Review: Better to buy the full quartet
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 29, 2014
Spitfire Sweetheart is part of the Four Weddings and a Kiss novella quartet, from four authors who are well-known for their Christian historical romances, set in the American West during the years after the US Civil War. Each of the wedding stories is a tale told to a young minister who feels compelled to break up with his lady love because she wouldn’t make a suitable minister’s wife. The stories of four weddings, related by four more experienced colleagues, are intended to make him reconsider. If you are interested in these stories, then the four-in-one "Four Weddings and a Kiss" novella collection is better value than buying the novellas one at a time.Spitfire Sweetheart by Mary Connealy is the story of eighteen-year-old Maizy MacGregor, raised by her elderly father and lacking in any feminine graces. An act of disobedience results in their neighbour, Rylan Carestens saving her life, but seriously injuring himself in the process. Maizy is prevailed upon to care for him as he recuperates.I liked and admired Maizy for her spunk and her solid work ethic, but I couldn’t say the same for Rylan. He kept putting his foot in his mouth, and I didn’t find his eventual change of attitude believable. It was just too quick.