A charming Regency-era tale of a duel, a dilemma, and undeniable desire…A Holt Medallion nominee for Best First Book First published by Kensington Publishing Corp.THE WEDDING DUELIt was meant to be a duel like any other–defend a lady’s reputation, teach a scamp a lesson in honor, and win the day. But from the first moment Keene Davies raises the cursed pistol things go awry. The shot goes … things go awry. The shot goes astray, he wounds his best friend, and his displeased father threatens to disinherit him–unless he marries a scandalous little hoyden named Sophie.
Unbeknownst to Keene, Sophie Farthing has grown into a lovely young woman, albeit one still inclined to fall into scrapes. Her high spirits and tendency to ride hell bent for leather lead her into more than one disaster, but she’s bound to make the most of this unexpected marriage to Keene. She’s determined to teach her husband that honor begins with the heart, not the handle of a pistol, and that passion should go hand in glove with love…
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Drenn, wretched mind numbingly bad. The heroine is a half wit. Seriously, she runs out in the street in the middle of London. She uses twine to prevent someone from falling off a roof. That being said she recognized a roofied drink and acted accordingly. But the absolute kicker is everyone else is an idiot as well. You have the melodramatic nodcock who doesn’t understand how pregnancy works. The insipid cypher who blends so seamlessly in the background as to be not there. The moron,the half wit married who straight out doesn’t ask her if she’s pregnant. And the only one that has a fair brain is pissed and self involved. The one that has any brains should have said the two sentences that resolved the “conflict” at the beginning of the book and saved ten thousand words of tedium. And the half wit should have died. I would have cheered for that.
The Wedding Duel by Katy Madison is a fantastic historical romance. Ms. Madison has provided readers with a well-written book loaded with outstanding characters. Keene is told by his father that he won’t inherit any properties other than the entailed estate. Instead his cousin Sophie will inherit everything else. Sophie’s a country girl with strict parents and has been crazy about her cousin Keene her whole life. Sophie and Keene’s story is loaded with drama, misunderstandings, humor, action, sizzle and suspense. I enjoyed reading this book and look forward to reading more from Katy Madison in the future. The Wedding Duel is book 1 of the Dueling Pistols Series but can be read as a standalone. This is a complete book, not a cliff-hanger.
Fun to read
This book’s plot was based on the flimsiest misunderstanding, and that misunderstanding was only resolved after hundreds of pages of boring back and forth between the characters. The pretense for their difficulties was only resolved in the last eighth of the book, I’d estimate, and I couldn’t even distract myself with the supporting characters because their stories weren’t developed in a way that made me care about them either. Wouldn’t recommend this one.
Love it
Unexpected ending. Enjoyed reading the story. And like the character interactions.
I really enjoyed it.
I really wanted to tell the characters to communicate with each other. There is a major misunderstanding that flows through the story and if they had just talked to one another, asked the right questions, the whole thing would have been resolved. but maybe then there would not have been a story.
Great depiction of family customs of marriage and property. Strange happenings due to strict father and pious husband. Amazing how love wins out in the end.
Definitely a good read
Charming characters and quite an original plot line.
Thoroughly enjoyed visiting another era! Characters were entertaining and engaging.
Great job ! Well written and clean read. A very good book from beginning to end !
I grew quite frustrated with the characters for what I can only describe as their stupidity, but I liked them enough to have to finish the story.
Loved it, couldn’t put it down.
Sophie and Keene, distant cousins and then they married. Suddenly its a very different relationship with both having unanswered questions about each others lives.
I will admit to being highly amused at times and at others wanting to kick both of them ‘where the sun don’t shine’. If only they would both sit down with each other and have a serious talk instead of listening to other people, but if they did then we wouldn’t have had this delightful story.
It really was a fun read and I enjoyed every second of it.