Review: Spitfire Sweetheart: A Little Romance with a BIG Love Story! All the Power of a Novel! 5 Stars!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 30, 2014
Read with care!There’s a novel packed inside this Connealy novella and itl explodes with an opening you won’t be expecting!  Forget opening with a hook! This story opens with a net big enough to catch everyone’s attention as the action runs breathlessly for the entire chapter. If you thought, “Over the Edge" , opens with excitement, wait to you read, “Spitfire Sweetheart”!  Either opening will wear you out!Indeed, “Spitfire Sweetheart” has everything I like best in a novella. First it’s a real little novel with many chapters and not just a long short story. I like little chapters because you can stop and pick up the story later at the next chapter. I also like a fully developed storyline. This novella has it all and it has a love story the develops with a slow sense of richness that you’d expect only to find in a 400 to 500 page novel. The hero is falling in love with the heroine because of who she is. I like a love story where it seems almost impossible not to fall in love with the heroine yourself. Maisy will make you love her.Of course, the hero is another ‘clueless cowboy’ who manages to turn his heartfelt compliments into two serious ‘black moments’ that almost twice kill the romance. It is so funny to see how this well intended hero infuriates the heroine with his praise! It’s classic Connealy and so is the heroine! In fact, it is almost redundant to use the term ‘Spitfire’ with any Connealy heroine. Of course Maisy is a spitfire, they all are. Oh, yes, and she’s feisty. And she can do a man’s work better than any man (expect maybe for one thing) -- she can rope better, ride better, shoot better, and even teach a man how not to be so clueless –  and do all this while being a great cook and homemaker. It is a wonder that any hero ever wins one of these super Connealy heroines. Maybe being clueless attracts her heroines.“Spitfire Sweetheart” passes my toughest novella test with flying colors! It's this:  “Did the author ‘spend’ a great novel idea writing this novella?” Absolutely. Maybe someday Connealy may do what Louis L’Amour did with many of his early shorter works – turn them into novels years later.Why not get the full emotional enjoyment of an action packed novel with just one third the reading?I just love a good novella and “Spitfire Sweetheart” is a great one!  Five Explosive Stars!