Review: A little rushed
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 24, 2013
I did enjoy this book and the premise of finding someone you can spend the rest of your life with.  I did realise that it was a short story due to the reviews however, like other people, I was very surprised by how short it was as it did seem to be a race to the finish.Story is told mainly from Anna's POV who is a generous Christian woman who considers herself to be quite plain and therefore unlikely to find a man to marry.  When the new pastor joins the church and they meet he is so good looking Anna believes he would have no interest in a girl like her.  Of course Dan is interested in Anna and on the first day of meeting he knows he is serious about pursuing a relationship to lead to marriage.  This is all very sweet and lovely and I enjoyed the writing of the author, however I do feel the story could be better with just a few more chapters.Knowing you want to be serious about a person and not have a casual dating relationship is one with, proposing within a day of meeting just felt forced to me.  There was little exploration of Dan and Anna really getting to know one another and discovering that they really did feel love for one another and there was no understanding on if they were even really compatible.  Dan asked Anna to marry him and wanted to get married immediately with no discussion on anything really and considering how important pre-marriage counselling is to many Christian pastors I found it weird that they had no talking around what they expected out of marriage, if to have children, how many, etc.This was a small drawback and on the whole enjoyed the story