Review: Engaging Brooke
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 26, 2014
I confess to being a little disappointed as I first read Loving Laney, book 3, and hoped that by reading book 2 I would see more about the competitive Laney who was an Olympic medallist equestrienne. Sadly no.These turn out to be linked series books each about different characters written by different authors. So I have to take each on its own merits.Brooke lives on the ranch land next to the Browards and in one of those wills sometimes found in books, her father left the land to herself and her sister provided they both were married within a month.  Brooke's sister is already married so she gathers her courage and approaches the young man her older sister once dated, Jameson Broward. She explains the situation and says it would only be a fake marriage for a year. Brooke has her own career as an artist in pottery but neither she nor Jameson want to see the land bought up for redevelopment.The story is well developed from that point and the character growth is shown well. These two young people already like each other but can they manage to make a fake marriage real?  There is a good sense of place with local landscape, weather and foods brought to us.I am confused by the cover pictures. In Loving Laney, Laney Broward is depicted as a stunningly lovely lady of colour, but in this book's cover her brother is depicted as a fair-haired lad. Maybe there is something I missed.