Review: "Short and Sweet"
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 20, 2013
You've heard that expression, "short and sweet", right? Well, that describes this book, the first of three in this Hawaiian series by Cynthia Hickey. I loved her series about Summer Meadows, and her candy store "Summer Confections", because it was a mystery. This series though was not a mystery, just a short sweet romance. I gave this four stars only because I feel it could have been a longer book, with more happenings before the characters fell for each other. I would have liked more events, more interaction, but the action that was in the book was good; vandalism, snobbery, stalking, attempted murder, just to mention a few. All these along with steamy kisses, jealousy, and brooding looks. I really enjoyed how the author gave the readers the thoughts of the characters. It helps us figure out why the characters acted as they did. But just the same, I felt the characters would have been fuller if the author had used more events for us to delve deeper into the personality of the characters. I realize this is a novella, but I wish it would have been longer so the characters could have been fleshed out more, and we would have lived and experienced more events along with them. Not just learn what they were thinking so quickly. I feel since this is a trilogy, and there are three Samson sisters, that the next two books will be about the romances of each sister. I'll be ordering the next novella, just to see if I am correct.