Review: Charming novella with bit of spice
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 1, 2013
Lyndi Lamont's "How To Woo... A Reluctant Bride" was a surprisingly nice and unpretentious novella about an arranged marriage. The hero pursues his fiancé almost from the start, and uses tips from the Kama Sutra to court the heroine and later in the marriage bed. The heroine has some unconscious prejudices about the hero, being from trade and with mixed blood, but his kind gestures teach her how lucky she really is. There are several love scenes after the marriage, all of which are sensual but tastefully done. The conflict lasts just long enough to tie everything up neatly at the end without any angst. Overall, the novella was particularly short - with a max location of less than 800 - but still manages to pack in a romance that is believable, spicy, and rather sweet.