Review: Definitely frothy
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 20, 2012
I saw a comment on here that this is not a religious book and that a reader stopped as soon as she suspected "smutty sex" might be involved. I can assure everyone - NO SMUTTY SEX - in fact, no sex until the end when they're married and then it's only suggested!The plot contradictory. Way out girl buys house next to gorgeous single vicar/reverend in a small country  town. W/O girl has cat, dog and every intention of settling down, but meets dishy vicar and falls for him. Dishy vicar falls for girl. After that, the girl decides that a man of God is not for her and she should hit the road again. What she was going to do with her house and animals is not explained and why she would pass up on such a scrumptious bloke is beyond me.I won't give a spoiler, but I do think this novel could have had a much deeper thread. Hopefully, attitudes have changed even in small rural towns in the USA, but there must have been quite a harrowing transition period from when the vicar's wife was a pious, do-gooding woman who was the slave of the town to independent women who now have their own careers (vicar's are not well paid even today unless he's a Charismatic)Certainly that was the case here in Australia "back when"This novel follows the town division over the suitability of the minister's wife and its resolution. Peggy Webb has chosen to write a pleasant read which could have been so much more.I have given it four stars because it doesn't pretend to be anything more than a light romance and I do intend to read the next in the series.