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Rachel HauckZondervan / 2014 / ePubOur Price$3.494.6 out of 5 stars for A March Bride - eBook. View reviews of this product. 18 ReviewsAvailability: In StockStock No: WW42099EB
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IolaNew ZealandAge: 45-54Gender: female4 Stars Out Of 5Read Once Upon a Prince firstFebruary 27, 2014IolaNew ZealandAge: 45-54Gender: femaleQuality: 4Value: 3Meets Expectations: 4This is the fourth book in the A Year of Weddings series of novellas from a range of of contemporary authors such as Denise Hunter, Rachel Hauck and Deborah Raney (not surprisingly, the plan is for a series of twelve books). Each novel appears to be a standalone story, although the two I've read so far both link to other books by the author.
The story starts with Susanna and Nathaniel on the final countdown to their wedding. Susanna has spent the last ten months living in the kingdom of Brighton (*rolls eyes* at the coincidence that this fictional kingdom is named for a town on the south coast of England), and everything is going to plan ... except that Nathaniel has been somewhat distant. Is he having second thoughts? No, but the Senate have just announced a law change that might force Susanna to reconsider ...
I found A March Bride a little harder to get in to than the first novella I read in the series, probably because it's the sequel to Once Upon a Prince. While it works as a standalone story, the beginning is awkwardly bogged down with positioning Nathaniel as a British-without-being-British King (with a whole host of posh friends), and Susanna as the redneck from Georgia (and it did irritate me that she kept calling herself a redneck). It also appeared as though it was going to turn into a heavy-handed allegory of our citizenship being in heaven, but it didn't (thankfully).
While I did enjoy this, I think it would have been more enjoyable if I'd read Once Upon a Prince first–and if the beginning of A March Bride hadn't been quite so awkward. Once I got past that, the story improved and was able to focus on the central question: is Susanna prepared to give up her American citizenship, the one thing she still felt was hers, in order to marry Nathaniel? As she works through this decision, Hauck makes some interesting points about love , relationships, and our place as the Bride of Christ.
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AnnieAge: 18-24Gender: female3 Stars Out Of 5A March Bride by Rachel HauckMarch 24, 2014AnnieAge: 18-24Gender: femaleQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 3Published by Zondervan, A March Bride is a continuation from a previous book that Hauck has written. I was actually planning on reading the book first before this; so I am sorry to say it was really difficult reading this book. I did not get far in it and I will not continue. The concept is amazing as all wedding novellas but once again the need to know how the two met and the plot to the engagement is a constant reminder of what is missing.
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HeidiAge: 25-34Gender: female2 Stars Out Of 5Read the full-length novel firstFebruary 21, 2014HeidiAge: 25-34Gender: femaleQuality: 4Value: 4Meets Expectations: 1This novella would probably be great for someone who had read the full-length novel the characters are from. As a stand-alone, it threw the reader into the chaos of the royal wedding plans and doubts of the characters without establishing any relationship, chemistry, or romance. I felt like an outsider who had walked into the end of a movie, and I didn't have a connection to the characters because I missed 90% of the story.
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