The Bride By Julie Garwood Review by Emmy Grant "The Bride" starts strong by introducing the reader to some sound advice: pay your taxes or there will be consequences. This wisdom, however, is rapidly forgotten, as we are then taken on a journey of an insufferable Mary Sue with daddy issues, who is more out of it than some of my clients on a cocktail of street drugs. Our heroine is forced into a marriage to what appears at first glance to be an overgrown mindless baboon, who expresses his opinion that women are property and should be treated as such at every opportunity he gets. It is, of course, quickly discovered that our baboon does have human emotions, and Ms. Mary Sue immediately wants him to love her, after knowing him for a whooping four days. The plot then becomes a grand mash of cliches, held together by unbearable cheesiness, with not an original thought in sight. The reading experience feels like the author wrote this as some sort of a joke, or a challenge to fit...
