Review: Simply Romance
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 11, 2012
A CHRISTIAN COUGAR by Vanessa Gray Bartal is the story of Mare Welsh, a young widow with a small daughter. A new, single youth pastor comes to work at her church, and, as you can guess, the rest of the story is their romance.I had several problems with this book. One is that it is a typical smoochy romance and there’s not much more plot than that.My other problem was, oddly enough, Mare’s mother. Her mother is nasty, always looking for the bad in people, especially in her own daughter. This character really hit me as not right, maybe not even a Christian, definitely not Spirit-led, and she even spoiled the sappy romance for me. Indeed, although the characters all go to church, no one seems to read his Bible or seek God’s leadership, even those in church leadership.A CHRISTIAN COUGAR is well written, sometimes very humorous, and it keeps you reading, even though the plot is extremely simple and the outcome more than predictable. Not my favorite, though.