Promises Reveal (Promise Series)

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If you haven't read the others, you might be slightly confused on who certain people are, but I felt Ms. McCarty introduced everyone fairly well to ensure that all enjoy the book, even a newcomer to the series.


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Speaking of former characters, I loved Gray's interaction with little Brenna. Made me wish Ms. McCarty would do a book for the two of them where they're all grown up and in love despite the obstacles that he being Indian and her being white throw their way. I do see a 5th book is being written, and I'm highly curious to know why it hasn't been published yet. I sincerely hope Ms. McCarty will continue this series. Back to Brad and Evie I do believe I loved this story every bit as much as book 1, which was my favorite thus far , if not even a bit more!

Brad was just a fascinating picture of contradiction, and as we soon discover, Evie was right about him. He IS more than just a preacher. Funny and hot, with a beautiful love story and an engaging plot. View all 22 comments. Oct 01, jenjn79 rated it liked it Recommended to jenjn79 by: Something was missing in this book for me.


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I found myself a bit bored now and again while reading and just never really fully got into the story. Promises Reveal is the fourth book in Sarah McCarty's historical western, erotic romance series, Promises.

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This book can mostly stand on its own, but if you want to understand the supporting characters and past references then you may want to read the other books in the series. In Promises Reveal Evie Washington is a twenty-five year old unmarried woman Something was missing in this book for me. In Promises Reveal Evie Washington is a twenty-five year old unmarried woman who likes to challenge social convention.

She hates the restrictions society puts on her. To avoid being sent back East, she uses her artistic skills to paint a nude portrait of hunky Reverend Brad Swanson. But when her family sees it, they assume she has been intimate with the man and demand that the two marry. For Brad, a shotgun wedding is bad enough, but he's got a dark secret that could ruin everything. He was once an outlaw and isn't who everyone thinks he is.

Marrying up with Evie puts his new identity in jeopardy. But he's finding Evie hard to resist, and along with that he has to deal with the fact that without really realizing it, he'd built a real life for himself with friends and family. Unfortunately, the past is about to come back to bite him and he'll have to put his old identity to rest before he can move on with the future.

The first three books of this series were put out from erotic epublisher Ellora's Cave, and were therefore very sexual in nature. But this installment was published by Berkley Sensation. While the book is still much more explicit and steamy than your average romance, the sexuality is really toned down and nowhere near as frequent. Personally, I was a bit disappointed in that. McCarty writes some seriously hot sex scenes and the ones in this book just didn't have the same spark as her EC books.

But that wasn't really why the book fell a bit flat for me. There was just something about Evie and Brad's relationship that came up kind of empty. I didn't entirely feel the connection to them. They never really seemed to spend much time together, getting to know one another. They always seemed to be off involved with other characters. The relationship between them just didn't develop in a way that worked for me. So I was more just reading a story than reading a romance. I didn't hate the book though. The storyline was a bit slow in the beginning but it picks up as the book goes along and got me more interested to see what would happen.

I find one of the supporting characters, Elijah, very intriguing and I hope McCarty will do a book on him. So overall, this was a fairly average book for me. I liked it enough that I'll read the next book whenever it comes. If you've read the other books in the series, they you'll probably like this one.

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Feb 08, Eastofoz rated it really liked it Recommends it for: Readers who like some humor with their Westerns. Hmm, well not as good as the others in the series but still a good read overall. This was very noticeable in the steam scenes. The steam between them is hot but it needed to go further in terms of emotional development I thought. The townspeople banding together at church and out of it was well-done. View all 7 comments. Apr 10, Dina rated it liked it Shelves: This book had a very nice beginning, with the appearance of several familiar faces from the previous books in the Promises series.

It was a hoot to see them again, and their "altercation" during, or better, before the wedding ceremony was very funny. Unfortunately, I soon found out that those secondary characters were more entertaining than the hero and the heroine. Not that there was anything wrong with Brad and Evie. They were likeable enough, but I didn't feel any connection between them. The This book had a very nice beginning, with the appearance of several familiar faces from the previous books in the Promises series. The fact is, they just didn't have enough scenes together to show me how they fell in love with each other.

Okay, there were some long sex scenes, but they left me cold. I got the impression that Brad spent more time with his friends Asa, Cougar and Clint than with Evie, and Evie spent more time with everyone else her mother, Mara, Millie, Gray, Nidia, etc. Quite frankly, Brad and Evie only got together when he was in bed - either with her, having sex, or alone, healing from an attempted murder. All things considered, I only knew Brad and Evie loved each other because Ms.

McCarty told me so. There were two secondary stories - one involving Gray Clint and Jenna's adopted son and other involving Elijah and Nidia who had appeared in the previous books too - and I really think they were unnecessary. The time spent with them should have been dedicated to showing the progress of Brad and Evie's relationship. Besides, I just didn't care for Nidia, who had been pretty much a b!

Some authors succeed in redeeming past villains, some don't. In this case, Ms. Maybe moving from Ellora's Cave, publisher of the 1st 3 books in the Promises series, to Berkley, publisher of this one, didn't do Ms. We lost the steam and didn't get anything to replace it, IMHO. Jackson's story is supposed to come next, some time next year? This story had such a funny beginning that I decided to read it. About a woman who paints a picture of the town's Reverend without any clothes on. Evie Washington was just trying to prove a point when she hung the nude portrait up of Reverand Brad Swanson.

Rev Swanson is forced to marry a head strong young woman named Evie an aspiring artist. Hide in pla This story had such a funny beginning that I decided to read it. Hide in plain sight is sometimes a good strategy. We have a minister to whom life offered so few choices that he ended up being a wanted outlaw under an assumed name. Sarah McCarty continues to grow as a writer. From the start I was kind of intrigued by the hero, Brad, he's a Reverend, but not really, but sort of really. Loved this book -- it was again one of those in-depth studies of human nature set in the times of the Old West.

I loved the "preacher man". The painting made me laugh out loud. Oct 30, Holly rated it really liked it Shelves: Unfortunately, her bid for independence backfires quite horribly and she's forced to the altar with no regard for her feelings or her sense of pride. Brad Swanson has sworn that he never touched Evie and he swears if he had, she wouldn't have painted ridiculously tiny genitals on his portrait, but no one believes him and he's prodded to the wedding by the bride's mother and a shotgun.

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If Evie Washington was just trying to prove a point when she hung the nude portrait up of Reverand Brad Swanson. If nothing else, he's going to show Miss Evie that she has some really big misconceptions about him, least of all, his reputation as a staid, God fearing reverend. The marriage between Evie and Brad starts out hesitantly, yet hopefully, but Brad is harboring a secret identity and when a man rides into town who knows all about him, he's unable to hold up the farce any longer.

He vows to protect Evie and the town that had welcomed him wholeheartedly, but when the dust settles he's determined to move on, just as he always has. Evie refuses to let him face his demons alone and with the same tenacity and spirit that landed them in matrimony, she and the town are going to do their best to show their beloved reverend that he's not as alone as he thinks he is.

Promises Reveal starts off right away with the wedding, and we're thrown right into the mix of things with plenty of hugely entertaining characters. I've never read any of Sarah McCarty's Promises books before and I've never met any of these returning characters, but the brief glimpses I did get were a hoot. The wedding scenes were funny and the wedding night was equally funny and extremely sexy.

Brad was a hot, dominating male and his position as the reverend made their sexual romps all the more naughty. Evie was a cute, flighty female with a penchant for painting and the continued bit about the portrait was really entertaining.

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There wasn't much going on with regards to an actual plot. Since I've never read previous Promises books I can't say, but I can only assume Brad has met up with the villain of this book before.


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We're thrown into the story of the villain with little warning and quite frankly, I didn't know what the heck was going on. It was okay, because the flowing interactions with the townspeople was what I thought made this book absolutely charming and enchanting. Having no clue who the wedding guests were and having minimal introduction, I absolutely loved reading the first few chapters, and every chapter afterwards.

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Sarah McCarty has a talent for spinning a good tale and her sex scenes were scorching! I highly recommend this book as an excellent read despite any failings in regards to plot. Even without it, I still really, really enjoyed this book for the laughter and charm it invoked. The only thing keeping this from being a five-star read for me was the plot.

He finds a place to hide as a minister under his own name in a frontier town. Evie is an unusual heroine. She is a free spirit straining at the restraints of resp The only thing keeping this from being a five-star read for me was the plot. She is a free spirit straining at the restraints of respectable society. Her naivety and warm heart are disguised by her unconventionality. The book opens with their shotgun wedding. She has painted a nude by guess and everyone thinks he compromised her. The scenes only get more amusing and often poignant from there.

My favorite element of fiction is character growth, and the protagonists both experience plenty of it, not just through their relationship with each other but in their growing understanding of their relationships with other characters. View all 5 comments. Dec 28, July rated it it was amazing Shelves: I forget how much I like western romances until Sarah McCarty writes another new book. So Much Life Left Over. A Touch of Flame. The Other Lady Vanishes. The Duke Who Ravished Me.

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