author.

2.5/5 stars. This one wasy just okay for me. I've read much better by Ms. Cabot, so I suppose that's why I'm grading this one so harshly. I thought the story started out pretty interesting, but it really dragged for me throughout the last 1/2 of the book.

I liked it. Honestly, there was nothing remarkable though. But it was a good book to read during a blog break. Note, I probably won't actually write a full review for this one.

Enjoyable but not her best 3 starsKiss the Bride is the story of Emma Van Court, a young lady who elopes with Stuart Chesterton, with whom she has had a long time infatuation. Despite both families being against the match Emma and Stuart marry and head for Scotland where the pair live as an impoverished curate and his wife in the small village of Faires, Shetland. When Stuart dies, his cousin, James Marbury, Earl of Denham, who was the most vocal against the marriage, comes to Scotland to fet

I forgot to put this here when I actually read it, and all I remember is that there was some religiosity/morality/righteousness to the characters and I didn't really get into it. But I may be mixing this up with another story.

Pure escapist fantasy. This book was exactly like eating a box of chocolate truffles on the beach.

Very cute. there's no such thing as a bad Meg Cabot book. Just varying levels of enjoyment. :)

Cozy fluff, if you like that sort of thing.

Simple, predictable, yet entertaining.

I took a full star off this book's rating for a weird paragraph near the end where the heroine seems to decide that actually the problem is that poor people don't want to strive enough to improve their lives.

Just a head's up, the next few books I'm gonna be reading are all Meg Cabot ones. I've decided that I have to read all of her books before I can move onto another author.This book was cute and sad in all the right places. Emma has moved to Faires (fictional place in Shetland) to marry her childhood sweetheart. However, not long after they're married, he dies. His cousin, James, comes to bring the body back home so that it can be buried in the family tomb and is surprised to see Emma is still the...

Meg Cabot has a way of story-telling that makes readers feel warm and comforted. There is a humor in how she presents her characters (main and secondary), that I find endearing and memorable.Kiss the Bride is about orphaned Emma, raised in London society by the charity of her relatives, but then runs off with an Earl to get married in a tiny village in Scotland (got to love those highlands). Stuart, who Emma admires for his desire to become a priest and help the needy, dies and leaves her pennil...

Caveat: this is a review of a HISTORICAL ROMANCE NOVEL. so, therefore, the strong virile man/virginal lady is an accepted premise. because that's what's "historically accurate". and there are good and bad ways of dealing with this premise. I won't accept that in my modern romance novels, because hellooooooo, anything set later than 1920 needs to have a female character who understands orgasm. /CaveatI've read three of Meg Cabot's historical romance novels in quick succession, now, and have liked...

I read this book because I was a fan of the author's books for teens, and I was not disappointed. Emma Van Court is an orphan raised by her wealthy aunt and uncle. At eighteen, she elopes with Stuart Chesterton, a well-meaning but impractical man who takes his new wife to live with him on a small Scottish island village, much to the anger of Stuart's cousin, James Marbury, the Earl of Denham. Within a year, Stuart is dead, and Emma is struggling to survive on her meager salary as a schoolteacher...

We begin in London, 1832 the heroine Emma Van Court wants to marry Stuart Chesterton, a very religious minded man. Emma intends to make her plans known to James Marbury, Earl of Denham. James is not all happy about the idea of Emma marrying his cousin. He does not believe Stuart will be able to support them. Emma gets no support from her family either to be married to a curator so her and Stuart elope and move to Scottish Hebrides.[return][return]When James receives word that Stuart died six mon...

4/18/09 - The book is still really cute. I love romance novels where the guy falls in love first. In this case, he fell in love with her quite some time ago, only to have her marry his like-a-brother-to-him cousin. The cousin dies after about 6 months... and now he FINALLY has his chance. A nice reread.4/17/09 - Reading it again for the TNBBC Spring 2009 Challenge. :)July 2006-ishI remember this book was really cute. I love books where the guy falls in love before the girl... They're great! :) I...

The heroine is Meg Cabot's typical; lots of thinking, self-thought, independent and kinda modern-chick (no matter how ancient the setting was). The hero, in the other hand, is brave and well-described as a dream man (well, at least for me :p).The book is a page turner since Meg Cabot kept all the secret exactly at the last chapters of the story. I couldn't stop reading until I found the answers. However, the reason behind Clara & Lord McCraigh's drama wasn't relieving as I thought it would be. K...

This was the first romance novel I ever owned because I discovered that it was written by the Princess Diaries author and was desperately trying to dig up everything she had ever written. Oh pre-teen me, you did not know what you were buying. EXTREMELY RISQUE for a twelve year-old, but as I grow older I can't help but find large swathes of it excessively charming. I always appreciate a romance novel where the heroine has a defined interest and goal of her own outside of marriage, and Emma defini...

I picked this up yesterday from a used book store - curious to see some of Meg Cabot's early work. It was hideous. Repetitive language was my #1 complaint. I felt like things were re-hashed and I found myself complaining to be pages "I get it! move on!" It feels like a book quickly and unskillfully written- I didn't laugh, cry, or even care at any point of my reading experience. I'm not usually a regency romance reader (save few exeptions) but as a fan of Meg, I just had to try it. This is not o...

This is Meg Cabot, my daughters favorite. She took it on a trip to Australia to give to another Meg Cabot fan, so I read it on the trip too. Very adorable story about a Duke who doesn't tell the heroine he loves her, and she marries his cousin and goes off to do missionary work in the Hebrides. Without spoiling how, he gets a second chance and really has to work for it as she is humorously clueless.

While this was still a fun book, I don't think that I'd consider it one of Meg Cabot's best. Her lead characters were not as fleshed out as I would like to see, and the level of madcap action was relatively low. That said, a decent Meg Cabot title is still miles above many other genre titles, so I'll continue to seek out as many of her books as I can find.

It was ok. Really easy read and fun but got REALLY redundant. The main character would freak out and talk about something she just realized and then when she FINALLY tells you, it turns out to be something that you already knew/she already talked about. It was almost like the author just wrote it and never read through it. But besides that, there was great mystery and dialogue.

The witty writing is Cabot's signature alright.But it wasn't enough for me to carry this book with its too much drama and gossips and other tiring things.I think I know now why this book was really hard to find. Both hard and soft copy. Not Cabot's better moment.Frankly if this is not from her I would probably stop reading on early pages and rate it one star. But I tagged 2 as it is.

Cute story, if a little superficial. The age difference really bothered me though. I don't know why it had to be so wide of a gap (10 years! And she's 18/19!!). There didn't seem to be any reason why such a difference was necessary, but I tried my best to ignore it. This makes me drop the book from 3.5 stars to 3.

My first read-book in 2017!At the beginning I was trying to just finished the book, without put any hope in it. Why? Because lately, I was disappointed by Meg's books. They were so predictable. The formulas were only recycled. But this book, I found it cute enough. Despite the death of Stuart and the questionable hate Emma had for him, I really enjoyed the story. So ... 4 stars from me.

Fun piece of fluff. Patricia Cabot aka Meg Cabot has a gift for creating likeable characters that get themselves into all sorts of trouble. Fun romance read - great for when you have a tummy ache or are just all stressed out.

Meg Cabot, in the guise of a Patricia, wrote this light, silly, fluffball of a Regency novel - a young widow in a remote Scottish island is plagued, due to the terms of a will, with a plethora of odd and determined suitors. It works for the beach, though.