Review: The 3rd star is a stretch....
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 29, 2013
This book ran on a bit long, but it was an ok read.  I enjoy the premise (and there have been several 'marriage by mistake' themed kindle offerings lately), but this is not the best of those.  Usually the marriage by mistake theme is founded on a drunken night in Vegas, or a last-minute rescue of a damsel expecting to marry some slug who has led her on for years.  This story dredges up a hypnosis.  That theme is old but has not been used in a long while.  I especially like the hypnotist, but he is perhaps the most admirable of the males in this tale.  And he's nine years old.  That's a fun plot twist, but only if you get into the rest of the story and realize who he's dealing with.The writer leaves us thinking that wealthy men are mean-spirited cheapskates who have very dim views of the female of the species. For this reason they tend to swap out wives and girlfriends with alarming regularity, leaving children confused as to who's in charge. There is of course the good-hearted chorus girl, who is smarter than all the college educated CEO types and wannabes (and one patriarch who most decidedly doesn't wannabe).  Taken all together, this is a story which tries for a little originality and falls short.  Still, it is free.  And with so many reviews its writer can boast '4 stars in over 100 Amazon reviews!'  Not that she does, but I begin to see why writers give away their work....