The Virgin Bride Said, "Wow!"

The Lockharts of Texas #4

by Cathy Gillen Thacker

The Virgin Bride Said, "Wow!" by Cathy Gillen Thacker released on Mar 23, 2001 is available now for purchase.

Genres: Romance

256 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published April 1, 2001

About the author

Dear Readers,

The love stories in my family have always been fodder for romance novels.

My maternal grandmother and grandfather simultaneously ran a business together and raised four daughters, long before it was an accepted thing to do.  Grandpa O’Dell ran the gas station and the barber shop; Grandma O’Dell managed the grocery and cooked for customers.  They were true partners and madly in love and parted, tragically, way too soon when he succumbed to cancer when he was in his early fifties.  Grandma grieved deeply but eventually picked herself up, started a new career as a cafeteria chef, and eventually found deep romantic love and happiness again, in the form of a second marriage.

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Reviews

[Girl Reading Books Too · Rating 1 out of 5]

OMG! This book is horrible. And I HATED the heroine. I got sucked into getting this book to read because ... y'all THAT title! I just wanted to see what it was like. I did not expect it to be so god-awful and full of cliches - like the hero and heroine needing to get married before anyone would give them a loan for their business. Geez! This book was originally published in 2001, not the Dark Ages!! And the heroine. Ugh. Horrible. I hated her from the get-go. She's reckless, impulsive, shallow, immature and just plain annoying. And a cock tease. And fickle. And has a reputation for being someone who dated a lot of guys and played the field, someone who was not serious or responsible. I want to think that underneath all that perhaps she has some depth to her but then after impulsively being married to the hero she agrees to go on a secret date with an ex-boyfriend because he wants to practice on her before asking out the woman he really likes. I lost it when she agreed on the date after having only JUST gotten married to her business partner that afternoon, teasing him sexually and then bailing on him. Oy! Do not read this book. It's not worth the $2.99 I paid for it. I was going to ask Steve to read it to do a Manview on it but it's so horrible I'm not even sure I want to subject him to this atrocity. He might DNF it too. The Virgin Bride might have said Wow, but I sure as heck did not. Now I need to go read an author I like to get this bad taste out of my mouth.



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[Amy Dale · Rating 2 out of 5]

In the last 30 pages it finally got interesting. Cute/swoony parts but a real slog to get there. Characters weren't particularly great either.

[June · Rating 5 out of 5]

Finally finished the Lockhart's of Texas. These family series are always fun to ready. And try to keep track of who's who since I've now also read most of the McCabe's of Texas and the Laramie Texas series which are about the children of the people in this book.

Brady has to have a running ranch by a dead line and Kelsey is the person he's chosen to go into partnership with to accomplish it. Only to get some money to finish off their goal, they get backed into a corner and decide to marry. Twists and turns cause all kinds of havoc but in the end, true love wins. A fun story to read that keeps you cheering for them to finally get it all figured out.