Review: Sweet Love Story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 11, 2012
Overall, this was an enjoyable book--a little too sugary in places, but I appreciated the clean read. There was not enough tension in the plot to warrant a five, however. The incidents which happened were quickly resolved and there was little concern about what would happen to the main characters for long. The faith element was strong, but I was surprised pronouns referring to God was not capitalized in this Christian novel. The acceptable customs seemed much too modern for a book set in 1880. Amelia would have not been allowed to go off with Paul alone time and time again. Her reputation would have been ruined. She would not have allowed him to thoroughly kiss her on the mouth, either. It was rare to have a white or ivory wedding dress then, because they must be worn again, and white stained too easily.The book also had some scanning problems that was not corrected. It had a few grammatical errors, like "If things had turned out different." "Lye" was used instead of "lay," and "taught" instead of "taut." This was still a light, easy, clean read that I would recommend.