The Hostage Bride – Book Review

Author : Janet Dailey

Genre: Romance Fiction

Year Released: 1981

Publisher: Silhouette Books

ISBN: 0-671-73693-0

I borrowed this book from a local lending library to read while travelling from Trichy to Chennai. It was a short one day trip. I did not wanted to half read the book, as I always do, so I choose a short novel. If I put it in my bookshelf, half read, I even forget to return it to library, which happened many times.

This short novel is all about extraordinary beautiful blond lady Tamara James, a bookkeeper in Signet Machines and Masculine Bickford Rutledge, chief of Taylor Business Machines. Due to her mom’s suffering, she had borrowed twenty thousand dollars from the company without anyone’s permission, hoping she can repay it shortly and silently. But his family situation, made her financially more unstable. In this situation, Bick acquires Signet Machines, which made tamara’s nerves stiff, frightened about her job if new owners found about  the money from accounting files.

Surprisingly, Brick wants her at first sight and tries to flatter her. She refuses all his wooing. After sometimes, Brick came to know about the money. Taking advantage of her poverty he forces her to marry him. He didn't have to marry her to attain her. Even after knowing his interest on her is not his soul, she accepts the offer because she doesn’t have any alternative other than saying yes.

He doubts her all the time and she gets her meager respect only when in bed. Bored of his behavior she gets out of his house and lives in someplace where he could not find her. In Four months of her absence, he realizes he is in love with her. He finds her and confesses he can’t live without her. The rest no need to specify. They lived happily ever after.

If you have free four to five hours it is worth reading this book, rich in vocabulary and flawless plot.

Rating : 6/10