Review: Cute Story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 5, 2013
Faith Conrad has a low self-image. She doesn't think she's ever really succeeded at anything. Her father left the family when she was five. She had to drop out of high school without graduating, when her mother became seriously sick, and her two younger twin sisters pull against her. When their mother dies, the twins take off, and Faith doesn't even know where they are. She does have her boss, Merle, who has given her a job as a photographer and has tried to look after her. She meets his nephew, Shane Zadopec, the new park ranger, when she gets her foot wedged in a rock crevice. He prods her to do things, like take her GED exam, and meddles where he shouldn't, but he's oh so handsome. At times she thinks he's perfect, but, at other times he's the most infuriating man she's ever met.This was a cute story. The characters weren't perfect, but I could sympathize with them. There were only a few mistakes, like "Would you join Shane and I." "Womens" was used where the possessive was needed, and there was at least one obviously missing comma. After Faith meets Shane, she repeats that she thinks he's there to take over her job over and over again. There were several awkward sentences, especially when trying to use some long or obscure vocabulary words. Faith was mistakenly named as Merle's niece once, and Faith and Shane often talked like immature teen-agers, but Shane was thirty and Faith twenty-something. Also, I've had a lot of contacts with hospitals, and I've never seen one that let a dismissed patient walk out. They always insist on taking them out in a wheelchair. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the story. I debated on whether to give it a 4 or a 5, so I gave it a 4.5, which rounded up to a five. I do think it was better than a four. I enjoyed the clean romance with Christian touches, and appreciate it was labeled as such, so I'd know.