Review: The Bride And The Family
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 12, 2012
I enjoyed reading this story.When the heroine saw the hero's ad for a wife, she was in that time in life where she can honestly ask 'what else could she lose?' She has a kind and big heart ready to be filled and she's hoping, with people who will value her back. I admire her more when she came through her initial struggle against her prospective family, the rugged land and living, and since this is a romance the unwanted rival.The hero is presented as your typical male character. Widow, with children to raise, struggling farm, and his share of family issue. I wanted to hit him during their firt meeting since he is acting like a typical man towards a woman they consider not pretty while the heroine is twisted in knots for being in a very strange sorrounding for the first time. But like I said, he is just a man.I loved that they started their relationship in honesty and that the progress in their story is paced just right. The issues they came against are as true then as it is now between starting couples. The insecurities, family dramas, adjustments, and of course tragedies that can either break the family or make them stronger.Overall, the story distinguished itself for me by the plot, a few unique twists, and mostly by the strength of the heroine's character. Sometimes a tear-jerker, especially towards the end, and sometimes funny. Even the couples' bedroom activities are hot without being graphic. Mostly, it covers relationship between family members, the good times and the bad, and getting to know each other.