Review: Sweet, Clean Romance
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 22, 2013
Rachel Edwards is a children's author and illustrator, who feels she's a disappointment to her family, especially her mother. When she's called home to help talk her 82-year-old, eccentric grandmother out of getting married, she dreads it. However, Mason, her best friend will be going, too, and he always helped make things right for her. Surprisingly, she meets Jake, a handsome newcomer, who looks like Rachel's dream come true, but things start getting confusing. Mason and she seem uncomfortable with each other all of a sudden, and when he's with Gina, a pretty red-head who works at his camp, Rachel has to hide her jealousy. What's going on? Aren't she and Mason just friends?This is a sweet, clean romance. It seemed a little awkward in places, but it was still charming. There were a couple of scanning problems, and pronouns for God weren't capitalized, which is unusual in Christian fiction, but the novel was well worth reading. I was a little disappointed with the ending. The main story ended fine, but others were left hanging. I especially wanted to know what happened with Luke, Rachel's younger brother, and his former fiancée, Alice. Philip, Rachel's older brother, also needed to settle his estrangement from the family. There are no other books by this author now, but could there be one or more in the making? I prefer to have nothing left hanging or unanswered in the books I read. The author shouldn't make problems seem significant that she/he isn't going to solve in that book. Because of this issue, this book was barely a five for me, but it was still more of a five than a four.