Review: Much Better Than the Ratings Show
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 9, 2014
Nick Cairn is working on his doctoral dissertation in psychology. His project is to study love and marriage scientifically and determine what maintains the forever kind of love. At the same time, he’s pursuing his own happy-ever-after and is engaged. But his fiancée seems to become more insecure in their relationship and wants to keep moving the wedding date up, while Nick would prefer to keep the original date so his school work will be finished. To add to the problem, she seems to have a number of male friends and Nick’s new lab assistant draws his attention in ways he’s not comfortable with. Nick is determined to live up to his commitments and make his pending marriage work, but the closer his marriage and doctorate completion get, the faster the problems seem to come.Because of the number of low ratings, I hesitated to read this book, but I’m so glad I did. I found it delightful, clean, and thoroughly entertaining. Nick can be bungling at times, but he has many good qualities and is quite loveable, and the story held my interest throughout. I found only a couple of mistakes, like “for Ella and I,” and “started” for “startled.” Nick told Moire to begin work on Friday, but she showed up on Wednesday “right on time.” I also thought the slapstick scenes where Ella was chasing Nick too over-the-top and detracted rather than added anything to the book. However, I loved this novel and will be looking for more by Stan Crowe.