Review: A Pretty Decent Story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 14, 2014
"Trouble in the Cookhouse" by Jeanne Leach is a part of the 'Brides of Glory Gulch' series and does follow nicely with the "Angel in the Saloon" book.  Both the main characters from the first book play a part in this book much as the hero played a part in the first book.This book is better in a lot of aspects than the first, but there were things at the same time that were missing from this.  Let me start off with what I enjoyed about the book.First of all, I loved how the heroine was not the typical lady nor was she some down trodden woman who needed help.  Lacey is a woman who is perfectly comfortable with who she is, how she is and with where she loves to live.  She is pretty independent, and is able to handle herself in a lot of different ways.  She isn't known for lying but she isn't above stretching the truth a little in order to be given the benefit of doubt.I was thrilled that our hero finally got his love for I did fall for this guy in "Angel in the Saloon" and wanted him to see his own happy ending.I was relieved that there wasn't much of an age difference in this book as there was in the first book, and with the way the story and the characters were written well what age difference there is, it really doesn't matter for the two of them suit so nicely together.The book takes place over a long period of time which was refreshing for this showed not only the courting but some of the marriage ups and downs that they experienced.  The story line seemed to be lacking any real conflict but that suited me just fine for I was in the mood for a light read anyway.Not on the parts that didn't thrill me. There is still some editing to do for there were several misspelled words.  This didn't bother me since I did get this book for free from Amazon when it was offered.  There is also some things that are just left hanging with one of the characters.  One character takes off and is never heard from again which frustrates me for this character was an important player it seems with his own troubles, that we don't even understand because none of it comes out.There was an introduction in the middle of the story that really didn't seem as if this character had any real importance to the story and frankly seemed out of place.As I said, there was improvement from the first book, and I suspect that future books will get even better as they come out.  I would be interested in seeing another book about the one character that took off without the reader fully understanding his reasoning to see if things are better for this character, but at the same time I would wait for the book to be offered for a really discounted price or for free before I would get it.I think Ms. Leach has a lot of talent and I would love to see her continue improving her writing style.