Sherbrooke Twins, The (Bride)

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Dear Reader:

The Sherbrooke family saga continues with James and Jason Sherbrooke, identical male twins who look exactly like their beautiful Aunt Melissande, and not at all like their father, the earl, which riles him no end.

James, twenty-eight minutes older than his brother, is the heir. He is solid, is James. He's a student of astronomy, rides like a centaur, and, unlike his brother, Jason, enjoys learning the ropes of managing his father's estates. He no longer sows excessive wild oats, as his neighbor, Corrie Tybourne Barrett, a brat he's known since she was three-years-old, looks forward to doing since she turned eighteen. When she nearly shoves him off a cliff, sneering all the while, James hauls off and spanks her.

A promising start. Then, unfortunately, the earl, Douglas Sherbrooke, is shot at. This leads to Georges Cadoudal, a Frenchman in the employ of the English war ministry with whom Douglas had dealings with some years before. But Cadoudal died in 1815, fifteen years before. Were there children who might want revenge against Douglas? But the question is why: Georges and Douglas parted friends, at least Douglas believed that they had.

Adventures compound; Corrie hurls herself into the thick of things. As for Jason, not quite a half an hour younger, he loves horses, wants to start a stud farm, still sows more oats than a man should be allowed, but finally meets a girl who stops him in his tracks. And then what happens?

You will have to listen to the book to find out. I hope you enjoy yourself. The characters are rich, colorful, and a hoot to boot. The mystery will confound you.

Do let me know what you think. Write me at P.O. Box 17, Mill Valley, CA., 94942 or email me at readmoi@aol.com. Keep an eye on my web site at www.CatherineCoulter.com.

Catherine Coulter [signature]

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Read it Instead.......2005-11-09

I've only listened through the 3rd CD and I can't seem to get into the story. I don't know yet if its the story line or Ms. Flosnik's grating voice. But her voice interpretation for James, Jason and Douglas (and all the men) make them sound ridiculous. Ms. Flosnik (as well as all female readers) should not try to sound like men -- just read it straight. I think I'd rather read this one. I don't recommend the sound recording.

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The Sherbroooke Bride its not

The Sherbrooke Twins (Bride)
Catherine Coulter
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ASIN: 0515136549
Release Date: 2004-02-24

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zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.......2007-07-29

I read the whole book waiting for it to get good. Too many storylines for such a short book. If Ms. Coulter wanted this to be an good book she would have been better off spending more time developing the relationships between the characters. Corrie is the only character that was adequately developed (note adequately development is just that merely adequately) You dont get the opportunity to feel the stresses and the emotions b/c you dont really understand the characters. Granted this is a mere romance novel and one shouldnt expect much. But this is definitly the worst book I've ever read. I felt more emotion out of the stoic Edward Wilson in the Movie "The Good Shepard" Fortunately "Jason" was developed a little more towards the end to allow "Lyons Gate" to be a potentially decent Romance nove. I'm definitly going to go read the reviews on it first before I waste my time, though.

A toss up.......2006-08-09

The Sherbrooke Twins
by Catherine Coulter

Reviewer: Pamela Ackerson, author of Home of the Braves trilogy

I never thought I would see the day when I read a book by Catherine Coulter and was disappointed. The first 20 or so pages was great and then the book draaaaaaagggged. I almost didn't bother to finish reading it. In my head I kept thinking, this is Catherine Coulter it has to get better than this. So I read on and fought my way through the center of the book and zing! About three-quarters of the way through the book, There she was! I knew Ms. Coulter would show her head and writing expertise! The last quarter of the book, woohoo. That's what I was expecting. A great read. Was it worth reading through the slow part of the book? Yeup.

Yummy.......2006-03-28

The Sherbrooke twins, James and Jason, are the sons of Douglas and Alexandra from The Sherbrook Bride. James is attracted unbelievably to the annoying girl next door and he doesn't quite know how to handle her growing up. When she is compromised by spending the night taking care of an ill James, they have to marry. He is secretly delighted. The wedding night verges on being a comedy. Jason, has a bit of a romance in this story as well, but his story will come later. These twins are hot.

Sorry excuse for a Sherbrooke Book.......2005-05-31

This book was so boring. I was very, very disappointed. The relationship between the twin (what's his name) and Corrie seemed almost incestuous. She was more like a kid sister to them. I never, ever saw the relationship and the passion grow or ignite between these two. Waste of time. Catherine Coulter played her readers with this mess. She could have had more respect for us than to put this book out there.

The Sherbroooke Bride its not.......2005-02-20

"The Sherbrooke Twins" is the lastest in the "Bride Series." Jason and James Sherbrooke are young men of London and joining them this season is Corrie Tybourne-Barrett a neighbor of the twins. But the Sherbooke family have problems, serveral attempts have been made on Douglas Sherbrooke's life and it looks like man from the family's past is behind it.
I loved earlier books in the "Bride Series" but the "The Sherbrooke Twins" did very little for me. Too me, it seem to me that Ms. Coulter had little interest in turning out a decent book. I loved earlier regency books by the author, but "The Sherbooke Twins" did very little for me.

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Sherbrooke Twins, The (Bride)
Catherine Coulter
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Sherbrooke Bride Series: The Sherbrooke Bride, The Hellion Bride, The Heiress Bride, Mad Jack, the Courtship, The Scottish Bride, Pendragon, The Sherbrooke Twins, Lyon's Gate (Set of 9)

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The Sherbrooke Twins
CATHERINE COULTER
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The Sherbrooke family saga continues as dashing twins James and Jason seek their father's enemy.

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Catherine Coulter , and Anne Flosnik
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The Sherbrooke Twins: A Sherbrooke Novel

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A New York Times Bestselling Author

The Sherbrooke family saga continues with James and Jason, identical twins who look exactly like their beautiful Aunt Melissande, and not at all like their father, the earl - which riles him to no end. James is the heir, and, unlike his brother, enjoys learning the ropes of managing his father's estates. Jason, who wants to start a stud farm, still sows more oats than a man should be allowed. When the earl is mysteriously shot at, the adventures soon compound.

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The Sherbrooke Twins
Catherine Coulter
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Release Date: 2004-02-24

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Everyone loves a wedding...

Nothing lifts our hearts like the joyous peal of wedding bells. Or the sight of a happy couple being showered with confetti and good wishes. Now the most exciting new names in romantic fiction and the bestselling author who started it all—escort you down the aisle to a place of honor at four glorious celebrations of everlasting love:

Kathleen E. Woodiwiss reintroduces us to the beloved characters from The Flame and the Flower including Jeff Birmingham, who seals an impetuous proposal with one brief, precious and passionate kiss.

Catherine Anderson calls us to meet a tempestuous pair of wild western hearts, in a tale of a frontier revenge that backfires.

Loretta Chase melts our hearts with a story of an unconventional young woman's offer of marriage to a "mad" and presumed dying earl.

Lisa Klepas shows us how true love will always win in a romance about one stubborn lady—and the persistent suitor who opens her heart.

So come join the celebration and experience Three Weddings and a Kiss.

Love for now...and always.

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Everyone loves a wedding...

Nothing lifts our hearts like the joyous peal of wedding bells. Or the sight of a happy couple being showered with confetti and good wishes. Now the most exciting new names in romantic fiction and the bestselling author who started it all -escort you down the aisle to a place of honor at four glorious celebrations of everlasting love:

KATHLEEN E. WOODIWISS reintroduces us to the beloved characters from THE FLAME AND THE FLOWER including Jeff Birmingham, who seals an impetuous proposal with one brief, precious and passionate kiss.

CATHERINE ANDERSON calls us to meet a tempestuous pair of wild western hearts, in a tale of a frontier revenge that backfires.

LORETTA CHASE melts our hearts with a story of an unconventional young woman's offer of marriage to a "mad" and presumed dying earl.

LISA KLEYPAS shows us how true love will always win in a romance about one stubborn lady -and the persistent suitor who opens her heart.

So come join the celebration and experience THREE WEDDINGS AND A KISS

Love for now...and always.

Everyone loves a wedding...

Nothing lifts our hearts like the joyous peal of wedding bells. Or the sight of a happy couple being showered with confetti and good wishes. Now the most exciting new names in romantic fiction and the bestselling author who started it all -escort you down the aisle to a place of honor at four glorious celebrations of everlasting love:

KATHLEEN E. WOODIWISSreintroduces us to the beloved characters fromTHE FLAME AND THE FLOWER including Jeff Birmingham, who seals an impetuous proposal with one brief, precious and passionate kiss.

CATHERINE ANDERSONcalls us to meet a tempestuous pair of wild western hearts, in a tale of a frontier revenge that backfires.

LORETTA CHASEmelts our hearts with a story of an unconventional young woman's offer of marriage to a "mad" and presumed dying earl.

LISA KLEYPASshows us how true love will always win in a romance about one stubborn lady -and the persistent suitor who opens her heart.

So come join the celebration and experience THREE WEDDINGS AND A KISS

Love for now...and always.

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One good story, three also-rans.......2007-08-02

Anthologies are curious things. With different authors you often find you're reading several entirely unrelated stories, possibly linked around a theme but with little else to enable them to sit happily together. This book is the same, with two stories set in America and two in England, most around the English Regency period (although I'm not sure of the dating of the two set in America) and all featuring a wedding but apart from that there seems little to tie them together. As an introduction to the works of these authors this is a useful book but sadly this reader only found one story worthwhile in the collection.

FANCY FREE
The first story, "Fancy Free", by Catherine Anderson surprised me by not being set in the Regency period in England, which is what I thought this book was about (although this was my mistake as it doesn't specify English Regency on the cover, it was just the featured authors that made me assume this). Instead it was set in America in some unspecified time in history (my knowledge of American history isn't enough for me to know when) and features Clint Rafferty, a cattle rancher, and his family of seven younger brothers who finds himself getting married, rather unexpectedly, and at the end of a pistol, to Rachel Constantine. So how can people settle down after a shotgun marriage when they know very little about each other and when Rachel is well aware she's not want Clint wanted? He wants someone to make a home but her cooking skills are somewhat lacking, especially as she can't see anything due to excessive short-sight and that she believes if she wears her spectacles men will be appalled by her ugliness. I felt the realism of this story was sorely lacking in terms of how Rachel could cope with her short-sight, especially when we learn she couldn't read a recipe - short sight would meant that she COULD read paper close to, it's distance things that would be a problem. Somehow Clint and the boys don't seem to mind her disasters and very quickly she becomes important to them. But Rachel has a low self image and doesn't understand this and when another woman comes to the house she can't handle it and runs away - Clint and she have to decide what is important to them.

This was a pleasant enough story but there wasn't any great character depth and I did have some problems overall with Rachel's domestic skills, especially bearing in mind her eyesight problems. Sometimes she seemed almost blind, other times it was clear she must have been able to see reasonably in order to function in public without her spectacles. It was an OK read but nothing that special and didn't inspire me to read anything more from this author.

THE MAD EARL'S BRIDE
The second story, "The Mad Earl's Bride" by Loretta Chase, was rather more engaging. We are given a brief history of Dorian Camoys' youth under his autocratic grandfather. Dorian knows that he is beginning to succumb to the same brain disorder that killed his mother - after she had spent some time in a lunatic asylum. He returns to Dartmoor to live his last months in peace but his peace is shattered when the other close members of his family die and he inherits the title of Earl of Rawnsley and finds one of his distant relatives trying to help arrange the succession. Dorian is asked to marry Gwendolyn, a young woman who badly needs his money in order to build a hospital. Gwendolyn wishes she had been born a man as she wants to be a doctor but no men except for one doctor ever take her seriously. Her experiences in learning about medicine mean that she can help Dorian in his last months and so they marry. However there is much research to be done about his condition and as it begins to worsen they begin to plan for the future and to learn about each other.

This story has links to "Lord of Scoundrels" and some of the characters from that story appear in this. It's a very enjoyable read and although a short story it seems surprisingly detailed. I very much enjoy Loretta Chase's writing style although her Regencies occasionally slip into Americanisms, but overall this is a good story with a likeable hero and heroine and a rather different theme from the norm.

PROMISES
"Promises" by Lisa Kleypas is another story set in England in the Regency period. Lidian Acland, our heroine, has been holding a torch for the improbably named Chance Spencer for a year whilst he does the Grand Tour. However her mother (along with pretty much everyone else) thinks Chance isn't worth her devotion and tries to encourage Lidian to look at other men. None interests her until she meets Eric de Gray, heir to an Earldom and squiring his sister at various parties. She and Eric clash a number of times as he tries to get her to see Chance for who he really is and Lidian wants to hang on to her dream. There's another mini romance within this story which isn't particularly detailed but is enjoyable.

The writing in this story was fine and the setting (for example the hero and heroine take a walk in Vauxhall Gardens) was well described but unfortunately I didn't get into the characters in this story. Eric seemed over-harsh and not very warm to Lidian, Lidian seemed rather stupid about Chance when we are told she is intelligent. Her behaviour is also not appropriate for a woman in her situation, going out unchaperoned etc, and her supposed constancy towards Chance is also dropped surprisingly quickly. Still it was a reasonable enough read if not particularly deep.

THE KISS
The final story is much shorter than all the rest (the first two accounted for over two thirds of the book) at only 29 pages. Written by Kathleen E Woodiwiss it was evidently a follow-up to another previous story (which I haven't read) which detailed the relationship between Brandon and Heather Birmingham. This couple's relationship is referred to repeatedly in this story and we also meet them in this tale.

"The Kiss" takes place in Charleston, America, and is about Brandon's brother Jeffrey who finds himself unexpectedly coming to the aid of a woman whose guardian is about to sell her to a man. Jeffrey buys her instead, takes her home and then realises that he hasn't necessarily helped her situation as he will have compromised her by buying her in public. He resolves this in a fairly obvious way and then the story ends. It's a 'love at first sight' story which I couldn't always believe but then a story this short can't go too much in depth. However there was one significant irritant - the author seems to have rather a small stock of adjectives and she massively over-used the adjective 'manly'. We had 'manly shoulders', 'manly scent of his cologne', 'manly form', 'manly costume', 'manly desires' and the rather bizarre 'manly tread' as he walks across the room - all in 29 pages. The other descriptions were all rather basic, 'narrow hips', 'slender waist', that kind of thing. This writing style proved rather irritating to this reader and the rest of the story wasn't really engaging enough to make it truly enjoyable.

In conclusion this is a rather bitty collection of stories. The only real stand-out story is Loretta Chase's one, the other three are ultimately fairly forgettable and seem to have either plot problems or writing disappointments. I understand this book won a number of awards but I'm not really sure why as I felt it was rather a disappointment.

Chase's Story Is The Only Reason This Anthology Deserves 4 stars.......2007-02-19

This anthology contains stories from Kathleen Woodwiss, Catherine Anderson, Loretta Chase and Lisa Kleypas. The cover shows Woodwiss as the marquee author in the anthology. However, once you read the stories, it is clear that Loretta Chase's The Mad Earl's Bride is the shining star in an otherwise banal collection. I'm giving this review 4 stars because of Chase's story. For those who have never read Chase's books, this is a great example of her talent. For those who are already fans, you will not be disappointed.

The anthology starts with Catherine Anderson's Fancy Free. I like westerns and I had high hopes for this one. However, it is forgettable. The heroine is irritating and the situation which leads to the wedding was inane. The heroine was so inept at everything, it was incomprehensible that the hero and his family, who desperately needed a competent woman to help at the family farm, would grow so attached to her. This story merits only one star.

Loretta Chase's The Mad Earl's Bride, by itself, is worth the price of the anthology. The story is unique and so are the characters. As with many of Chase's novels, the heroine is smart and capable and the hero is flawed but compelling. The romance between them is gripping and it is marvelous how Chase is able to capture this in a short story. This story deserves more than 5 stars.

Lisa Kleypas' Promises is adequate. I am a fan of Kleypas and I thought that this was not one of her better efforts. After reading Kleypas' story "I will" in the Wish List anthology and many of her other books, I had higher hopes. In "I Will" Kleypas described an interesting and steamy romance in a short story. Unfortunately, Promises lacked interesting and compelling characters. The story line was also boring. I still give this story 3 stars purely on Kleypas writing ability.

The worst of the stories was Woodwiss' The Kiss. I do not understand why she is the marquee author. The story just sucked. It seemed unfinished. There was absolutely no romance or chemistry between the two characters and I wasn't sure why it was published. It is absolutely the worst story I have read and if not for Chase's story, I would've demanded my money back from the publishers. I give this no stars.

On my KEEPER shelf.......2007-02-09

As far as I am concerned all of the authors came through with flying colors. It is one I will keep and read again. Love Woodiwiss.

A mixed bag -There are better anthologies out there.......2006-06-29

I really enjoy reading anthologies. It gives me the opportunity to sample several authors at a time. This one, unfortunately, is not so good. The only reason I gave three stars is due to Chase's The Mad Earl's Bride -an excellent story which saves this anthology. The others are just blah. I've read Kleypas (she's one of my fav's) before and Promises is not her best work. The same could be said for the others. Woodiwiss The Kiss was good but ended very abrubtly.

So if you want to read a good anothology get Where's My Hero (Kleypas is excellent in this) and Scottish Brides. They are both really well written romantic historicals.

Disappointed in Kathleen.......2006-03-22

Although this gave me an opportunity to read other authors, I was disappointed in Woodiwiss' work. She sounds tired. I will look for her next piece with greater expectations. If you are a Woodiwiss fan, you may also be disappointed in this short story.

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One good story, three also-rans

Three Weddings and a Kiss

Manufacturer: Avon Books
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Binding: Hardcover

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Anthology includes "Fancy Free" by Catherine Anderson, "Mad Earl's Bride" by Loretta Chase, "Promises" by Lisa Kleypas, "The Kiss" by Kathleen Woodiwiss.

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One good story, three also-rans.......2007-08-02

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