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Title: The Bride's Gift

Author: Raine Cantrell

Narrator: Eunice Wong

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-13-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Romance, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Nicholas Dowling's mail-order bride is not what he'd hoped for - she's too young, too delicate, and far too superstitious for a pragmatic man like himself. But not even Brianna's untamable spirit can't cast a shadow over her luminous beauty, and before long the blaze of their attraction grows into something neither one of them was expecting.

Critic Reviews:

"Raine Cantrell is a superb storyteller whose remarkable talent for recreating the West will hold you enthralled." (RT Book Reviews)

Members Reviews:

First Hatred and Then Love

A peculiar story of a newly wedded couple, that came together through an arranged marriage. Nicholas Dowling, an extremely short tempered laborer working in a mining camp somewhere in Mexico, gets a new wife through his cousin Patrick from Ireland. On his first night, Nick discovers that his new Irish wife Brianna, is too young, illiterate, and not suitable for his manly figure, but too beautiful to be resisted. The entire story revolves around the couple trying to understand each other and please each other until one day Brianna decides to gift a surprise to her dear husband, given by her mother. The surprise comes in the end in the form of riches grown in a garden grown by Brianna on her self. This is when, the duo discover the immense love that each other have developed in such a brief period.

The initial hatred among the new couple during the first interaction slowly transforms into true love over a couple of days. This transformation of hatred to love is quite well paved by the author. The English language used is more that of native Irish mix and is entertaining sometimes. One wonders why the new bride was hiding the precious gift from her husband until one reaches the end of the story.

My rating is 2.5 out of 5

SURPRISE! The gift is amazing.

This is one of those novels that seem to go on forever and get nowhere. The plot is tried and true: a lovely young woman who becomes a mail order bride (this time from Ireland) to a rancher in the early days of the American West. Her husband is disappointed that she is young and beautiful rather than the "workhorse" he had wanted as a helpmate. She proves herself worthy of the task and shapes up as quite capable of the difficult tasks put before her. He is one of those early ranchers without a great deal of funds who must make the delivery of the herd to meet his needs. Throughout the book, our heroine has worked secretly to keep her dowry from Ireland alive--it is a patch of grass from her homeland. While her husband is away for several weeks delivering the herd she has to fend off wild animals, suffer through a drought that threatens not on the garden they are dependent upon for food, but her precious grass as well. Physically stressed by carrying water in buckets up a steep cliff, she digs her own well! When he returns he is furious that she has spent her energy on the garden and especially the grass and throws it over the cliff only to knock her over as well. There in is the gift. You must read it to find out what that is!!!!

Sweet

Sweet novella. I really liked the heroine, Brianna, Nicholas the hero was kind of a jerk at the beginning. He thought Brianna was too young and he wasn't very nice to her. Nicholas also didn't like her Irish superstitions and fought with her about them. They settled in and fell in love.