Review: review of winning a bride
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 14, 2013
I really liked this story despite it being a novella.  The story is quite simple two people from different backgrounds and stations falling for each other but yet feel the same inside.  The story seemed at first slow but definitely picked up speed and had several interesting plot twists even with it short length.  The heroine and hero were great and very well-developed too.Josephine the heroine is such a wonderful spirited character I couldn’t help but like her.  Even though she seems to laugh most easily and enjoy life with some unpleasant things happening to her.  Josephine struggles to be a proper lady and all the constraints that come with it.  She attempts each time to be a lady but fails miserably yet she also rebels against it too.  On the other hand the hero Will took a while for me to even like as a character.  I didn’t see what Josephine saw in him or even their attraction until he kisses her even though they meet secretly.  He just seemed so harsh at first to Josephine and seemed to spite everyone else that I didn’t understand him at all.  It seemed he had insurmountable odds Josephine’s parents, her up-coming arranged marriage plus the demands on him to prove himself to everyone including Josephine who could care less about any of that.  Everything seemed to be working against him to even pursue and win her hand in marriage just because of who he is.  I think the one thing I found about Will that I admired was that yes he could be mean to Josephine but he really did love her and didn’t try to change who she was.Ms. Jade Lee even had some other great side characters in the novella that were also well-developed too.  Even though I had a hard time liking Will’s character I still enjoyed the story and found hardly any spelling errors in it. It was well-written and thought out that it was a joy to read.  That is the reason for the four star rating.  I will read another book by Ms. Lee.