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Book Review By Angel Manners
Brighter Than the Sun by Julia Quinn

    Charles Wycombe, despairing over his need to find a wife, gets drunk and climbs a tree, which leads him to falling on the local parson's daughter, Ellie Lyndon. Charles must marry in fifteen days or lose his inheritance. Meanwhile Ellie is being forced out of her home by a new stepmother, so after the two talk, Charles proposes a marriage of convience for them.
    Ellie accepts the proposal, but from that moment on out their is a slew of accidents that befall both of them. First a jealous cousin tries to humilate Ellie, then later we learn of a more covert enemy who rears his head later in the book. Throughout all the excitement, Ellie and Charles get to know each other better, and find that their passion for each turns their marriage of convience into love, only both find trouble admitting that to each other.


Plot & Themes
Marriage/Married Yes
Marriage subplot:
Action/suspense subplot? Yes
Action:

Main Male Character
Profession/status:
Age/status: - 20's-30's
Sex makes him

Main Female Character
Age/status: - 20's-30's
Profession/status:
Effect of sexing
Unusual characteristics:

Setting
Europe Yes
European country: - England/UK
Misc setting - Fancy Mansion

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
What % of story is romance related? - nearly 100%
How explicit is the sex? - vague references only - descript of kissing - licking - actual description of sex - Boob talk - Vagia talk - Weiner talk
Focus of story - equally on him and her
How much dialog - significantly more dialog than descript
How much sexing? - 3-4 sex acts
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