Review: Amusing and Cute
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 14, 2013
Novella length was the perfect length for this story.It's short, simple and sweet - Patience has a lot of trouble living up to her name, especially when it comes to having a gentleman ask her to dance.  Any gentleman other than her cousin.  Unfortunately her father caused a major scandal when he came home six months after her mother died with a new Indian wife in tow, with a baby that made it obvious he hadn't been faithful to her mother while they'd been in India.  Patience is too angry with the situation to countenance staying at home any longer; she wants out and marriage is her only means of doing it.  So she convinces her cousin to place a bet that will put a man in a compromising position with her.What she doesn't count upon is what happens if she starts to have feelings for the man...This is not a complex plot line but it is a fairly enjoyable one.  The fact that it's not complex only means that the length of it works; there's time to develop the characters so that their actions are believable rather than trying to pack too much action into a short story.  Overall I found it enjoyable and entertaining; a rather sweet little story that left me feeling rather happy at the end of it.