By request, I bring you The X’s Bride. This is a followup to The X’s Daughter and The X’s Wife books.
This is only fiction books found in our library catalog.
The Dragon’s Bride (Jo Beverley)
The Raven’s Bride (Lenore Hart)
The Doctor’s Bride (Patt Marr)
The Mercenary’s Bride (Terri Brisbin)
The Border Lord’s Bride (Beatrice Small)
The Prince’s Cowgirl Bride (Brenda Harlen)
The Prince’s Pregnant Bride (Jennifer Lewis)
The Earl’s Mistletoe Bride (Joanna Maitland)
The Admiral’s Penniless Bride (Carla Kelly)
The CEO’s Accidental Bride (Barbara Dunlop)
Acquired: The CEO’s Small-Town Bride (Catherine Mann)
Many of these are romance titles, moreso than The X’s Wife were. I guess that makes a little bit of sense, since ‘bride’ implies a wedding as a major plot point, which is generally very romantical. One thing that did surprise me in compiling this list was how many of the brides had adjectives applied to them. Of course all the adjectives are there to be shocking. A prince is marrying a cowgirl? What? She’s pregnant?! Or broke, or an ‘accident’. And I guess CEOs never come from small towns.. or something.
The counterpoint titles:
(none)
There are some with ‘groom’ in the title, but they never explicitly belong to anyone. Thanksgiving Groom, The Convenient Groom, etc. And only about half a dozen of those.
Interesting. There’s not as many of these as I thought there would be, but I guess you’re right in that the formation doesn’t lend itself to genres outside of romance.
Now I’d like to see X’s Apprentice — and a breakdown of whether or not X is male or female and if the Apprentice is male or female.
Identifying the gender of the characters is a little more tricky and timeconsuming, but I think it would yield interesting results.
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I think maybe the issue with the “Groom” is that the title becomes ambiguous or clunky?
The Dragon’s Groom might be a magical stablehand.
Then again, The Dragon’s Bridegroom would be interesting. If anyone writes that, please point me at it!
I would totally read The Dragon’s Bridegroom. I admit to being a little tempted to check out The Dragon’s Bride even.
In the past, there have been some pretty hilarious titles among the Harlequin romance novels adapted into manga. Now that I look, not many expressly say bride, but they’re still amusing anyway. Here’s an Off the Shelf column where some are discussed.
Bridegroom hadn’t occurred to me as a term to search for. The closest I come though using it is “The Bridegroom’s Secret”.
Aha. Maybe the next one I do should be The X’s Secret. That could be interesting. See who all has secrets.