Review: Nice Book for Younger Readers
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 8, 2012
To take the issue off the table. I have seen the book referred to as a Christian Mystery. While it is true this is a pious young woman who takes her churchgoing seriously, I shouldn't think the average reader will be put off because the heroine has religion on her mind. She is just as silly, lovelorn, injudicious, reckless, frivolous, and what you will, as the more secular young maidens one comes across (well, perhaps, there is a shortage of maidens in their late twenties these days). If you can take Going My Way, Bells of St. Mary's or Father Brown, in stride, I shouldn't think you will have a problem with this.Now, as to the substance of the book, its my view that its chief audience should be the younger reader who would take to the contemporary equivalents of Penny Nichols, Nancy Drew and the like. In other words, while the heroine is supposed to be in her late twenties, the book portrays a character whose thought processes and behavior are those to be found in the books directed at teens rather than adults (at least the type which used to be, I make no claim to understanding what contemporary teens read or like). So rating it in terms of an adult novel, I see it as rather too frilly-silly-frivolous to be more than passable. On the other  hand, it is a nice, easily read, romantic, irresponsible, incredible, tale which is rather charming for its young love aspects and its complete disregard of any degree of harsh reality. Oh, yes, as you would imagine: it gets no racier than a kiss or two.