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Janes life sometimes seems to be in shambles for a while now. She’d caught her boss killing someone for money, and turned him in. Now she’s got no job, has to go through a trial as a witness, and has no prospects to get a job because of the situation she’s in. To top it all off, the trial has been highly publicized, so she hasn’t had a private life either. Now it looks like it’s finally just about over and her life is starting to turn a corner, when she finds a tapestry at a second had store. After she bought it, she starting to have fantasies about the men in the tapestry, and the dreams feel more real than any dream she’s ever had. When she wakes up and finds her self in a land called Javara, she has a hard time believing that it’s all real. Even more surreal, she has to choose two of the brothers to be her husbands, and in a short time she has to decide whether to stay in this land or go back to her life.
Zaren and Bador have despaired of ever finding their own woman. On Javara, women are so scarce that they have two men, one husband and one consort, and tapestry brides are a once in a lifetime occurrence, or so they thought. When Jane shows up, it’s in a time of tragedy, because Jarmon, one of the twin brothers, was injured in a battle. She seems to be just what Zaren and Bador need to make it through the tough times ahead. But if she stays, which one will she chose as her primary husband, and will they be able to persuade her to stay?
Jane is an interesting character with a lot of problems to deal with back on earth. I liked her, and thought that she had to be a strong person to see through the trial of her boss, not to mention and all the things that happens to her when she arrives on Javara and meets the brothers. She has a difficult time choosing which brother will be her primary husband. She’s finds her self with the unusual dilemma of having to choose between the two men, and she reacted like I think most women would. I liked the two men in the story; Zaren was strong and defensive, while Bador had a gentle side that appealed to me. One of the great things about the characters was that they all had hidden depths that you find out about as you read the story. Bakra Bride is definitely a keeper!
Reviewed by Julie Bryan
for The Road to Romance
March 25, 2006
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