Review: Not a happy romance
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 13, 2014
This book made me cry at the end, and not out of happiness.  Perhaps if it weren't so short, and the characters had been able to be developed more, I would have been more able to accept the HEA, but as it is written it seems completely out of place.The entire story seems to take place over three, perhaps four weeks.  Our hero is smitten with the most beautiful girl around, but accepts that she's out of his league.  When he meets her aunt one night, he realizes she's attractive and starts immediately courting her instead.He's a bit shy and immature, and he dotes on his 11 year old sister to the point where he pretty much lets her run his life.  I didn't see him as being a man-child because he seems to recognize this and allow it out of affection, rather than actually be dependent on her.SPOILER ALERTThe younger sister has been ill her whole life and dies, and grief is the catalyst that brings about their joy in each other's love.I'm sorry, but if someone's in mourning, while admitting you love him might help him feel less despondent, perhaps now is not the best time to propose and suddenly be ecstatic with each other.Also, it was raining the first time Emily walked to their house, and Anne saw a rainbow.  It was raining again when she walked over to confess her feelings, and I think if you're going to have them receive Anne's blessing somehow anyway, why NOT add a rainbow there?