Princess Bride The Books

This story was wonderful! I've read several of Jane's books and this one is my favorite so far. Emotionally engaging battle of wills keeps you turning pages until the very last one. Well Done, Jane!

Loved it and its sometimes rare you read in a harlequin present about a woman who is 30 but don't let that turn you off this is a really good book it draws you in and i can't wait to read about the last sister good book for you collection

The second in the Princess Brides Series. A very steamy love story of Princess Chantel and her Greek bodyguard, Demetrius hired to protect her from a death threat.

Chantel was under the thumb of her in-laws who are holding her child hostage and is receiving threating letters from a would be killer.

A very romantic love story, very steamy loves scenes and written as only Jane Porter can tell a story.

I highly recommend this as well as the first in the series, The Sultan's Bought Bride.

BOOK SUMMARY FROM EHARLEQUIN:
The royal plane is about to crash! Princess Chantal Thibaudet is rescued from the wreckage by Demetrius Mantheakis,a renowned international security expert,with wealth and a reputation to match.He insists that Chantal go with him to his private Greek island,where he can protect her.

But even princesses can become pregnant when they allow themselves to be swept away by a commoner - especially one as arrogant and sexy as Demetrius.... And a right royal scandal is about to break loose!

This was my first Jane Porter book and I have to say I'm hooked! This was truly a romance book with a strong alpha hero and a vulnerable heroine. The story itself was captivating and well written. Since the summary is already written by another reviwer, I will just say that this is a must read.

You know while reading this book i wondered what the title has to do with the book but towards the end it made sense...
I thought it was a good read, I like Nicolette very strong and independent woman all in all a good lovable story about a princess and king.....

This is a really great romance - Jane Porter does a great job again. It is great to see how the hot sheikh convinces her that he wants her for who she is - wild past and all. She is dumbfounded when she realizes that it was her he wanted all along - not her sister as she had been led to believe (and who she was impersonating!) - it was all a scheme cooked up because he knew it was the only way to get her there. There are some really cute scenes where he baits her by pretending to critisize her "sister" (really her) by talking about rumors and other personality traits and claiming to find them offensive and unacceptable. Very hot and very romantic - makes you want to be swept off to the desert by a handsome sheikh!

Determined to save her older sister from another arranged marriage, Princess Nicolette Ducasse refuses to allow her widowed sister to go through the wedding to Sultan Malik Roman Nuri of Baraka. With a plan in mind, Nicolette travels to Baraka pretending to be her sister, with the idea that she'll go there, meet the King, and try to back out of the agreement, only to find that she only has two weeks to get ready for the wedding and the man she was supposed to marry was unlike any man she has ever met or been with. But things aren't as she expects.

Malik knows who Nic is when she walks off the ship, but it amuses him to let her play her game and see what she comes up with next. For each request she has, he has a counter request, with the end being the same -- she will marry him when the time comes and their marriage will be a real marriage -- not one just on paper. But will Nic go through with the marriage, and what happens when she finds out it was all a setup, that there never was a marriage agreement between her sister and Malik? Was that just a plan Malik devised to get her to come to him?

THE SULTAN'S BOUGHT BRIDE is a wickedly fun read! The chemistry between Nic and Malik is red-hot and scorching! Nic is an independent woman determined not to follow the rules of old, and Malik is determined to win her at all costs. I zipped through the book within two hours and can only hope that Ms. Porter won't keep her readers waiting long for the next book of this series. I enjoyed it immensely!

Mad

The first in the Princess Brides series. A Princess and a Sultan who you are led to believe their meeting is to protecct Nicky's older sister. Some twists, fun, pretense and a wonderful love story. I highly recommend it and encourage you to purchase the next in the series, The Greek's Royal Mistress", Chantel's story.

BOOK SUMMARY:
Princess Nicolette Ducasse refused to let her sister marry Sultan Malik Roman Nuri of Baraka. So she traveled to his faraway kingdom to tell him the wedding was off, never expecting that Malik would be one seriously sexy sultan! Resisting him would be hard.

But Malik made it clear that if they shared a bed the wedding was on. He was a modern monarch in many ways - except when it came to his bride!

Delighful book!! Ms Rimmer creates the whole enchilada this time--a country, a royal family, even social mores of that country and uses Norse Tales, too!! King Orski wants his daughter to come home to Gullandria for a visit only he says but she and her triplet sisters have been raised by their mother in CA since early childhood. The King sends his Viking Warrior Hauk to bring his-easiest-to-get-along-with daughter Elli, who's a kindergarten teacher, but she teaches the King some lessons on having to wait for her to come in her own time and she uses that time well. Hauk, with all his gorgeous tattoos, also has some lessons for Elli while having to wait for her-he teaches her about their homeland, his great love of it and ends up loving her too. This is the first of the Viking Brides trilogy in Aug '03 PRINCE AND FUTURE..DAD? and Oct '03 MARRIAGE MEDALLION will be released--I'm eagerly awaiting Liv and Brit's stories

When Elli Thorson comes home to find a big, buff Viking in the living room of her Sacramento apartment, she's shocked. Hauk FitzWyborn was sent to Sacramento by Elli's father, King Osrik of Gullandria, to bring Elli back to Gullandria by whatever means necessary. Elli and her two sisters were brought to California as infants by their mother while Elli's two brothers were left in Gullandria with their father. The girls have had no contact with their father since they were infants. Both of Elli's brothers have died so her father wants one of his daughters to return to their homeland and marry the man who will be the next king.

Hauk is prepared to kidnap Elli and force her back to their homeland but Elli convinces him to contact her father and let her talk with him. After talking with her father, Elli agrees to go willing to Gullandria after she ties up some lose ends. The King instructs Hauk to keep Elli in his sight at all times so she cannot change her mind and run off. The next four days are torture for Elli and Hauk as they spend almost every minute together fighting their growing attraction to each other.

This book was great. Elli and Hauk were meant to be together and you really routed for them to overcome the class prejudice they faced and end up together. Hauk was one of the best romantic heroes I've read in a long time. I cannot wait for Liv and Brit's stories.

I don't know the order of the books in the series, but they are all great and you don't have to read them in order. I loved all the characters in the book. This is romance at its best. Find this book and all the others. But you won't be able to buy my copy. A definite keeper.

Leanne Banks does it again! With her great style for wit, wisdom and a generous kick of sensuality, Leanne delivers a contemporary romance that tugs the heart strings and moves the spirit. The characters are loveable, the plot is both engaging and amusing, and, as usual, the chemistry is pure dynamite. Do not miss this classic by Leanne Banks

Description from the book back cover:

Every girl dreams of marrying a prince ... Just when Emily St. Clair was about to march down the aisle, she discovered that her 'perfect' groom was a complete toad! Well, she'd just forget about happily-ever-after. From now on, Miss Prim-and-Proper was going to live footloose and fancy-free! Officer Beau Ramsey was more cowboy than county sheriff. But somebody had to keep an eye on the pretty little troublemaker who had every bachelor in town all fired up. Deep in his heart Beau knew that if anyone was going to give sweet Emily a wedding night, it was going to be him!

If you're a fan of Liz Fielding's writing than you'll enjoy this one a lot. I usually like her 'boy next door' ordinary heroes and heroines, but this 'ordinary' princess plays along the same line. A satisfying read and a well-done happy ending. From engagement, to wedding, to honeymoon. She sends the happily-ever-after home and leaves you with a smile.

"The Princess Mouse: A Tale of Finland" begins with a simple premise, which is that in Mikko's family when young men get to the age when it is time for them to marry they find their future brides by cutting down a tree and following it points. It so happens that in this particular farm family the two sons are old enough to marry so the father instructs them to follow the family tradition, declaring, "That's how we've done it, and that's how we always well." The older son knows exactly who he wants to marry and cuts down the true so that it points right to her door, but when the younger son, Mikko, cuts down his tree it points into the deep forest. His brother mocks him, wondering if Mikko's sweetheart will be a wolf or a fox. But Mikko walks off into the forest declaring "I'll find who I find."

What Mikko finds is a mouse who is more than happy to be his sweetheart. Strangely enough, Mikko agrees and returns home to tell his father he has found a sweetheart. The tale now becomes interesting because Mikko's father has arranged a series of tests for the sweethearts of his two sons to take to prove their worth (do not ask why, you know what the father will say). From the title of the this story being told by Aaron Shepard you can probably guess how it is going to turn out in the end, but that does not distract all that much from the charm of this tale which is illustrated by Leonid Gore. You have many of the traditional elements of such folktales, but there are some nice unexpected twists that will delight readers of all ages.

Shepherd based his retelling of this tale mostly on story of "The Forest Bride," which I actually prefer as a title, but also on the story of "The Mouse Bride." In the back of the book you will find the simple music for "The Song of the Princess Mouse," written by Shepard. In fact, if you visit Shepard's homepage you can find not only a recording of the tune for this song but a reader's theater script along with another test of the brothers' sweethearts. So there are some nice resources to go with this folktale for teachers to use. Shepard has authored other folktales, including "The Maiden of Northland: A Hero Tale of Finland."

Sweet love story with a traditional happy ending. Will always be agreat for middle schoolers, especially Girls!!!!!A great buy! Definitly Worth While!!

On of my favorite movies to sit down and watch or come into the middle of and pick it up at that point is The Princess Bride. Ahhhh, such a tale that everyone loves. Who doesn't have a favorite character (or two). However, this review deals with the book that the movie was developed from.

The book of The Princess Bride is self described as the abridged telling of S. Morgenstern's classic tale of true love and high adventure. However, rather than being an abridged story, this is the full story (sorry if you're looking for Morgenstern's tale, a little lie). That said, the tale is told as a writer who's abridging a classic tale from his youth that his dad read to him when he was sick. In `abridging' Morgenstern's work, Mr. Goldman inserts his own comments, whether it's his memory of when his dad read the story to him or when he explains why he removed part of Morgentstern's work.

The Good
The book follows the movie (or is it the movie follows the book, a little hard to say) very well. All of the scenes you love in the movie are in the book. Additional data is provided usually, but it doesn't hurt what we saw in the movie in the least. In addition, we're given additional back ground data on Princess Buttercup, Wesley, and all of the major characters. I was particularly happy with the additional information on Inigo and Fezzik. While I enjoyed them in the movie, the book brings them forward! Especially when you learn what Fezzik went thru.

The Bad
Sometimes Mr. Goldman is a little long winded. I know he was trying to capture a writing style, but I think he took it a little to far. Particularly when describing the Prince and his Zoo of Death. As a matter of fact, this caused me to put the book down for a little while.

The Rating
Boy, on the front half I was only thinking 3 stars. I mean it was a little slow, Mr. Goldman spent a fair amount of time coming up with the idea of abridging the book, acquiring the book, and writing the abridged work. However, once Princess Buttercup is kidnapped the story picks up and the story steps up to 4.5 stars. Given this, I'll call this one a 4 star book. The strength of the book is what we've seen in the movie, quick action with an excellent story that everyone loves.

The Princess Bride is William Goldman's adventure novel, even though the subtitle is "S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure." Goldman is better known for writing the screenplays for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President's Men. He also wrote the novel Marathon Man, which did for dentists what Psycho did for showers.

Goldman frames the novel as though he discovered and abridged the fictional Morgenstern's work to make it accessible to a modern audience. This is well and good, except that Goldman's periodic interjections typically drag the novel to a halt. And his fictional, thirty page introduction to how he came across the story is downright stifling. If the reader is aware that the context for the novel is entirely fabricated, Goldman comes across as self-aggrandizing (although he addresses this in a roundabout way by accusing Morgenstern of being self-aggrandizing).

Like Goldman says, nowadays, if you're reading the book, odds are you saw the movie first. Many of the clever lines from the film were lifted word for word from the book. The modern day frame of the story works much better in the film.

For the record, this is not, particularly, a book for small children - it has torture, drunkenness, suicide attempts, occasional profanity, and Goldman's fictional discussion of the collapse of his fictional marriage, among other things.

Some versions have the first chapter of the purported sequel, Buttercup's Baby, which comes with a tiresome 20+ page introduction of its own. The chapter itself isn't particularly good either.

The Princess Bride is a very clever, very entertaining book, but Goldman, with his framing, ultimately gets in his own way.

RECOMMENDED

THE BEST BOOK IN THE WORLD! It's even better than the movie, and that's saying a lot... because I really like the movie. It's one of the few books that have made me laugh out loud numerous time. The characters and settings are great.

One of my all-time absolute favorite books. Like most of the world, I fell in love with the movie (which is one of my all-time absolute favorite movies) first, and then delved into the book. The book is essentially the same (as William Goldman wrote the screenplay), with all the wonderful characters (my favorite has to be the tormented revenge-obsessed sword wizard Inigo Montoya), great Monty Pythonesque humor, incredibly clever adventures (the Cliffs of Insanity, the Fire Swamp, the Pit of Death) and the beautiful romance between Buttercup and Westley. Sure, it's not the deepest book ever written, but its so much fun. Probably one of the greatest modern fairy tales/fantasy stories. But there are a few things that the books as that the immortal film lacks. First of all, more information (particularly concerning Inigo and Fezzik). Probably most obvious is Goldman's clever style. The fake abridgement allows him to make comments on this beloved story from his childhood and to make (depressing) commentary about how real life just isn't as good as sword fights and elevated love. Ironically, he's also satirizing fantasy authors that use their stories to tell some sort of political message--ruining the great fun of an exciting story. Goldman's voice and prose is also definitely worth the read. He writes an exciting and climatic and humorous tale seemingly without effort. He plays a great game with the audience. But the best thing that the book has (in the later editions), is a chapter from Buttercup's Baby. This chapter--all about the events after PB, some wonderful flashback having to do with my favorite Inigo, and dealing with the birth of Waverly and the death of Fezzik (that's the name of the chapter, so I didn't spoil anything)--makes me thoroughly eager for the sequel, if it should ever emerge.

OK, so am I the only one who's actually been to Florin? It's a lovely country with the most beautiful women in the whole world.

If you are ever there, go to the library and check out Morgenstern's original. Since every Florinese person has read the book hundreds of times there are a ton of copies at the library and you can always get one. Unfortunately, there's not enough demand in the US so they won't export it. The original is SOOO much better. Goldman seems to think he has all the answers to what's good and what isn't. The long section of all the festivities before the wedding is dripping with sarcasm and hilarity and yet Goldman feels we Americans can't read it because we'd be bored. Well boo on Goldman! I loved that chapter!

Anyway, the original would get 5 stars if they'd ever export it to the US. Save yourself the anguish if this shameless abridgment and spend a few hundred dollars and fly to Florin, you'll thank me later.