Review: Yes she's courted, and than eventually wed
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 7, 2014
This book is book 2 in a series, which I realized when I bought it, and you don’t need to read the first book to understand what’s going on in this book, they give enough background on the main characters. It works as a standalone.The writing level is decent, about a 3/4 out of 5 stars for writing. The author probably won’t be winning any awards, but at least it didn’t annoy me and was well edited. The storyline is a 3 out of 5, it was really slow in the beginning. And just to point out, the title is ‘Never Courted, Suddenly Wed’, but the heroine, Sophie, is courted, by 2 men, for most the book, which in the storyline is approx 2 weeks. Than the Hero, Christopher, compromises her, and another week later they are wed. When they finally do wed it’s at 70% through the book. So I wouldn’t say she was never courted, and quite the opposite of “suddenly” wed!The first 70% of the book drags on, there are some funny scenes, and I did laugh, but it got a little tedious. You really learn a lot of their past as childhood nemesis’s and ALL the stuff they did to each other. Though Christopher was 14 and Sophie was 7, why would he have cared back then? Anyway, once they are wed everything seems lovely, everyone is happy, they are in the country enjoying their wedding trip, than Christopher’s dad arrives, he stirs up some trouble and Sophie runs away. This is at just over 82% through the book. Christopher follows her and they make up very quickly because the book than ends.Christopher turns out to be dyslexic and it would have been nice to spend some time on how Sophie would help him deal with it, it could have been a great bridge for them to cross together. Also it was once mentioned that while he couldn’t read because the words didn’t always make sense (dyslexia), it says he’s always been great with numbers, his dad being in debt, it would have been great if we could have seen how brilliant he really was when it came to accounting, instead of being told in one short blob in the book. Also throughout the whole book Sophie’s brother is made to look like, and they even refer to him, as a “pompous ass”, than at the very end he says how he cares for her, and how he even rejected several marriage offers because he wanted her to be happy in marriage, what!?! So out of character for him!!! And Sophie’s mother was no better, she was always pushing her needs above her daughters than when Sophie gets married she acts so uncharacteristically, I wasn’t buying it on either accounts.Overall a decent read. Not the best, not the worst I’ve read, falls right into the mediocre level, hence 3 stars. I’d only recommend if it’s on sale and you want a light, easy read, it does offer some humorous scenes in the beginning but brace yourself for a quick wrap up as the ending.