Review: Decent
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 27, 2013
This novella is written in the first person, and is told from hero's point of view. Because Matthew, the hero, is narrating the story, the reader gets insight into his thoughts and feelings, but are left in the dark as to Dawn's. Consequently, I felt like I was only getting half the story and couldn't really get into it. Plus, there was very little actual romance--and what little romance there was seemed to be secondary to whatever else was going on.The heroine has had a hard life, what with being kidnapped by Indians, then years later being returned to the care of her father, who treats her cruelly--he tries to beat, what he calls, her "Indian ways" out of her.  She could have been a really sympathetic character, but I didn't really get to know her, so I felt only mildly moved by her plight.Because this is a fairly short story, only just over 100 pages, the plot quickly progress to its conclusion. It's a decent read, but only just. The story held my interest, but I found it only mildly entertaining. It certainly didn't inspire me to read any of the other books in the series....though I did recently download "The Happiest Man In The Territory" when Amazon was offering it for free before I read this one. After reading this book; however, I'm not sure that I will read that one.