Review: The romance genre is Christian
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 3, 2014
This is a clean Christian romance. I would have liked to have known that before I started reading, and for it to have been a little clearer within the book itself that this is the second in a series (I spent the entire book waiting to find out what happened to the little girl's parents, only to discover by the marketing at the end that this was the subject of the first book.)Basically, the story is of a rancher and a schoolteacher who act like they don't like each other but secretly do. Slowly they come together, start dating, and get engaged. The story could use more conflict, so that it reads less like this happened, then this happened, and then this other thing happened--all happy and light and positive, but lacking in intrigue. Nothing major was keeping them apart until the mean mother popped up at the end, which could have added more conflict had she shown up a lot sooner. Also, the characters often blended into each other, with the manly ranchers taking long, hot baths, laughing until tears rolled down their cheeks, gushing, etc.That said, as a clean Christian romance the novel reads well enough, and is entertaining, as long as you are aware of the genre.