Review: Review of Momentary Marriage by Scarlett Jensen
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 22, 2014
Carol Rose is an award-winning author of about 20 books of contemporary romance. She is skilled with extra-ordinary command of vocabulary and story-telling. This story is set in New York.In Contemporary Marriage, the author overplays the inter-relationships, entangles the characters with almost always some predictable consequences which lash the surprise element.The hero, a erotic melting pot, powerful and handsome wants a solid family after a failed marriage. He fears to be trapped with the wrong woman. He works out a plan to reserve his ideal wife. Goes into a marriage of agreement of one year, appears manipulative and is deceitful out of fear. He wants to win the fair princess without risking himself.She, doubts marriage could last a lifetime and avoids to commit. Her parents' failed marriage, her mother's multiple marriages bringing several stepfathers, made her "childhood an emotional revolving door." That caused her many misconceptions about marriage. She is perceived as a wounded woman defensive against men of the world. She is locked-up in fear and doubt. For one year she accepts the proposal for her secret end and hence a momentary marriage.The forces of tension seem to stretch out the story without lending it significant depth. Tension between the couple is felt right through the story. Warmth and tenderness is masked.In the story you have divorce, engagements, marriages, intimacy, lust, frienships, fights, breakups, heartaches, fears and cries. Love is illusive within the set traps the characters create for themselves.Some scenes are masterfully done. The author succeeds fully to bring the characters' body-language across in words. In spite of the wonderful writing style, the reader tends to lose interest in drawn out dialogues and descriptions. Except for the loves scenes, the reader is not easily carried away. The book is unnecessarily too long.Scarlett Jensen author of The Angel with Burnt Wings