Review: It's okay
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 23, 2014
I really liked the premise and the first handful of chapters were engaging the characters interesting. In fact, I got weepy at least twice at the beginning when Hattie's baby and Dad die. I thought I was in for an emotional rollercoaster. Once Hattie is retrieved by Jackson it just got repetitive. A romance never formed. Really don't know how one would have happened with all the attention on changing the baby and nursing him. We also needed to know all of the ingredients that went into most meals. Or how the spices were rescued. Or how much laundry was done. Or how to make pickles and toys from scratch. Then there was the chicken coop and garden. You get the point. While I do find these things interesting to know, they shouldn't overwhelm the romance. The baby was the point of them being together in the first place, but even he got in the way of the adults working out their demons. They were forced (in the most eyeball rolling way possible) into getting married and suddenly they have loved each other for some time - yet they were rarely together. Didn't dislike it, so I may give this author another go at some point.