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Masking her loneliness with a fierce independence and a tomboyish behavior, Katharine Brandon catches the eye of Julien St. Clair, Earl of March, who is instantly bewitched by her. Reissue.

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Catherine Coulter lives in Northern California with her husband Anton and her cat Gilly, who's as old as her marriage.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Disturbing, Oct 8 2001

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Loves Romance "BecksinCA" (San Francisco) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rebel Bride (Paperback)

This book really disturbed me.

It started out well... Kate and Julien had great banter. Kate was a headstrong, daring young woman... Julien was quite taken with her and proposed. Then it went all downhill.

He ends up forcing her to marry him by threatening that he will drug her and drag her to the alter.

He then, after weeks of a sexless marriage, kidnaps her under the guise of being a robber... keeps her blindfolded. He then proceeds to molest her until she finds pleasure (while blindfolded and thinking he is some strange robber man... like any woman would manage to find pleasure in that sort of situation). He then proceeds to rape her while she is screaming and crying and trying to get away... figures out she isn't a virgin and goes into a rage.

This whole experience makes her realize she was raped as a child...

This is just plain awful. This isn't your normal 'rape' type scenario in typical romance novels... you know, where the woman is secretly attracted and wants to have sex, but is pushed into it... Katharine is actually brutally attacked in this book. Its quite frightening and I didn't enjoy reading it at all.

I feel like the 2 main characters, which started out so promising, deteriorated halfway through the book.

I don't recommend it.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Improvement, Jan 2 2012

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This review is from: The Rebel Bride (Mass Market Paperback)

After being told by many of my reader friends to check out Coulter's books, I decided to pick up one. For me it was the writing that distracted me from the story. Halway through the book, I didn't feel any zest for the characters or what they were going through. I think next time I will check out one of Coulter's more recent books because this is one of her earlier works and my guess is that her writing had improved vastly since then.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Five stars for craft, zero for appeal, April 9 2004

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Elaine McCarthy "ECM" (Baltimore, MD) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rebel Bride (Paperback)

I've got to agree with the reviewers who think rape has no place in a romance novel, particularly rape committed by the "hero." What outraged me the most about this facet of the book isn't the rape per se, however, it's the fact that Coulter would have us believe that the "hero"/rapist is able to give the heroine an orgasm while she'd tied down, blindfolded, and doesn't know it's her husband attacking her. What a sickeningly repellant thing to write! I've loved some of Coulter's other work, but this offended me deeply. (I'm getting to the point where I want to approach any book of hers with a whip and a chair, not sure whether I'm going to find a pussycat or an angry tiger between the covers!)

To give the devil its due, I have to admit that I couldn't put The Rebel Bride down. It's extremely well-crafted; any aspiring writer could learn a lot from the way Coulter keeps the plot racing along, totally centered on the two main characters and their conflict. There's not a dull moment, nor a bland one, though the emotions the text evokes are often very unpleasant ones. Given the subject matter, however, they're not as bad as they might have been; more along the lines of uneasiness and distress than outright horror.

I guess my overall feeling is: Read it at your own risk!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific!
At first I wasn't going to purchase this because I thought I'd read the 1970 version. But this one was well-worth the risk. The story is swift and the characters real. Read more

Published on Aug 27 2003

2.0 out of 5 stars Certainly Not Ms. Coulter's Best
I first read 'The Rebel Bride' in its original Signet imprint. Several years later, I picked it up in this new edition. Read more