Moriah's Mutiny

by Elizabeth Bevarly

PAPERBACK

Genres: Romance, Harlequin

384 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published May 1, 1991

About the author

Elizabeth Bevarly was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky and earned her BA with honors in English from the University of Louisville in 1983. Although she can’t recall ever wanting to be anything but a novelist-oh, all right, she toyed briefly with becoming an archaeologist, until she realized how awful she looked in khaki and flannel, and there was a brief fling with the interior decorator thing, until she realized she had trouble distinguishing chintz from moiré, and… (Where was I? Oh, yeah. My brilliant career.) Anyway, her career side trips before making the leap to writing included stints working as a bartender, a waitress, a movie theater cashier, a soap-hawker for Crabtree & Evelyn, an apparel-hawker for The Limited, and a bridal registry consultant for a major department store. She also did time as an editorial assistant for a medical journal, where she learned the correct spellings and meanings of a variety of words (like microscopy and histological) which, with any luck at all, she will never use again in this life.

She wrote her first novel when she was twelve years old. It was 32 pages long-and that was with college rule notebook paper-and featured three girls named Liz, Marianne and Cheryl, who explored the mysteries of a haunted house. Her friends Marianne and Cheryl proclaimed it “Brilliant! Spellbinding! Kept me up past dinnertime reading!” Those rave reviews only kindled the fire inside her to write more.

Since sixth grade, Elizabeth has gone on to complete more than 60 works of contemporary romance. Her novels regularly appear on the USA Today and Waldenbooks bestseller lists, and The Thing About Men was a New York Times Extended List bestseller. She’s been nominated for the prestigious RITA Award, has won the coveted National Readers’ Choice Award, and Romantic Times magazine has seen fit to honor her with two-count ‘em TWO-Career Achievement Awards. Her books have been translated into two dozen languages and published in three dozen countries, and there are more than ten million copies in print worldwide. She has claimed as residences Washington, DC, northern Virginia, southern New Jersey and Puerto Rico, but she now resides back in her native Kentucky with her husband and son and two very troubled cats where she fully intends to remain.

Reviews

[Val · Rating 5 out of 5]

If only real life could give us such happy endings. 😍 The sisters were down right b*tches that I would have loved to push over the railing at any given moment. 😁 I totally get Moriah thinking that it's easier to keep your mouth shut because they are going to think their opinion is the only right one anyway. (It's like that with my family too). 😐 The treatment at the hands of her family was much the same for me and that is what makes this book a favorite of mine BUT I'm still waiting for my captain to sail me away.

[Lavender Lee McClanahan]

It was ok

Because there was not really any action in this book other than the title to be honest it was not good.

[Janet · Rating 3 out of 5]

Also a SSE #676 = 3.5 stars

[Barb · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a story about a woman who has been raised by mother, father, and 3 older sisters. Their main concern in life is money. No one has ever utter the word 'love'.
Moriah has never known love, been showed love, nor expressed love. Now she meets Austen. He loves her, but hasn't told her yet. She thinks him shallow. The fact that he is the Captain of the chartered cruise ship doesn't seem to play into her field. Being an anthropologist is boring. But its the only life she knows. She now asked herself the one question she never bothered to ask. "What do I want
for herself, her life, her future?"
I loved Austen's character. He was happy with his life. Content with the way things were going. Had the beautiful islands to watch, as well as friends that mattered to him. He was confident. He has taken life by the horns and is living the way he wants.
Moriah is a stuffed shirt. She wears her hair a certain way. He clothes are a certain style. Her mannerisms are down pat and constant. She loves the work she does. But you can tell that she is not in sync with her colleges and her students. She loved writing and research. She was an acomplished author. One book released and another in the works. Plus one on the burner.
My personal reaction to Moriah and Auten are that neither one has ever been in love. Austen had a loving family however. Moriah had a family and money. Now that they have both confronted something new, in the form of a relationship... they didn't know what bit them. I gave this a 4 star.

[Sylvia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Modern

[Sandra · Rating 3 out of 5]

Needed more action. Less description.

[Gail · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really liked this one a lot. Good characters, good conflict, good writing, Good Read.