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The Reinvented Miss Bluebeard
The Reinvented Miss Bluebeard
Author: Minda Webber
KOOKS, SPOOKS & THE INFAMOUS DR. BLUEBEARD — When your father is not only an infamous pirate but the husband of six vanished wives, respectability's hard to come by. That's why Eve invented herself a husband. How else was a nineteenth-century gal to follow her dreams and become one of those newfangled psychiatrists? Certainly she will never run T...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780505527066
ISBN-10: 0505527065
Publication Date: 7/3/2007
Pages: 352
Rating:
  • Currently 3.1/5 Stars.
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3.1 stars, based on 42 ratings
Publisher: Love Spell
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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stephanie13w avatar reviewed The Reinvented Miss Bluebeard on + 300 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
I liked the other stories in her series but this was so not interesting at all. I found Eve to be quite annoying, honestly I just wanted to slap her.
reviewed The Reinvented Miss Bluebeard on + 46 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
While I have read other books in this series, and was excited to get back into it, the novelty wore off halfway through. Her prose and puns are fun, but halfway through the book,it started to become a bit redundant. I did enjoy the characters though.

IT was a good weekday read, but am trading it.
barbsis avatar reviewed The Reinvented Miss Bluebeard on + 1076 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
After caring for her crazy ailing werewolf grandmother, Eve Bluebeard decided her life's ambition was to run an asylum for the supernaturally insane. After med school she opened The Towers with an ogre butler, an ogre gardener and a varied group of patients, including a vampires bride afraid of blood, a lunatic leprechaun forever burying a non-existent pot of gold, Frederick Frankenstein who has an inferiority complex, Jane Van Helsing a famous vampire hunter married to a vampire, a gargoyle afraid of heights and Hugo a hunchbacked dwarf with a bell fetish. And if these characters didn't provide enough levity, Eve has created a husband to satisfy society (after all a single woman cannot run an asylum all by herself, heaven forbid!) When said pretend husband appears on the doorstep and commences to interfere in patient treatments and her private life, Eve is beside herself. Her father, Captain Bluebeard himself, has sent an actor to impersonate her husband in an effort to get her away from the crazy people and back on the high seas having babies.

I was enjoying this pun-laden book until Adam Griffin appeared. I didn't find him amusing at all. As a matter of fact, I found him condescending and nervy as hell not to mention the fact that he has absolutely no respect for Eve or her profession. And don't even get me started on his interfering in patient treatments...after all he wasn't a real doctor. I certainly understood that he felt that Eve was his soul mate but IMHO he went about snagging Eve completely wrong. I totally lost interest in Eve and her plight and had to force myself to complete the book.
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