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Fairy Tale Romance #4

Big Bad Wolf

linda winstead jones

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MY, WHAT BIG SHOULDERS HE HAD ...

Big and wide and strong, Wolf Trevelyan's shoulders were just right for his powerful physique --- just right to hold a girl. And Molly Kincaid wondered what his arms would feel like wrapped tight around her.

AND A WICKED SMILE ...

Molly knew she should have been scared of the dark stranger when he confronted her on her shortcut through the Maine woods. She had been warned of Wolf's questionable past and sinister ways.

LIPS THE BETTER TO KISS HER WITH ...

But there was something compelling in his gaze, something tantalizing in his touch --- something about Wolf that left Molly willing to throw caution, and her grandmother's concerns, to the wind to see if love wouldn't find the best way home.

359 pages, Paperback

First published February 27,1997
Series
Fairy Tale Romance
Places
maine, 

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Format
359 pages, Paperback
Published
February 27, 1997 by Love Spell
ISBN
9780505521798
ASIN
0505521792
Language
English

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About the author

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linda winstead jones

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Linda Winstead Jones is the bestselling author of more than eighty romance novels and novellas across several sub-genres. She's easily distracted (Look! A squirrel!) and writes the stories that speak to her in the moment. Paranormal. Romantic Suspense. Twisted Fairy Tales. Cowboys. Her books are for readers who want to escape from reality for a while, who don't mind the occasional trip into another world for a laugh, a chill, the occasional heartwarming tear. Where will we go next?

More information can be found at lindawinsteadjones.com, where you can sign up for her newsletter, and at www.facebook.com/LindaWinsteadJones or www.facebook.com/LindaHowardLindaJones.

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Sweetpea
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April 17,2025
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Nice, entertaining read. I liked the fact that the heroine stood up for herself. Hero tried his best not to fall in love with the heroine, but he was fighting an already lost battle. It was a little bit repetitive.
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Zotchache
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April 17,2025
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Very cute, sweet, believable. Loved the setting: 1900s Maine and New York City. Recommended read.
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scarletdust
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April 17,2025
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5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. I’ve read so many of this author’s fairytale retellings years ago, but I somehow missed this one.

I loved it. It follows the Red Riding Hood fairytale’s main theme pretty closely, I felt. Setting is in a mountainous area of Maine and at some points New York City.

The hero, Wolf, was a perfect old school hero. His original plan was to get pestering NYC society mamas off of his back, so he decided to get married, get her pregnant, ship her off to his mountain castle home in Maine, while he would stay in NYC to carry on his rakish scoundrel ways.

He picks our heroine to be the candidate of his grand plan as he encounters her in the forest while she’s walking to her grandmothers house. This heroine was the classic ‘sunshine’. She saw only the good in the hero, was immediately enchanted by the hero, and secretly fell in love pretty quickly.

Well… the hero accidentally becomes fascinated by the heroine as well… and his whole grand plan gets slowly ruined.

I loved watching the hero slowly realize that he liked her company, to then missing her, to needing her to then eventually acknowledging loving her. We get to see it happen thru the whole book, so many feels!!

The only holdback I have to giving this a Keeper status… when the heroine overhears the hero making inappropriate comments that deeply hurt her, I felt she forgave him way too easily and quickly. I wanted her to be a bit more pissed off. I would have been more pissed off by that overheard conversation than ‘the test’ he put her thru with his friend.
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MasterAlchemist
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April 17,2025
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Review originally posted at Under the Moonlight Book Blog

I love what Linda Jones has done with all this fairy tale retelling mixed with historical romance. Two of my favorite things together. The retelling of children books with an adult twist and my favorite genre, historical romance.

Molly is on her way to visit her sick grandmother when she comes across a stranger that steps out of the woods. She is drawn to this stranger and feels no fear even when she realizes is Wolf Trevelyan, a man that has a dark past and who no one wants near their innocent female women.

Wolf feels this inexplicable pull to Molly and he needs to have her no matter the cost. What he can't explain is why she doesn't behave like any other woman he knows and why he can't buy her into her bed. Everyone has a price, he just needs to find hers.

I fell in love with this book since the first encounter between Molly and Wolf. The way Wolf was puzzled by Molly, the way Molly treated him in spite of the rumors, the way Wolf kept trying to look for an explanation as to why Molly was different, and the way Molly followed her instincts instead of what people said.

Even their time in New York at which point the story deviated from the Red Ridinghood story was fascinating and engaging and infuriating and so many more things that capture my attention and hold it firmly. I will, of course, be reading more of this stories the next one being Someone's Been Sleeping In My Bed since I was gifted that book too.
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JC_Fuggy
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April 17,2025
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Sweet and heartfelt but not for me. Listia, here it comes. =)
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StarfleetCpt
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April 17,2025
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This retelling of Little Red Riding Hood holds up very well. The bones of they story are literal but the push and pull felt current. The sexy times are tame compared to most 2022 books but overall, there is not anything cringey.
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ko-apa
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April 17,2025
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It was a great little, I different take on the big bad wolf.
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chubar
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April 17,2025
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A fairytale retelling AND it’s a non-British historical? Sign me up. For this month’s TBR Challenge, I went old school with a 1997 historical romance set in 1890s Maine. Big Bad Wolf is a deliciously sexy take on Little Red Riding Hood that held up pretty well for me.

There’s a mansion overlooking the Maine woods and its owner, Wolf Trevelyan, is pretty much the local bogeyman. Rumor has it he killed his first wife on their wedding night, and he’s stayed safely away from Maine ever since. He reportedly lives a life of debauchery in New York, and the folks in the local small town have largely forgotten he even owns property out there.

Molly Kincaid lives a simple life with her widowed mother. Mrs. Kincaid works hard taking in laundry and doing some of the smaller jobs open to a single woman in a rural town of that day. Molly’s life isn’t fancy, but she’s content living with her mother and taking provisions out to her grandmother’s cottage every day or so. Naturally, she has a lovely hooded red cape.

Things change when Molly heads out to her grandmother’s one day and meets up with Wolf in the woods. Wolf clearly has fun toying flirtatiously with Molly. It’s apparent that he intended to be scary or at least off-putting, but sensible Molly meets him head-on. Wolf finds himself intrigued and this starts a series of flirty meetings in the woods. Molly knows the stories about Wolf, but having met him, she’s (correctly) convinced that there must be more to the story.

It’s certainly believable that the sheltered Molly would develop a crush on Wolf. And Wolf finds himself so obsessed with Molly that he can’t get her out of his mind. He proposes to make her a kept woman and Molly turns him down flat. Eventually Wolf proposes marriage, and we are off to the races.

This is a partial review. You can find the complete text here: https://allaboutromance.com/tbr-chall...
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