Review: Excellent Story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 31, 2013
I'm never really sure what to say about a fiction book.  I mean, you know what it's about - that's in the description.  And you don't want details about the story - that would spoil it.  An assessment of the story's elements is, then, the obvious remaining choice, so here you go:The overall story is excellently written.  It flowed smoothly, and kept me reading, wanting more.The characters are quite compelling.Despite dealing with some tough times, this really reads like a "feel-good" story with the "perfect" happy ending.  That's not good or bad, it just depends on your purpose in reading.  I happen to like a feel-good story when I'm settling down with fiction, but if you have other reasons for reading, you might find it bordering on trite.In that vein, I felt that my "willing suspension of disbelief" was stretched a little near the beginning - that the jump to the idea that marrying Jess was the best or only solution was a bit abrupt.  It wasn't completely unreasonable, though, and the remainder of the story worked for me.  (Historically, people really HAVE married for expedience like this, and then fallen in love.)  The rest of the plot was winding enough to be interesting, but not so winding as to leave me wondering what the author was thinking.As another reviewer noted, there were some places where the wording was a little...glitchy.  It was always so obvious what was intended, however, that my brain skimmed right over most of them and they didn't really interfere with the story for me.Now to buy #2...