Thursday, July 2, 2015

Review - Ever After: A Nantucket Brides Novel


Ever After: A Nantucket Brides Novel
Nantucket Brides Trilogy, book three
by Jude Deveraux
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pub. Date: June 23, 2015
ISBN: 978-0345541857
Pages: 358
Buy Link: Amazon

Review:

Now available to purchase in bookstores is the third installment in the Nantucket Brides Trilogy - Ever After by bestselling author Jude Deveraux. It might seem a bit odd to find a male reader writing a review for a contemporary romance, but the fact is that I grew up reading any book that I could grab my hands on, which included the Jude Deveraux romances that my mother owned.

Typically, the author uses characters that are related to the Montgomery and Taggert family that first appeared in the 1980 novel, The Black Lyon, which was published a year before I was born. The characters that appear in the Nantucket Brides series are in related to the same family line.

Ever After centers on Hallie Hartley, a young woman who just got her physical therapist license. Life hasn't been too easy for her. Her mother died when she was young and her father and stepmother died when she was a teenager, leaving her alone to raise her stepsister Shelly, who’s a spoiled brat.

Just as she's about ready to start a new job, she finds a huge surprise in her living room - Jared Montgomery. It seems Hallie had inherited an old house in Nantucket from a distant relative and Shelly had been posing as her, so she can steal the house. Shelly had also agreed to let to Jared's cousin, James Taggert, stay on the first floor, so she could help him recover from his knee injury, which is really weird as Shelly knows nothing about physical therapy. Once Hallie and Jared figured out what was going on, she quickly agrees to travel to Nantucket and help his cousin as it's the only way to get away from her stepsister.

Of course, the one thing Hallie never expected was to find James Taggert attractive and for him to be attracted to her. As she helps him recover from his knee injury, she learns about his heritage and a little about her own. A Montgomery/Taggert wedding approaches on the island and both Hallie & James must heal their past wounds if they want a future together.

This is a completely different novel than the first books in the series (True Love & For All Time), as there is a supernatural twist involving a few ghosts. While this might turn off some readers, I'm a sucker for a good haunted house story, so the side-plot didn't bother bother me at all. While the romantic plot is somewhat predictable at times, I did like both the main characters, which both Hallie and James had an intriguing back-story and the chemistry between them really stood out. Overall, Ever After: A Nantucket Brides Novel is an exciting conclusion to the trilogy and it makes a perfect summer read.



*Disclaimer - I received a complimentary copy in exchange for my honest review. All opinions are my own.


About the Author:

Jude Deveraux is the author of forty-two New York Times bestsellers, including Moonlight in the Morning and A Knight in Shining Armor. She was honored with a Romantic Times Pioneer Award in 2013 for her distinguished career. To date, there are more than sixty million copies of her books in print worldwide.

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