You May Kiss The Bride / Lisa Berne
1,001 Days of Awesome Reads - Day 210 - #FanGirlFriday
On Fridays I’m mostly focusing on authors who’ve been around for a while and who have given me real reasons to be a #FanGirl.
I was privileged to read this lovely debut when it released in 2017, and I’m been a Lisa Berne superfan ever since.
She is a gorgeous writer, and her books are the perfect combination of charm, wit, intelligence and nuanced emotions, and each title is distinct yet lightly connected. The characters are beautifully rendered and unique, and the storytelling is wonderfully smart, vivid and textured.
I love them all, but YOU MAY KISS THE BRIDE is the first and a great start to a terrific series.
Happy reading! xoxo
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You May Kiss The Bride | Lisa Berne | The Penhallow Dynasty
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YOU MAY KISS THE BRIDE
Lisa Berne introduces you to the Penhallow Dynasty—men destined to marry, but hesitant to love.
Wealthy and arrogant, Gabriel Penhallow knows it’s time to fulfill his dynastic duty. All he must do is follow “The Penhallow way”—find a biddable bride, produce an heir and a spare, and then live separate lives. It’s worked so well for generations, certainly one kiss with the delectable Livia Stuart isn’t going to change things. Society dictates he marry her, and one chit is as good as another as long as she’s from a decent family.
But Livia’s transformation from an original to a mundane diamond of the first water makes Gabriel realize he desperately wants the woman who somehow provoked him into that kiss. And for all the ladies who’ve thrown themselves at him, it’s the one who wants to flee whom he now wants. But how will he keep this independent miss from flying away?
About Bobbi Dumas
Hi! I’m Bobbi and I read, review, blog about and advocate for fiction written by women. I’ve written for NPR, Barnes & Noble and The New York Times Book Review, and wrote over 600 reviews for Kirkus and also penned the weekly Kirkus Romance (and Women’s Fiction) blog for a few years before parting ways with them in 2020. I believe that romance novels are (mostly) by women, for women, about women and of interest to women, and offer more hope, female agency and positive change than any other literary genre.
Women write great books, yet typically get less respect (and less review ink) than men do. While I do occasionally read books by men, I try to spotlight books by women and hold them up for the attention and appreciation they deserve.
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