Review: Lovely story, and tricky, to boot!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 2, 2013
I gave this an extra star because it is so difficult to craft a satisfying short story.  Often you'll see reviewers moan, 'It was too short' or 'too rushed', or words to that effect. This writer wasted no time setting her scenes, drawing characters, laying out her plot.  She wisely kept it to the basics: the wooing and winning of the wary widow. The hero had no great angst to overcome, so there was only one reluctant party in the dance. She paints the hero as a practical businessman, so it is not so quesstionable tht he would see the woman he wanted, decide to get her and work his way through the problems involved.  She does a nice job of showing his businesslike side, without having him seem to treat the heroine as an acquiquisition. Other characters are sketched in, and things happen, without their being an imbalance of attention on the romance of the two figures, and the life and action going on around them.  Thoughtfully crafted and well executed.